Oak Creek Elementary School

Oak Creek Elementary School is one of the high-enrollment elementary schools in Lewis Center, Ohio, overseen by Olentangy Local, with 649 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 61% above the typical public school in Ohio, which averages around 404 students.

Olentangy Local comprises 29 schools with combined enrollment of 24,133 students; Oak Creek Elementary School is among them.

On demographics, Oak Creek Elementary School lists that the largest single group is White at 49%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest comes out to 21% Asian, 11% Hispanic, 9% Black, 9% multiracial. By comparison, Delaware County as a whole is about 80% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.2:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.9:1, putting Oak Creek Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 22% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Oak Creek Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 80.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 84.5%.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Delaware County put median household earnings sit near $133,540, about 59% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 3%. Oak Creek Elementary School is one of 59 public schools in Delaware County (combined enrollment of about 44,100 students).

Nearest neighbor: Glen Oak Elementary School, around 1.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Oak Creek Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Oak Creek Elementary School at 3rd of 9; the average score across the group is 82.3%.

Oak Creek Elementary School operates from a residential location.

Five-year trend. Oak Creek Elementary School's enrollment has declined 4% since 2018, when it stood at 675 (now 649). Over the same period, the White share contracted from 58% to 49%.

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