Hiawatha Elementary School

Set in Toledo, Ohio, Hiawatha Elementary School is a close-knit elementary school, overseen by Washington Local. It enrolls 309 students across grades K through 6. By comparison, Ohio's public schools average about 404 students each, so Hiawatha Elementary School sits 24% below that benchmark.

Washington Local comprises 11 schools with combined enrollment of 6,661 students; Hiawatha Elementary School is among them.

In terms of who attends, Hiawatha Elementary School reports that 62% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school reports 15% Hispanic, 13% multiracial, 9% Black.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Hiawatha Elementary School has 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 20.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.9:1, putting Hiawatha Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 61% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of Lucas County's rate of about 44%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Hiawatha Elementary School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 65.6%; this one comes in at 55.0%, -10.6 points off the demographic line.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Lucas County put median household earnings sit near $62,224, roughly 29% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. In all, Lucas County runs 143 public schools (combined enrollment of about 73,839 students), of which Hiawatha Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Jefferson Junior High School, roughly 0.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Hiawatha Elementary School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 56.1%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 14%: 359 students in 2018 compared to 309 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 72% to 62%.

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