Prairie Lincoln Elementary School

Prairie Lincoln Elementary School is one of the middle-of-the-pack K-5 schools in Columbus, Ohio, operated by South-Western City, with 515 students on its rolls from grades K through 4. By comparison, Ohio's public schools average about 404 students each, so Prairie Lincoln Elementary School sits 27% bigger than that benchmark.

South-Western City runs 33 schools in total, collectively educating 21,873 students. Prairie Lincoln Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Prairie Lincoln Elementary School logs that 40% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 33% White, 16% Black, 9% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Franklin County as a whole is about 8% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school lists 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.4:1. The state averages around 17.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 79% of students at Prairie Lincoln Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Franklin County (around 41%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Prairie Lincoln Elementary School is in the bottom 10% of Ohio public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 59.0%; Prairie Lincoln Elementary School posts 42.4%, -16.7 points below that line.

In the broader community, Franklin County reports that median household earnings sit near $75,176, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Franklin County runs 402 public schools (combined enrollment of about 195,359 students), of which Prairie Lincoln Elementary School is one.

Prairie Norton Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Prairie Lincoln Elementary School comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 46.2%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 16%: 613 students in 2018 compared to 515 in 2025. The White share of enrollment declined from 51% to 33% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 21.9:1 in 2018 to 19.4:1 today.

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