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Enrollment
540
Elementary
DISTRICT 508 · STATE 404
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·DUBLIN CITY·NCES 390470200667
Mary Emma Bailey Elementary School
4900 Brandonway Dr, Dublin, OH 43017 · (614) 717-6611 · Franklin County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL540 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
20.8:1
26 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 18.6:1 · STATE 17.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
3%
14 students
DISTRICT 23% · 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 | 75 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 85 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 83 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 95 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 101 | 19% |
| Grade 5 | 101 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (75) is 26% smaller than its 5th grade class (101).
Student demographics
29%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 62% · 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
87.6%
OH avg 59.8% . -3.8pp since 2021
Math
89.8%
OH avg 56.1% . -1.9pp since 2021
What this means: On the Ohio's State Tests, Ohio's statewide test, about 88 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 90 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 4 points since 2021, while math scores are down about 2 points.
Ohio's State Tests results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 87.6% | 89.8% |
| 2023-24 | 89.0% | 92.7% |
| 2022-23 | 93.0% | 93.1% |
| 2021-22 | 91.4% | 91.8% |
% 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
90.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
87.8%
based on OH schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+2.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 90% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 88% 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 Mary Emma Bailey Elementary School
Mary Emma Bailey Elementary School's state test result (90.1% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mary Emma Bailey Elementary School this school | 540 | 2.6% | 90.1% |
| Ellsworth Hill Elementary School Hudson | 617 | 4.9% | N/A |
| Eli Pinney Elementary School Dublin | 585 | 5.3% | 89.3% |
| Windermere Elementary School Upper Arlington | 555 | 4.3% | 93.5% |
| Tyler Run Elementary School Powell | 606 | 6.3% | 92.4% |
| Johnnycake Corners Elementary School Galena | 611 | 6.5% | 85.5% |
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 Mary Emma Bailey Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Ohio | In Franklin County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 90.1% | #40 of 673 | #3 of 81 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 89.8% | #88 of 1,569 ▼ 50 | #4 of 199 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 87.6% | #88 of 1,569 ▼ 2 | #8 of 199 ▼ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -2.9pp | #267 of 1,514 | #32 of 194 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 540 | #378 of 1,808 | #35 of 225 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 20.8:1 | #1,372 of 1,582 | #157 of 192 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 29.2% | #949 of 1,590 | #174 of 193 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 2.6% | #766 of 767 | #84 of 85 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -15.5% | #406 of 992 | #73 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
540
-11 (-2%) vs 2020
-11% since 2000-01, when it was 610
Student : Teacher
20.8:1
was 17.2:1
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 | 540 | 26 | 20.8:1 | 3% (14) |
| 2023-24 | 566 | 27 | 21.0:1 | 2% (13) |
| 2022-23 | 573 | 28 | 20.5:1 | 1% (4) |
| 2020-21 | 551 | 32 | 17.2:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 639 | 9 | 71.0:1 | 5% (29) |
| 2015-16 | 540 | 28 | 19.3:1 | 4% (24) |
| 2010-11 | 533 | 28 | 19.0:1 | 2% (8) |
| 2000-01 | 610 | 37 | 16.5:1 | 0% (1) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Mary Emma Bailey Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 15% (639 to 540); teachers up 189% (9 to 26).
About Mary Emma Bailey Elementary School
Mary Emma Bailey Elementary School, located in Dublin, Ohio, is a medium-sized elementary school. The latest federal count shows 540 students in kindergarten through 5. Against the 404-student average for elementary schools in Ohio, enrollment here is 34% higher.
Dublin City is the district for Mary Emma Bailey Elementary School. It has 23 schools and 16,967 students.
Mary Emma Bailey Elementary School's enrollment is 84% White. After that, the student body is 8% Asian, 6% multiracial, and 2% Hispanic. Census figures show Franklin County is about 59% White. The school's diversity index is 29%, meaning two students picked at random have a 29% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
Mary Emma Bailey Elementary School employs 26 full-time-equivalent teachers. That gives a ratio of about 20.8:1. This ratio sits 2.9 above the 17.9:1 average for elementary schools in Ohio. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility was 3% in 2024-25. That is 38 points below the 41% average for public schools in Franklin County.
The BeatsExpectations prediction for Mary Emma Bailey Elementary School is 87.8%, and its average proficiency rate on state tests is 90.1%.
Federal survey data for Franklin County show that the median household income is $75,176, roughly 42% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. There are 402 public schools in Franklin County, enrolling about 195,359 students in all.
Nearby, Dublin Preschool is about 0.9 miles away. Within five miles of Mary Emma Bailey Elementary School, there are at least 8 other public schools. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 75.7%; Mary Emma Bailey Elementary School's is 90.1%, ranking 1st of 8.
In the federal locale system, Mary Emma Bailey Elementary School is coded Suburb: Large, for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
There was little change in enrollment from 2020-21 (551) to 2024-25 (540). The ratio was 17.2:1 in 2020-21 and 20.8:1 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 Dublin City
- Dublin Jerome High SchoolHigh · 2,075 students
- Dublin Coffman High SchoolHigh · 1,824 students
- Dublin Scioto High SchoolHigh · 1,437 students
- Abraham Depp ElementaryElementary · 902 students
- Ann Simpson Davis Middle SchoolMiddle · 890 students
- Henry Karrer Middle SchoolMiddle · 885 students
Other schools in Dublin
- Dublin Jerome High SchoolHigh · 2,075 students
- Dublin Coffman High SchoolHigh · 1,824 students
- Dublin Scioto High SchoolHigh · 1,437 students
- Ann Simpson Davis Middle SchoolMiddle · 890 students
- Henry Karrer Middle SchoolMiddle · 885 students
- John Sells Middle SchoolMiddle · 715 students
Nearby schools
- Dublin Preschool0.9 mi · 333
- Wyandot Elementary School1.1 mi · 483
- Dublin Scioto High School1.1 mi · 1,437
- Dublin Coffman High School1.2 mi · 1,824
- Hopewell Elementary1.3 mi · 536
- Scottish Corners Elementary School1.6 mi · 492
Frequently asked questions
About Mary Emma Bailey Elementary SchoolHow large is Mary Emma Bailey Elementary School?
Mary Emma Bailey Elementary School enrolls approximately 540 students in grades KG-05.
Is Mary Emma Bailey Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Mary Emma Bailey Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
How many teachers does Mary Emma Bailey Elementary School have?
Mary Emma Bailey Elementary School employs 26 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 20.8:1.
How diverse is Mary Emma Bailey Elementary School?
Mary Emma Bailey Elementary School reports a student body of 84% White, 2% Hispanic, 0% Black, 8% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Who oversees Mary Emma Bailey Elementary School?
Mary Emma Bailey Elementary School is overseen by Dublin City in Franklin County.
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