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Enrollment
1,674
High
DISTRICT 1,331 · STATE 565
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HILLIARD CITY·NCES 390470100663
Hilliard Darby High School
4200 Leppert Rd, Hilliard, OH 43026 · (614) 921-7300 · Franklin County
GRADES 09–12HIGH21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL1,674 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 54% of Ohio public high schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- CThree-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 high schools
Student : Teacher
16.8:1
99 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 19.4:1 · STATE 17.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
34%
573 students
DISTRICT 35% · STATE 43%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 438 | 26% |
| Grade 10 | 421 | 25% |
| Grade 11 | 421 | 25% |
| Grade 12 | 394 | 24% |
Student demographics
54%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 55% · 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
71.3%
OH avg 59.8% . +0.3pp since 2021
Math
62.0%
OH avg 56.1% . +1.9pp since 2021
What this means: On the Ohio's State Tests, Ohio's statewide test, about 71 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 62 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Ohio schools, those numbers are about 60 and 56. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2021, while math scores are up about 2 points.
Ohio's State Tests results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 71.3% | 62.0% |
| 2023-24 | 66.7% | 54.3% |
| 2022-23 | 64.2% | 57.3% |
| 2021-22 | 71.0% | 60.1% |
% 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
70.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
75.9%
based on OH schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-5.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 70% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 76% 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 Hilliard Darby High School
Hilliard Darby High School's state test result (70.3% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hilliard Darby High School this school | 1,674 | 34.2% | 70.3% |
| Hilliard Bradley High School Hilliard | 1,712 | 37.3% | 71.8% |
| Hilliard Davidson High School Hilliard | 1,847 | 31.6% | 74.7% |
| Worthington Kilbourne High School Columbus | 1,623 | 32.2% | 75.9% |
| Lakota West High School West Chester | 2,968 | 30.6% | 75.2% |
| Lakota East High School Liberty Township | 2,660 | 25.2% | 75.9% |
Matched among Ohio high 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 Hilliard Darby High School ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In Ohio | In Franklin County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 70.3% | #222 of 403 | #11 of 21 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 62.0% | #211 of 776 ▲ 71 | #8 of 55 ▲ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 71.3% | #291 of 774 ▲ 70 | #14 of 55 ▲ 3 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +1.1pp | #494 of 742 | #38 of 49 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,674 | #47 of 888 | #12 of 66 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.8:1 | #400 of 739 | #13 of 50 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 54.2% | #143 of 749 | #33 of 51 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 34.2% | #293 of 435 | #10 of 21 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +10.1% | #80 of 198 | #8 of 23 |
Ranked against other public high 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
1,674
+29 (+2%) vs 2020
-6% since 2000-01, when it was 1,789
Student : Teacher
16.8:1
was 18.5:1
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 | 1,674 | 99.5 | 16.8:1 | 34% (573) |
| 2023-24 | 1,634 | 97.3 | 16.8:1 | 33% (545) |
| 2022-23 | 1,577 | 97.8 | 16.1:1 | 23% (362) |
| 2020-21 | 1,645 | 89 | 18.5:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 1,521 | 87.3 | 17.4:1 | 18% (275) |
| 2015-16 | 1,532 | 84 | 18.2:1 | 21% (321) |
| 2010-11 | 1,373 | 88 | 15.6:1 | 17% (235) |
| 2000-01 | 1,789 | 115 | 15.6:1 | 4% (72) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Hilliard Darby High School.
Since 2017-18: students up 10% (1,521 to 1,674); teachers up 14% (87.3 to 99.5).
About Hilliard Darby High School
Students in Hilliard, Ohio, attend Hilliard Darby High School, a large high school. It reported 1,674 students in grades 9 through 12 in 2024-25. High schools in Ohio have about 565 students on average; enrollment here is 196% higher.
Hilliard City oversees Hilliard Darby High School and 23 other schools, with 16,298 students in total.
White students are 65% of those enrolled at Hilliard Darby High School. The remaining shares are 14% Hispanic, 9% Asian, 7% Black, and 5% multiracial. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 54, compared with 70 nationally.
Based on 99.5 full-time-equivalent teachers, Hilliard Darby High School has a ratio of 16.8:1. Across high schools in Ohio, the average ratio is 17.7:1. Income data for the school show 34% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch.
Among Ohio public high schools, Hilliard Darby High School outscored 54%, which works out to a B- on the allk12 Grade.
Hilliard Darby High School's average proficiency rate across its state test results of 70.3% is 5.5 points below the 75.9% the model predicts from its lunch-eligibility share.
In the surrounding county, Franklin County, the median household earns about $75,176 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 42%, and roughly 11% of residents are in poverty. Franklin County has 402 public schools with about 195,359 students, including Hilliard Darby High School.
Hilliard Darby High School's closest public school neighbor is Hilliard Station Sixth Grade Elementary School, less than a tenth of a mile away. Within five miles of Hilliard Darby High School, there are at least 8 other public schools. Its average proficiency rate of 70.3% is below the 73.0% average for nearby schools.
The school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more, according to its NCES locale (Suburb: Large).
Enrollment at Hilliard Darby High School was 1,645 in 2020-21 and 1,674 in 2024-25, a change of less than 3%. The student-to-teacher ratio went down from 18.5:1 to 16.8:1.
On allk12, people connected to Hilliard Darby High School can post about special education services, counseling, and support programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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 Hilliard City
- Hilliard Davidson High SchoolHigh · 1,847 students
- Hilliard Bradley High SchoolHigh · 1,712 students
- Hilliard Weaver Middle SchoolMiddle · 917 students
- Hilliard Memorial Middle SchoolMiddle · 797 students
- Hilliard Heritage Middle SchoolMiddle · 791 students
- Hilliard Station Sixth Grade Elementary SchoolMiddle · 763 students
Other schools in Hilliard
- Hilliard Davidson High SchoolHigh · 1,847 students
- Hilliard Bradley High SchoolHigh · 1,712 students
- Hilliard Weaver Middle SchoolMiddle · 917 students
- Hilliard Memorial Middle SchoolMiddle · 797 students
- Hilliard Heritage Middle SchoolMiddle · 791 students
- Hilliard Station Sixth Grade Elementary SchoolMiddle · 763 students
Nearby schools
- Hilliard Station Sixth Grade Elementary School0.0 mi · 763
- Hilliard Heritage Middle School0.2 mi · 791
- Hoffman Trails Elementary School0.5 mi · 468
- Hilliard Online Academy0.6 mi · 92
- Scioto Darby Elementary School0.7 mi · 376
- Avery Elementary School0.8 mi · 432
Frequently asked questions
About Hilliard Darby High SchoolHow many students attend Hilliard Darby High School?
Hilliard Darby High School enrolls approximately 1,674 students in grades 09-12.
Is Hilliard Darby High School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Hilliard Darby High School is a high school covering grades 09-12.
How many students per teacher at Hilliard Darby High School?
Approximately 16.8:1 students per teacher at Hilliard Darby High School.
What is the student diversity at Hilliard Darby High School?
Student demographics at Hilliard Darby High School are roughly 65% White, 14% Hispanic, 7% Black, 9% Asian, 5% Two or more.
What district is Hilliard Darby High School in?
Hilliard Darby High School is part of Hilliard City.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.