Hanby Building Elementary School

Located at 56 S State St, in Westerville, Ohio, Hanby Building Elementary School is an average-sized elementary-level community that enrolls 363 students (grades 1 through 5), part of Westerville City.

Within Westerville City, which oversees 24 schools and 14,589 students, Hanby Building Elementary School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Hanby Building Elementary School logs that White students make up the majority at 67%. Beyond that, the school logs 15% Black, 11% multiracial, 4% Hispanic, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 59% White, putting the school's mix noticeably more White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.9:1 average. Roughly 21% of students at Hanby Building Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Franklin County runs at roughly 41%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Hanby Building Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 81.0%, the actual is 73.4%, a residual of -7.6 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Franklin County indicate median household income runs about $75,176, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across Franklin County's 402 public schools (combined enrollment of about 195,359 students), Hanby Building Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Emerson Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Hanby Building Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Hanby Building Elementary School at 5th of 9; the average score across the group is 73.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Hanby Building Elementary School has rose 44%, going from 252 students in 2018 to 363 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked up from 58% to 67% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 21.9:1 in 2018 to 19.4:1 today.

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