Hickory Ridge Elementary School

Located at 4628 Hickory Ridge Ave, in Brunswick, Ohio, Hickory Ridge Elementary School is a mid-sized primary school that instructs 391 students (grades K through 5), operated by Brunswick City.

Across the 8 schools in Brunswick City (5,931 students total), Hickory Ridge Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Hickory Ridge Elementary School shows that 85% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder consists of 6% multiracial, 6% Hispanic.

On the income-and-resources front, Hickory Ridge Elementary School lists 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.9:1 average. An estimated 24% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, Hickory Ridge Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 79.7%; this one delivers 81.7%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Medina County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $94,968 per year, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. In all, Medina County runs 49 public schools (combined enrollment of about 25,243 students), of which Hickory Ridge Elementary School is one.

Brunswick Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Hickory Ridge Elementary School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 77.2%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 9%: 432 students in 2018 compared to 391 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 90% to 85% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 18.0:1 in 2018 to 17.0:1 in 2025.

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