Mary Emma Bailey Elementary School

As an average-sized elementary school in Dublin, Ohio, Mary Emma Bailey Elementary School hosts 540 students from grades K through 5, part of Dublin City. By comparison, Ohio's public schools average about 404 students each, so Mary Emma Bailey Elementary School sits 34% larger than that benchmark.

Within Dublin City, which oversees 23 schools and 16,967 students, Mary Emma Bailey Elementary School is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Mary Emma Bailey Elementary School records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (84%); the rest breaks down as 8% Asian, 6% multiracial, 2% Hispanic. By comparison, Franklin County as a whole is about 59% White, so the school skews considerably more White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 20.8:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.9:1 average. Around 3% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Franklin County (around 41%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Mary Emma Bailey Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 87.8%, the actual is 90.1%, a residual of +2.3 points.

In the surrounding community, Franklin County reports that the typical household earns roughly $75,176 per year, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Mary Emma Bailey Elementary School is one of 402 public schools in Franklin County (combined enrollment of about 195,359 students).

Nearest neighbor: Dublin Preschool, around 0.9 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Mary Emma Bailey Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Mary Emma Bailey Elementary School comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 75.7%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Mary Emma Bailey Elementary School has ticked down 15%, going from 639 students in 2018 to 540 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 74% to 84% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 71.0:1 in 2018 to 20.8:1 today.

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