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If you could change one rule at Jefferson Elementary School, what would it be?
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Enrollment
437
Elementary
DISTRICT 486 · STATE 404
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·GAHANNA-JEFFERSON CITY·NCES 390469602718
Jefferson Elementary School
136 Carpenter Rd, Gahanna, OH 43230 · (614) 478-5560 · Franklin County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL437 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
18.2:1
24 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.8:1 · STATE 17.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
24%
107 students
DISTRICT 36% · 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 | 69 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 65 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 83 | 19% |
| Grade 3 | 69 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 83 | 19% |
| Grade 5 | 68 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (69) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (68).
Student demographics
50%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 64% · 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
81.2%
OH avg 59.8% . -0.1pp since 2021
Math
82.0%
OH avg 56.1% . +13.7pp since 2021
What this means: On the Ohio's State Tests, Ohio's statewide test, about 81 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 82 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 14 points.
Ohio's State Tests results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 81.2% | 82.0% |
| 2023-24 | 83.5% | 81.7% |
| 2022-23 | 77.7% | 72.8% |
| 2021-22 | 81.2% | 68.3% |
% 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
81.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
79.5%
based on OH schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+1.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 81% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 80% 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 Jefferson Elementary School
Jefferson Elementary School's state test result (81.2% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jefferson Elementary School this school | 437 | 24.5% | 81.2% |
| Robert Frost Elementary School Westerville | 420 | 26.7% | 79.9% |
| Alcott Elementary School Westerville | 537 | 22.0% | 90.6% |
| Hanby Building Elementary School Westerville | 363 | 20.7% | 73.4% |
| High Point Elementary School Gahanna | 555 | 22.7% | 82.3% |
| Mark Twain Elementary School Westerville | 398 | 29.9% | 79.6% |
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 Jefferson Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Ohio | In Franklin County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 81.2% | #215 of 673 | #19 of 81 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 82.0% | #314 of 1,569 ▼ 16 | #20 of 199 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 81.2% | #239 of 1,569 ▲ 3 | #20 of 199 ▲ 3 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +6.8pp | #445 of 1,514 | #71 of 194 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 437 | #695 of 1,808 | #88 of 225 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.2:1 | #944 of 1,582 | #90 of 192 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 50.3% | #546 of 1,590 | #138 of 193 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 24.5% | #589 of 767 | #62 of 85 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -21.8% | #217 of 992 | #42 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
437
-49 (-10%) vs 2020
-12% since 1990-91, when it was 494
Student : Teacher
18.2:1
was 20.3:1
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 | 437 | 24 | 18.2:1 | 24% (107) |
| 2023-24 | 472 | 27.5 | 17.2:1 | 18% (85) |
| 2022-23 | 477 | 25 | 19.1:1 | 19% (93) |
| 2020-21 | 486 | 24 | 20.3:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 559 | 27 | 20.7:1 | 18% (99) |
| 2015-16 | 475 | 27 | 17.6:1 | 20% (96) |
| 2010-11 | 511 | 28 | 18.3:1 | 24% (122) |
| 2000-01 | 385 | 22 | 17.5:1 | 5% (19) |
| 1990-91 | 494 | 30 | 16.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Jefferson Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 22% (559 to 437); teachers down 11% (27 to 24).
About Jefferson Elementary School
Jefferson Elementary School is listed by the National Center for Education Statistics as an elementary school in Gahanna, Ohio. The school has 437 students in 2024-25 across kindergarten through 5.
Jefferson Elementary School is part of Gahanna-Jefferson City, where 13 schools serve 8,290 students.
White students are 68% of those enrolled at Jefferson Elementary School. Other reported shares: 15% Black, 9% multiracial, 5% Hispanic, and 2% Asian. That compares with about 59% White among all Franklin County residents. A diversity index of 50% means there is a 50% chance two randomly chosen students at Jefferson Elementary School are from different groups.
The school's 24 full-time-equivalent teachers translate to a student-to-teacher ratio of 18.2:1. The 17.9:1 average for elementary schools in Ohio is close to this figure. Income data for the school show 24% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Public schools in Franklin County average 41%.
Jefferson Elementary School's average proficiency rate across its state test results of 81.2% is 1.7 points above the 79.5% the model predicts from its lunch-eligibility share.
In the wider Franklin County area, the median household earns about $75,176 a year, about 42% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 11% of residents are in poverty. Across Franklin County, 402 public schools serve about 195,359 students.
Gahanna- Jefferson Clark Hall is about 0.5 miles away, making it the nearest public school. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. Ranked by average proficiency, Jefferson Elementary School places 1st out of 7 schools in its immediate area.
Jefferson Elementary School has an NCES locale of Suburb: Large.
Enrollment was 437 in 2024-25. In 2020-21, it was 486. Its ratio of students to teachers was 20.3:1 in 2020-21, and 18.2:1 in 2024-25.
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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 Gahanna-Jefferson City
- Lincoln High SchoolHigh · 2,468 students
- Lincoln Elementary SchoolElementary · 730 students
- Blacklick Elementary SchoolElementary · 692 students
- Gahanna East Middle SchoolMiddle · 660 students
- Gahanna South Middle SchoolMiddle · 653 students
- Gahanna West Middle SchoolMiddle · 608 students
Other schools in Gahanna
- Lincoln High SchoolHigh · 2,468 students
- Lincoln Elementary SchoolElementary · 730 students
- Gahanna East Middle SchoolMiddle · 660 students
- Gahanna South Middle SchoolMiddle · 653 students
- Gahanna West Middle SchoolMiddle · 608 students
- High Point Elementary SchoolElementary · 555 students
Other Jefferson Elementary schools
143 other US public schools in 31 states are named Jefferson Elementary. Jefferson Elementary School is the 49th largest of the 144.
- Jefferson ElementaryJefferson, OH · 654 students
- Jefferson Elementary SchoolEastlake, OH · 402 students
- Jefferson Elementary SchoolJefferson, GA · 1,011 students
- Jefferson ElementaryRiverside, CA · 886 students
- Jefferson ElementaryLennox, CA · 716 students
Nearby schools
- Gahanna- Jefferson Clark Hall0.5 mi · 176
- Chapelfield Elementary School0.6 mi · 409
- Lincoln High School0.7 mi · 2,468
- Gahanna Lincoln High School - OLS0.7 mi · 15
- Gahanna West Middle School0.7 mi · 608
- Royal Manor Elementary School1.1 mi · 423
Frequently asked questions
About Jefferson Elementary SchoolHow large is Jefferson Elementary School?
Jefferson Elementary School enrolls approximately 437 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Jefferson Elementary School serve?
Jefferson Elementary School serves grades KG-05.
How many teachers does Jefferson Elementary School have?
Jefferson Elementary School employs 24 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 18.2:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Jefferson Elementary School?
At Jefferson Elementary School, the student body is approximately 68% White, 5% Hispanic, 15% Black, 2% Asian, 9% Two or more.
Who oversees Jefferson Elementary School?
Jefferson Elementary School is overseen by Gahanna-Jefferson City in Franklin County.
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