Goshen Lane Elementary School

Goshen Lane Elementary School is one of the medium-sized elementary schools in Gahanna, Ohio, part of Gahanna-Jefferson City, with 464 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.

Gahanna-Jefferson City comprises 13 schools with combined enrollment of 8,290 students; Goshen Lane Elementary School is among them.

On demographics, Goshen Lane Elementary School lists that the largest single group is Black at 46%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school reports 26% White, 10% Asian, 9% multiracial, 9% Hispanic. By comparison, Franklin County as a whole is about 23% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.9:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 52% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Franklin County runs at roughly 41%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Goshen Lane Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 69.2%, the actual is 60.3%, a residual of -8.9 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Franklin County indicate median household earnings sit near $75,176, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Franklin County runs 402 public schools (combined enrollment of about 195,359 students), of which Goshen Lane Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Early Childhood Education and Family Center, around 0.9 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Goshen Lane Elementary School. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Goshen Lane Elementary School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 69.7%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Goshen Lane Elementary School's enrollment has edged down 6% since 2018, when it stood at 494 (now 464). The White share of enrollment shrank from 44% to 26% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 20.6:1 in 2018 to 17.9:1 in 2025.

On the community side, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.