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What advice would you give to incoming students at Northridge Elementary?
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Enrollment
546
Elementary
DISTRICT 389 · STATE 404
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NORTHRIDGE LOCAL·NCES 390480305462
Northridge Elementary
9200 Northridge Rd, Johnstown, OH 43031 · (740) 967-6631 · Licking County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY42-RURALREGULAR SCHOOL546 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
16.9:1
32 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.1:1 · STATE 17.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
34%
186 students
DISTRICT 64% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 32 | 6% |
| Kindergarten | 80 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 81 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 85 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 88 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 93 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 87 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (80) is 8% smaller than its 5th grade class (87).
Student demographics
22%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 19% · 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
67.6%
OH avg 59.8% . +1.5pp since 2021
Math
71.8%
OH avg 56.1% . +8.4pp since 2021
What this means: On the Ohio's State Tests, Ohio's statewide test, about 68 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 72 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Ohio schools, those numbers are about 60 and 56. Reading and writing scores are up about 1 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 8 points.
Ohio's State Tests results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 67.6% | 71.8% |
| 2023-24 | 70.6% | 63.7% |
| 2022-23 | 66.2% | 65.9% |
| 2021-22 | 66.1% | 63.4% |
% 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
68.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
75.9%
based on OH schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-7.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 68% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 76% 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 Northridge Elementary
Northridge Elementary's state test result (68.0% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Northridge Elementary this school | 546 | 34.1% | 68.0% |
| Woodlands Elementary School Huron | 523 | 36.3% | 85.5% |
| Nashport Elementary School Nashport | 540 | 35.4% | 81.8% |
| Huntington Elementary School Brunswick | 508 | 35.8% | 75.0% |
| Parkwood Elementary School Beavercreek | 538 | 34.8% | 74.9% |
| Berkshire Elementary Burton | 517 | 35.2% | 64.9% |
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 Northridge Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Ohio | In Licking County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 68.0% | #488 of 673 | #12 of 18 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 71.8% | #604 of 1,569 ▲ 191 | #12 of 26 ▲ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 67.6% | #667 of 1,569 ▼ 4 | #13 of 26 ▲ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +4.9pp | #599 of 1,514 | #9 of 24 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 546 | #363 of 1,808 | #7 of 30 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.9:1 | #640 of 1,582 | #15 of 27 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 22.0% | #1,115 of 1,590 | #21 of 27 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 34.1% | #466 of 767 | #17 of 20 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +64.5% | #44 of 561 | N/A |
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
546
+215 (+65%) vs 2020
+51% since 2010-11, when it was 362
Student : Teacher
16.9:1
was 15.8:1
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 | 546 | 32.2 | 16.9:1 | 34% (186) |
| 2023-24 | 563 | 31.6 | 17.8:1 | 33% (186) |
| 2022-23 | 549 | 29.6 | 18.6:1 | 28% (154) |
| 2020-21 | 331 | 21 | 15.8:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 332 | 19.9 | 16.7:1 | 33% (110) |
| 2015-16 | 341 | 18 | 18.9:1 | 27% (91) |
| 2010-11 | 362 | 20 | 18.1:1 | 20% (72) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Northridge Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students up 64% (332 to 546); teachers up 62% (19.9 to 32.2).
About Northridge Elementary
Northridge Elementary, located in Johnstown, Ohio, is a medium-sized elementary school. The school serves 546 students in pre-K through 5 in 2024-25. The average among elementary schools in Ohio is roughly 404 students; this school is 35% bigger than that.
Northridge Local is the local district for Northridge Elementary. It runs 3 schools with 1,167 students.
Northridge Elementary's enrollment is 88% White. The next largest groups are 5% multiracial, 3% Hispanic, and 2% Asian. County-wide, about 86% of residents are White. Pick two students at random and there is a 22% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Its 32.2 full-time-equivalent teachers give the school a ratio of 16.9:1. The school has fewer students per teacher than the 17.9:1 average for elementary schools in Ohio. The school's lunch program data list 34% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. That is lower than the 43% average for public schools in Licking County.
Given its share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, Northridge Elementary would be expected to post about 75.9%. Its actual average proficiency rate on state tests is 68.0%.
Recent Census Bureau figures for Licking County show that the median household income is $84,426, about 29% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 8%. Besides Northridge Elementary, Licking County has 62 other public schools.
The next-closest public school is Northridge High School, less than a tenth of a mile away. The count of other public schools within five miles is 6. On proficiency, Northridge Elementary is behind the 78.8% nearby average, ranking 7th of 8.
Its NCES locale code is Rural: Distant: the school is in rural territory some distance from an urban area.
Northridge Elementary reported 331 students in 2020-21 and 546 in 2024-25. Changes that large sometimes follow a school adding or dropping grades, so the two figures may not cover the same grades. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 15.8:1 in 2020-21 to 16.9:1 in 2024-25.
Topics for discussion here include school events, clubs, and volunteer needs. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Licking County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
181,837
Census ACS
Median income
$84,426
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
29%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
63
29,815 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Northridge Local
- Northridge High SchoolHigh · 351 students
- Northridge Middle SchoolMiddle · 270 students
Other schools in Johnstown
- Johnstown High SchoolHigh · 488 students
- Johnstown Elementary SchoolElementary · 483 students
- Johnstown Middle SchoolMiddle · 412 students
- Northridge High SchoolHigh · 351 students
- JOHNSTOWN INTERMEDIATE SCHOOLElementary · 273 students
- Northridge Middle SchoolMiddle · 270 students
Other Northridge Elementary schools
7 other US public schools in 6 states are named Northridge Elementary. Northridge Elementary is the 4th largest of the 8.
- Northridge Elementary SchoolDayton, OH · 796 students
- Northridge Elementary SchoolOklahoma City, OK · 700 students
- Northridge Elementary SchoolHIGHLANDS RANCH, CO · 560 students
- Northridge ElementaryFair Oaks, CA · 423 students
- NORTHRIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLBismarck, ND · 410 students
Nearby schools
- Northridge High School0.1 mi · 351
- Northridge Middle School0.2 mi · 270
- Johnstown Elementary School4.5 mi · 483
- Johnstown Middle School4.7 mi · 412
- JOHNSTOWN INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL4.8 mi · 273
- Johnstown High School4.9 mi · 488
Frequently asked questions
About Northridge ElementaryHow large is Northridge Elementary?
Northridge Elementary enrolls approximately 546 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Northridge Elementary serve?
Northridge Elementary serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Northridge Elementary?
Approximately 16.9:1 students per teacher at Northridge Elementary.
What is the student diversity at Northridge Elementary?
Student demographics at Northridge Elementary are roughly 88% White, 3% Hispanic, 1% Black, 2% Asian, 5% Two or more.
What district is Northridge Elementary in?
Northridge Elementary is part of Northridge Local.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.