Highland Elementary School

Highland Elementary School operates as a heavily attended elementary-level community in Sylvania, Ohio, run under Sylvania Schools. Current enrollment sits at 610 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 51% larger than the typical public school in Ohio, which averages around 404 students.

Within Sylvania Schools, which oversees 13 schools and 7,699 students, Highland Elementary School is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Highland Elementary School records that White students make up the majority at 80%. Other groups include 9% multiracial, 5% Hispanic, 4% Black. By comparison, Lucas County as a whole is about 68% White, so the school skews noticeably more White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Highland Elementary School has 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.5:1. The state averages about 17.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 15% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Lucas County (around 44%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Highland Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 83.2%, the actual is 89.1%, a residual of +5.9 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Lucas County put median household income runs about $62,224, 29% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. In all, Lucas County runs 143 public schools (combined enrollment of about 73,839 students), of which Highland Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Sylvania Northview High School, roughly 1.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Highland Elementary School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 77.8%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Highland Elementary School has decreased 14%, going from 712 students in 2018 to 610 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 87% to 80% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 23.0:1 in 2018 to 18.5:1 today.

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