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What's one thing Indian Springs Elementary gets right about preparing students for what comes next?
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Enrollment
721
Elementary
DISTRICT 583 · STATE 404
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·OLENTANGY LOCAL·NCES 390467604601
Indian Springs Elementary
3828 Home Rd, Powell, OH 43065 · (740) 657-4950 · Delaware County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY41-RURALREGULAR SCHOOL721 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
19.8:1
36 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 19.7:1 · STATE 17.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
9%
66 students
DISTRICT 12% · 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 | 110 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 114 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 124 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 113 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 120 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 140 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (110) is 21% smaller than its 5th grade class (140).
Student demographics
59%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 58% · 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
85.6%
OH avg 59.8% . -2.1pp since 2021
Math
85.1%
OH avg 56.1% . -4.2pp since 2021
What this means: On the Ohio's State Tests, Ohio's statewide test, about 86 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 85 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Ohio schools, those numbers are about 60 and 56. Reading and writing scores are down about 2 points since 2021, while math scores are down about 4 points.
Ohio's State Tests results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 85.6% | 85.1% |
| 2023-24 | 88.2% | 88.2% |
| 2022-23 | 85.0% | 88.4% |
| 2021-22 | 87.7% | 89.3% |
% 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
86.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
85.3%
based on OH schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+1.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 87% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 85% 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 Indian Springs Elementary
Indian Springs Elementary's state test result (86.5% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indian Springs Elementary this school | 721 | 9.2% | 86.5% |
| Liberty Tree Elementary School Powell | 727 | 10.2% | 86.7% |
| Cheshire Elementary Delaware | 508 | 11.6% | 87.5% |
| Abraham Depp Elementary Plain City | 902 | 3.7% | 86.5% |
| Glen Oak Elementary School Lewis Center | 654 | 18.0% | 82.4% |
| Scottish Corners Elementary School Dublin | 492 | 9.1% | 85.4% |
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 Indian Springs Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Ohio | In Delaware County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 86.5% | #105 of 673 | #12 of 33 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 85.1% | #217 of 1,569 ▼ 98 | #14 of 33 ▼ 7 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 85.6% | #127 of 1,569 ▼ 22 | #9 of 33 ▲ 2 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -3.2pp | #255 of 1,514 | #8 of 33 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 721 | #133 of 1,808 | #5 of 35 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 19.8:1 | #1,247 of 1,582 | #20 of 34 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 59.4% | #384 of 1,590 | #12 of 34 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 9.2% | #724 of 767 | #25 of 34 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +16.7% | #213 of 561 | #8 of 15 |
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
721
+144 (+25%) vs 2020
+13% since 2010-11, when it was 639
Student : Teacher
19.8:1
was 23.1:1
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 | 721 | 36.5 | 19.8:1 | 9% (66) |
| 2023-24 | 649 | 34.5 | 18.8:1 | 7% (48) |
| 2022-23 | 654 | 31.2 | 21.0:1 | 6% (36) |
| 2020-21 | 577 | 25 | 23.1:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 618 | 30.8 | 20.1:1 | 1% (5) |
| 2015-16 | 634 | 32 | 19.8:1 | 2% (10) |
| 2010-11 | 639 | 32 | 20.0:1 | 2% (13) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Indian Springs Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students up 17% (618 to 721); teachers up 18% (30.8 to 36.5).
About Indian Springs Elementary
Indian Springs Elementary is an elementary school located in Powell, Ohio, in Delaware County. The school enrolls 721 students in kindergarten through 5. Elementary schools in Ohio average about 404 students, which makes this school 78% bigger than average.
The district, Olentangy Local, operates 29 schools serving 24,133 students.
About 57% of the student body at Indian Springs Elementary is White. Enrollment also includes 27% Asian, 7% multiracial, 6% Hispanic, and 3% Black. Among people living in Delaware County, the White share is about 80%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 59%.
The student-to-teacher ratio is 19.8:1. The school has 36.5 full-time-equivalent teachers. By comparison, the average for elementary schools in Ohio is 17.9:1. In all, 9% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The 20% average for public schools in Delaware County is 11 points higher.
Predicted from its free or reduced-price lunch share, Indian Springs Elementary would score about 85.3%. It scores 86.5%, 1.2 points above that figure.
Looking at the county, Delaware County, the median household earns about $133,540 a year, 59% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 3% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting Indian Springs Elementary, Delaware County has 59 public schools.
Olentangy Liberty High School, about 0.2 miles away, is the closest public school. Within five miles of Indian Springs Elementary, there are at least 8 other public schools. Ranked by average proficiency, Indian Springs Elementary places 8th out of 9 schools in its immediate area.
Indian Springs Elementary is coded as Rural: Fringe in federal locale data.
The school's enrollment rose 25% from 2020-21 to 2024-25. Federal data show the ratio falling from 23.1:1 to 19.8:1.
Indian Springs Elementary has a community page on allk12 for topics such as pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. You can also rate the school on this page.
Delaware County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
226,834
Census ACS
Median income
$133,540
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
59%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
3%
Below federal line
Schools in county
59
44,100 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Olentangy Local
- Orange High SchoolHigh · 1,936 students
- Olentangy Liberty High SchoolHigh · 1,847 students
- Olentangy Berlin High SchoolHigh · 1,823 students
- Olentangy High SchoolHigh · 1,760 students
- Olentangy Orange Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,056 students
- Olentangy Shanahan Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,029 students
Other schools in Powell
- Olentangy Liberty High SchoolHigh · 1,847 students
- Olentangy Liberty Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,005 students
- Hyatts Middle SchoolMiddle · 835 students
- Wyandot Run Elementary SchoolElementary · 733 students
- Liberty Tree Elementary SchoolElementary · 727 students
- Scioto Ridge Elementary SchoolElementary · 642 students
Other Indian Springs Elementary schools
5 other US public schools in 5 states are named Indian Springs Elementary. Indian Springs Elementary is the largest of the 6.
- Indian Springs Elementary SchoolColumbus, OH · 396 students
- Indian Springs Elementary SchoolSAN ANTONIO, TX · 649 students
- Indian Springs ElementaryKingsport, TN · 312 students
- Indian Springs Elementary SchoolEight Mile, AL · 305 students
- Indian Springs Elementary SchoolIndian Springs, NV · 142 students
Nearby schools
- Olentangy Liberty High School0.2 mi · 1,847
- Liberty Tree Elementary School0.7 mi · 727
- Hyatts Middle School0.7 mi · 835
- Olentangy Liberty Middle School1.5 mi · 1,005
- Wyandot Run Elementary School1.5 mi · 733
- Scioto Ridge Elementary School2.6 mi · 642
Frequently asked questions
About Indian Springs ElementaryHow large is Indian Springs Elementary?
Indian Springs Elementary enrolls approximately 721 students in grades KG-05.
Is Indian Springs Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Indian Springs Elementary is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
How many teachers does Indian Springs Elementary have?
Indian Springs Elementary employs 36 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 19.8:1.
How diverse is Indian Springs Elementary?
Indian Springs Elementary reports a student body of 57% White, 6% Hispanic, 3% Black, 27% Asian, 7% Two or more.
What district is Indian Springs Elementary in?
Indian Springs Elementary is part of Olentangy Local.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.