Hilliard Tharp Sixth Grade Elementary School

Hilliard Tharp Sixth Grade Elementary School is a middle school of moderately sized scale in Hilliard, Ohio, operated by Hilliard City, hosting 512 students in grades 4 through 6.

Hilliard City comprises 24 schools with combined enrollment of 16,298 students; Hilliard Tharp Sixth Grade Elementary School is among them.

In terms of who attends, Hilliard Tharp Sixth Grade Elementary School logs that the largest single group is White, at 66% of enrollment; the rest comes out to 13% Hispanic, 9% Black, 8% Asian, 4% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.8:1. The state averages around 17.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 26% of students at Hilliard Tharp Sixth Grade Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Franklin County (around 41%), the school's rate is south of typical.

With demographic context factored in, Hilliard Tharp Sixth Grade Elementary School ranks in the top 10% of Ohio public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 79.1%; Hilliard Tharp Sixth Grade Elementary School posts 92.2%, +13.2 points above that line.

In the broader community, Franklin County reports that the typical household earns roughly $75,176 per year, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Hilliard Tharp Sixth Grade Elementary School is one of 402 public schools in Franklin County (combined enrollment of about 195,359 students).

Norwich Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Hilliard Tharp Sixth Grade Elementary School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 69.1%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Looking at the recent track record. Hilliard Tharp Sixth Grade Elementary School's enrollment has edged down 25% since 2018, when it stood at 680 (now 512). The White share of enrollment declined from 72% to 66% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 18.1:1 in 2018 to 14.8:1 in 2025.

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