Hoffman Trails Elementary School

Set in Hilliard, Ohio, Hoffman Trails Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school, run under Hilliard City. It teaches 468 students across grades K through 5.

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

Looking at the student body, Hoffman Trails Elementary School lists that White students make up the majority at 66%. The remainder comes out to 11% Black, 8% Hispanic, 7% Asian, 7% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, Hoffman Trails Elementary School records 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.9:1, putting Hoffman Trails Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 26% of students at Hoffman Trails Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is south of Franklin County's rate of about 41%.

With demographic context factored in, Hoffman Trails Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 79.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 80.3%.

Around the school, census data for Franklin County shows the typical household earns roughly $75,176 per year, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Franklin County's 402 public schools (combined enrollment of about 195,359 students), Hoffman Trails Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Hilliard Darby High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Hoffman Trails Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Hoffman Trails Elementary School at 1st of 8; the average score across the group is 71.5%.

Hoffman Trails Elementary School operates from a commuter-belt location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 22%: 602 students in 2018 compared to 468 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 75% to 66% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 20.8:1 in 2018 to 15.9:1 in 2025.

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