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Which teacher or staff member at Highland Park Elementary School deserves more recognition?
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Enrollment
475
Elementary
DISTRICT 450 · STATE 404
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SOUTH-WESTERN CITY·NCES 390448001664
Highland Park Elementary School
2600 Cameron St, Grove City, OH 43123 · (614) 801-8200 · Franklin County
GRADES KG–04ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL475 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 76% 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.
- A-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- AThree-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
19.6:1
24 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 20.4:1 · STATE 17.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
75%
354 students
DISTRICT 66% · STATE 43%
Community
1
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 93 | 20% |
| Grade 1 | 106 | 22% |
| Grade 2 | 107 | 23% |
| Grade 3 | 93 | 20% |
| Grade 4 | 76 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (93) is 22% larger than its 4th grade class (76).
Student demographics
62%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 67% · 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
Test scores
Ohio's State Tests 2024-25 . % Proficient or AboveEnglish Language Arts
63.8%
OH avg 59.8% . +9.0pp since 2021
Math
74.0%
OH avg 56.1% . +16.3pp since 2021
What this means: On the Ohio's State Tests, Ohio's statewide test, about 64 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 74 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Ohio schools, those numbers are about 60 and 56. Reading and writing scores are up about 9 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 16 points.
Ohio's State Tests results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 63.8% | 74.0% |
| 2023-24 | 58.3% | 72.0% |
| 2022-23 | 53.6% | 62.1% |
| 2021-22 | 54.8% | 57.7% |
% 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
67.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
60.7%
based on OH schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+6.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 67% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 61% 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 Highland Park Elementary School
Highland Park Elementary School's state test result (67.0% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Highland Park Elementary School this school | 475 | 74.5% | 67.0% |
| James A Harmon Elementary School Grove City | 589 | 69.6% | 54.2% |
| Silver Creek Elementary School Toledo | 679 | 72.9% | 43.8% |
| Holloway Elementary School Holland | 341 | 73.3% | 61.0% |
| Dorr Street Elementary School Toledo | 392 | 65.8% | 52.3% |
| Meadowvale Elementary School Toledo | 510 | 63.7% | 54.0% |
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 Highland Park Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Ohio | In Franklin County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 67.0% | #506 of 673 | #50 of 81 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 74.0% | #543 of 1,569 ▲ 21 | #39 of 199 ▲ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 63.8% | #796 of 1,569 ▲ 209 | #64 of 199 ▲ 20 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +12.7pp | #156 of 1,514 | #29 of 194 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 475 | #569 of 1,808 | #73 of 225 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 19.6:1 | #1,221 of 1,582 | #129 of 192 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 61.6% | #340 of 1,590 | #84 of 193 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 74.5% | #42 of 767 | #8 of 85 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -15.8% | #395 of 992 | #70 of 135 |
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
475
+41 (+9%) vs 2020
0% since 1990-91, when it was 477
Student : Teacher
19.6:1
was 19.7:1
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 | 475 | 24.2 | 19.6:1 | 75% (354) |
| 2023-24 | 467 | 24.2 | 19.3:1 | 76% (353) |
| 2022-23 | 439 | 21.7 | 20.3:1 | 68% (298) |
| 2020-21 | 434 | 22 | 19.7:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 564 | 27.7 | 20.4:1 | 65% (368) |
| 2015-16 | 497 | 24 | 20.7:1 | 57% (284) |
| 2010-11 | 446 | 19 | 23.5:1 | 48% (215) |
| 2000-01 | 704 | 25 | 28.2:1 | 21% (148) |
| 1990-91 | 477 | 21 | 22.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Highland Park Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 16% (564 to 475); teachers down 13% (27.7 to 24.2).
About Highland Park Elementary School
Highland Park Elementary School is a public elementary school in Grove City, Ohio. Federal data show 475 students enrolled in kindergarten through 4 in 2024-25.
Highland Park Elementary School is run by South-Western City, whose 33 schools enroll 21,873 students.
The largest group at Highland Park Elementary School is White students, at 57%. Enrollment also includes 18% Black, 13% Hispanic, and 12% multiracial. Franklin County residents are about 59% White, a similar share. The diversity index for Highland Park Elementary School is 62%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Staffing at Highland Park Elementary School comes to 24.2 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 19.6:1. By comparison, the average for elementary schools in Ohio is 17.9:1. Highland Park Elementary School counts 75% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That is higher than the 41% average for public schools in Franklin County.
Among Ohio public elementary schools, Highland Park Elementary School outscored 76%, which works out to an A- on the allk12 Grade.
Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the BeatsExpectations model predicts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 60.7% for Highland Park Elementary School. The school posts 67.0%, 6.4 points above the prediction.
In the surrounding county, Franklin County, median household income comes to about $75,176, about 42% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 11% of residents are in poverty. The county has 402 public schools and about 195,359 students.
About 0.7 miles separate Highland Park Elementary School from the closest public school, Richard Avenue Elementary School. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Highland Park Elementary School ranks 3rd of 7 among nearby schools on average proficiency, with 67.0% against a local average of 64.6%.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Suburb: Large: in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Over 4 years, enrollment increased by 41 students, from 434 to 475.
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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 South-Western City
- Grove City High SchoolHigh · 1,881 students
- Westland High SchoolHigh · 1,853 students
- Central Crossing High SchoolHigh · 1,674 students
- Franklin Heights High SchoolHigh · 1,398 students
- Buckeye Woods Elementary SchoolElementary · 742 students
- Holt Crossing Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 733 students
Other schools in Grove City
- Grove City High SchoolHigh · 1,881 students
- Central Crossing High SchoolHigh · 1,674 students
- Buckeye Woods Elementary SchoolElementary · 742 students
- Holt Crossing Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 733 students
- Beulah Park Middle SchoolMiddle · 710 students
- Park Street Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 667 students
Other Highland Park Elementary schools
22 other US public schools in 15 states are named Highland Park Elementary. Highland Park Elementary School is the 8th largest of the 23.
- Highland Park ElementaryGILBERT, AZ · 787 students
- Highland Park Elementary SchoolUpper Darby, PA · 737 students
- Highland Park Elementary SchoolPFLUGERVILLE, TX · 706 students
- Highland Park Elementary SchoolBroken Arrow, OK · 654 students
- Highland Park Elementary SchoolAUSTIN, TX · 649 students
Nearby schools
- Richard Avenue Elementary School0.7 mi · 423
- Monterey Elementary School0.8 mi · 425
- The Bostic Head Start Center1.6 mi · 144
- JC Sommer Elementary School1.6 mi · 545
- Park Street Intermediate School1.6 mi · 667
- South-Western Preschool Center1.7 mi · 345
Frequently asked questions
About Highland Park Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Highland Park Elementary School?
Highland Park Elementary School enrolls approximately 475 students in grades KG-04.
What grades does Highland Park Elementary School serve?
Highland Park Elementary School serves grades KG-04.
How many students per teacher at Highland Park Elementary School?
Approximately 19.6:1 students per teacher at Highland Park Elementary School.
How diverse is Highland Park Elementary School?
Highland Park Elementary School reports a student body of 57% White, 13% Hispanic, 18% Black, 0% Asian, 12% Two or more.
Who oversees Highland Park Elementary School?
Highland Park Elementary School is overseen by South-Western City in Franklin County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.