Enrollment
363
Elementary
DISTRICT 421 · STATE 404
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WESTERVILLE CITY·NCES 390450400130
Hanby Building Elementary School
56 S State St, Westerville, OH 43081 · (614) 797-7100 · Franklin County
GRADES 01–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL363 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 37% of Ohio public elementary schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- FThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Ohio public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
19.4:1
19 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 19.5:1 · STATE 17.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
21%
75 students
DISTRICT 44% · STATE 43%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 1 | 53 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 52 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 87 | 24% |
| Grade 4 | 81 | 22% |
| Grade 5 | 90 | 25% |
This year's 1st grade class (53) is 41% smaller than its 5th grade class (90).
Student demographics
51%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 66% · STATE 54% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
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Ohio's State Tests 2024-25 . % Proficient or AboveEnglish Language Arts
75.5%
OH avg 59.8% . -10.7pp since 2021
Math
75.0%
OH avg 56.1% . -5.5pp since 2021
What this means: On the Ohio's State Tests, Ohio's statewide test, about 75 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 75 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Ohio schools, those numbers are about 60 and 56. Reading and writing scores are down about 11 points since 2021, while math scores are down about 5 points.
Ohio's State Tests results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 75.5% | 75.0% |
| 2023-24 | 84.4% | 69.5% |
| 2022-23 | 85.5% | 74.5% |
| 2021-22 | 86.2% | 80.5% |
% Proficient or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Ohio's State Tests. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
73.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
81.0%
based on OH schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-7.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 73% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 81% typical for Ohio schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Ohio's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Hanby Building Elementary School
Hanby Building Elementary School's state test result (73.4% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hanby Building Elementary School this school | 363 | 20.7% | 73.4% |
| Northfield Elementary School Northfield | 348 | 18.4% | 87.4% |
| Jefferson Elementary School Gahanna | 437 | 24.5% | 81.2% |
| Ledgeview Elementary School Macedonia | 433 | 14.8% | 82.0% |
| Robert Frost Elementary School Westerville | 420 | 26.7% | 79.9% |
| Alcott Elementary School Westerville | 537 | 22.0% | 90.6% |
Matched among Ohio elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Hanby Building Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Ohio | In Franklin County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 73.4% | #393 of 673 | #38 of 81 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 75.0% | #517 of 1,569 ▲ 117 | #37 of 199 ▲ 12 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 75.5% | #428 of 1,569 ▼ 221 | #37 of 199 ▼ 17 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -8.1pp | #78 of 1,514 | #12 of 194 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 363 | #1,004 of 1,808 | #126 of 225 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 19.4:1 | #1,184 of 1,582 | #125 of 192 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 51.1% | #535 of 1,590 | #137 of 193 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 20.7% | #629 of 767 | #67 of 85 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +44.0% | #71 of 561 | #5 of 52 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
363
+108 (+42%) vs 2020
-6% since 2000-01, when it was 387
Student : Teacher
19.4:1
was 23.2:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 363 | 18.7 | 19.4:1 | 21% (75) |
| 2023-24 | 353 | 19.7 | 17.9:1 | 22% (79) |
| 2022-23 | 358 | 18.7 | 19.1:1 | 17% (62) |
| 2020-21 | 255 | 11 | 23.2:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 252 | 11.5 | 21.9:1 | 29% (73) |
| 2015-16 | 284 | 13 | 21.9:1 | 30% (85) |
| 2010-11 | 353 | 19 | 18.6:1 | 12% (43) |
| 2000-01 | 387 | 23 | 16.8:1 | 9% (34) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Hanby Building Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 44% (252 to 363); teachers up 63% (11.5 to 18.7).
About Hanby Building Elementary School
Hanby Building Elementary School is a medium-sized elementary school in Westerville, Ohio, one of the schools in Westerville City. A federal count lists 363 students at the school, in grades 1 through 5.
Westerville City is responsible for 24 schools, Hanby Building Elementary School included, with 14,589 students in all.
Roughly 67% of students at Hanby Building Elementary School are White. Other groups include 15% Black, 11% multiracial, 4% Hispanic, and 3% Asian. By comparison, Franklin County residents are about 59% White. Hanby Building Elementary School's diversity index is 51%, against a US figure of 70%.
Federal data list 18.7 full-time-equivalent teachers at Hanby Building Elementary School in 2024-25, for a ratio of 19.4:1. That is higher than the 17.9:1 average for elementary schools in Ohio. The lunch program counts 21% of students at Hanby Building Elementary School as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. Public schools in Franklin County average 41%.
Measured against Ohio public elementary schools, Hanby Building Elementary School receives a C+. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
Hanby Building Elementary School posts an average proficiency rate on state tests of 73.4%, compared with a predicted 81.0%. It is not in the top or bottom 10% of Ohio schools on BeatsExpectations.
Franklin County has about 1,333,048 residents, and the median household income is $75,176, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 42% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 11%. In all, Franklin County has 402 public schools and roughly 195,359 students.
Nearest public school: Emerson Elementary School, about 0.2 miles away. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. Ranked by average proficiency, Hanby Building Elementary School places 5th out of 9 schools in its immediate area.
The NCES locale for Hanby Building Elementary School is Suburb: Large, which covers schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Hanby Building Elementary School enrolled 255 in 2020-21 and 363 in 2024-25. Changes in grade configuration can produce shifts of this size. There were fewer students per teacher in 2024-25 (19.4:1) than in 2020-21 (23.2:1).
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Franklin County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,333,048
Census ACS
Median income
$75,176
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
42%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
402
195,359 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Westerville City
- Westerville-North High SchoolHigh · 1,587 students
- Westerville-South High SchoolHigh · 1,509 students
- Westerville Central High SchoolHigh · 1,485 students
- Minerva Park Middle SchoolMiddle · 753 students
- Genoa Middle SchoolMiddle · 702 students
- Walnut Springs Middle SchoolMiddle · 613 students
Other schools in Westerville
- Westerville-North High SchoolHigh · 1,587 students
- Westerville-South High SchoolHigh · 1,509 students
- Westerville Central High SchoolHigh · 1,485 students
- Cornerstone Academy Community SchoolCombined · 1,192 students
- Genoa Middle SchoolMiddle · 702 students
- Walnut Springs Middle SchoolMiddle · 613 students
Nearby schools
- Emerson Elementary School0.2 mi · 254
- Whittier Elementary School0.3 mi · 367
- Blendon Middle School0.5 mi · 609
- Westerville-South High School0.6 mi · 1,509
- Cherrington Elementary School1.4 mi · 338
- Mark Twain Elementary School1.5 mi · 398
Frequently asked questions
About Hanby Building Elementary SchoolHow large is Hanby Building Elementary School?
Hanby Building Elementary School enrolls approximately 363 students in grades 01-05.
What age range does Hanby Building Elementary School serve?
Hanby Building Elementary School serves students from grade 01 through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Hanby Building Elementary School?
Approximately 19.4:1 students per teacher at Hanby Building Elementary School.
How diverse is Hanby Building Elementary School?
Hanby Building Elementary School reports a student body of 67% White, 4% Hispanic, 15% Black, 3% Asian, 11% Two or more.
What district is Hanby Building Elementary School in?
Hanby Building Elementary School is part of Westerville City.
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