Griffith Thomas Elementary School

Set in Dublin, Ohio, Griffith Thomas Elementary School is a mid-tier elementary campus, part of Dublin City. It instructs 552 students across grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 404 students per school, that is 37% bigger than typical.

Dublin City runs 23 schools in total, collectively educating 16,967 students. Griffith Thomas Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Griffith Thomas Elementary School reports that the most-represented group is White (51%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder reads as 20% Asian, 10% Hispanic, 9% Black, 9% multiracial. By comparison, Franklin County as a whole is about 59% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Griffith Thomas Elementary School logs 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.9:1, putting Griffith Thomas Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 37% of students at Griffith Thomas Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, Griffith Thomas Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 75.0%; this one delivers 77.9%.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Franklin County put median household income runs about $75,176, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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 Griffith Thomas Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Heart of Ohio Classical Academy, around 1.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Griffith Thomas Elementary School. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Griffith Thomas Elementary School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 69.6%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 31%: 798 students in 2018 compared to 552 in 2025. Asian enrollment moved from 38% to 20% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 46.9:1 in 2018 to 19.0:1 in 2025.

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