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Enrollment
510
Elementary
DISTRICT 450 · STATE 404
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SOUTH-WESTERN CITY·NCES 390448001672
Prairie Norton Elementary School
105 Norton Rd, Columbus, OH 43228 · (614) 801-8450 · Franklin County
GRADES PK–04ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL510 STUDENTS
C
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 25% of Ohio public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- B+Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Ohio public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
20.0:1
26 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 20.4:1 · STATE 17.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
77%
391 students
DISTRICT 66% · 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 | 33 | 6% |
| Kindergarten | 92 | 18% |
| Grade 1 | 85 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 117 | 23% |
| Grade 3 | 86 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 97 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (92) is 5% smaller than its 4th grade class (97).
Student demographics
72%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 67% · 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
42.1%
OH avg 59.8% . +2.6pp since 2021
Math
62.6%
OH avg 56.1% . +11.3pp since 2021
What this means: On the Ohio's State Tests, Ohio's statewide test, about 42 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 63 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 3 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 11 points.
Ohio's State Tests results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 42.1% | 62.6% |
| 2023-24 | 45.1% | 55.0% |
| 2022-23 | 38.9% | 51.4% |
| 2021-22 | 39.5% | 51.3% |
% 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
51.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
59.9%
based on OH schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-8.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 51% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 60% 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 Prairie Norton Elementary School
Prairie Norton Elementary School's state test result (51.2% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prairie Norton Elementary School this school | 510 | 76.7% | 51.2% |
| Prairie Lincoln Elementary School Columbus | 515 | 78.8% | 42.4% |
| Fairfield Central Elementary School Fairfield | 756 | 81.0% | 61.0% |
| Darby Woods Elementary School Galloway | 554 | 72.2% | 59.2% |
| Global Ambassadors Language Academy Cleveland | 279 | 71.0% | 51.7% |
| Slate Hill Elementary School Worthington | 479 | 58.7% | 65.6% |
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 Prairie Norton Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Ohio | In Franklin County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 51.2% | #649 of 673 | #72 of 81 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 62.6% | #864 of 1,569 ▲ 101 | #68 of 199 ▲ 12 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 42.1% | #1,218 of 1,569 ▼ 4 | #125 of 199 ▼ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +7.0pp | #424 of 1,514 | #68 of 194 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 510 | #455 of 1,808 | #49 of 225 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 20.0:1 | #1,272 of 1,582 | #139 of 192 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 72.4% | #39 of 1,590 | #14 of 193 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 76.7% | #33 of 767 | #6 of 85 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -7.6% | #709 of 992 | #106 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
510
+22 (+5%) vs 2020
-18% since 1990-91, when it was 620
Student : Teacher
20.0:1
was 21.2:1
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 | 510 | 25.5 | 20.0:1 | 77% (391) |
| 2023-24 | 515 | 26.5 | 19.4:1 | 75% (388) |
| 2022-23 | 504 | 27 | 18.7:1 | 70% (352) |
| 2020-21 | 488 | 23 | 21.2:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 552 | 28.6 | 19.3:1 | 81% (447) |
| 2015-16 | 550 | 28 | 19.6:1 | 84% (461) |
| 2010-11 | 560 | 20 | 28.0:1 | 67% (376) |
| 2000-01 | 758 | 34 | 22.3:1 | 41% (311) |
| 1990-91 | 620 | 28 | 22.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Prairie Norton Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 8% (552 to 510); teachers down 11% (28.6 to 25.5).
About Prairie Norton Elementary School
Prairie Norton Elementary School is listed by the National Center for Education Statistics as an elementary school in Columbus, Ohio. It enrolls 510 students in 2024-25. The grades offered are pre-K through 4. The school is 26% above the average for elementary schools in Ohio.
Prairie Norton Elementary School is run by South-Western City, whose 33 schools enroll 21,873 students.
About 39% of students at Prairie Norton Elementary School are Hispanic, the largest single group. It is also 28% White, 18% Black, 10% multiracial, and 5% Asian. Franklin County's residents are about 8% Hispanic, 31 points below the school's share. A diversity index of 72% means there is a 72% chance two randomly chosen students at Prairie Norton Elementary School are from different groups.
There are 25.5 full-time-equivalent teachers at the school, a ratio of 20.0:1. The gap from the 17.9:1 average for elementary schools in Ohio is 2.1 students per teacher. On the income side, 77% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The gap from the 41% average for public schools in Franklin County is 36 points.
Prairie Norton Elementary School earns a C on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 25% of Ohio public elementary schools.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, Prairie Norton Elementary School falls in the middle 80% of Ohio schools: 51.2% actual against 59.9% predicted.
Census data for Franklin County show median household income comes to about $75,176, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 42%, and roughly 11% of residents are in poverty. The county has 402 public schools and about 195,359 students.
Prairie Norton Elementary School's closest public school neighbor is Norton Middle School, about 0.2 miles away. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Ranking the closest schools with test data puts Prairie Norton Elementary School at 2nd of 7.
The school's federal locale classification is Suburb: Large.
Over 4 years, enrollment rose by 22 students, from 488 to 510. Students per teacher dropped from 21.2 in 2020-21 to 20.0 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 South-Western City
- Grove City High SchoolHigh · 1,881 students
- Westland High SchoolHigh · 1,853 students
- Central Crossing High SchoolHigh · 1,674 students
- Franklin Heights High SchoolHigh · 1,398 students
- Buckeye Woods Elementary SchoolElementary · 742 students
- Holt Crossing Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 733 students
Other schools in Columbus
- KIPP ColumbusCombined · 1,945 students
- Worthington Kilbourne High SchoolHigh · 1,623 students
- Great River Connections AcademyCombined · 1,608 students
- Franklin Heights High SchoolHigh · 1,398 students
- Northland High SchoolHigh · 1,029 students
- Hamilton Elementary SchoolElementary · 1,028 students
Nearby schools
- Norton Middle School0.2 mi · 583
- Darby Woods Elementary School0.4 mi · 554
- Westland High School0.5 mi · 1,853
- Galloway Ridge Intermediate School0.6 mi · 705
- Prairie Lincoln Elementary School0.7 mi · 515
- Stiles Elementary School0.9 mi · 511
Frequently asked questions
About Prairie Norton Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Prairie Norton Elementary School?
Prairie Norton Elementary School enrolls approximately 510 students in grades PK-04.
Is Prairie Norton Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Prairie Norton Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-04.
How many teachers does Prairie Norton Elementary School have?
Prairie Norton Elementary School employs 26 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 20.0:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Prairie Norton Elementary School?
At Prairie Norton Elementary School, the student body is approximately 28% White, 39% Hispanic, 18% Black, 5% Asian, 10% Two or more.
Is Prairie Norton Elementary School public or private?
Prairie Norton Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by South-Western City.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.