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Enrollment
642
Elementary
DISTRICT 583 · STATE 404
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·OLENTANGY LOCAL·NCES 390467601414
Scioto Ridge Elementary School
8715 Big Bear Ave, Powell, OH 43065 · (740) 657-4800 · Delaware County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL642 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
19.6:1
33 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 19.7:1 · STATE 17.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
7%
48 students
DISTRICT 12% · 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 | 1 | 0% |
| Kindergarten | 61 | 10% |
| Grade 1 | 116 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 91 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 106 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 127 | 20% |
| Grade 5 | 140 | 22% |
This year's kindergarten class (61) is 56% smaller than its 5th grade class (140).
Student demographics
49%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 58% · 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
85.5%
OH avg 59.8% . -6.0pp since 2021
Math
90.6%
OH avg 56.1% . -1.4pp since 2021
What this means: On the Ohio's State Tests, Ohio's statewide test, about 86 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 91 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 6 points since 2021, while math scores are down about 1 points.
Ohio's State Tests results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 85.5% | 90.6% |
| 2023-24 | 88.6% | 86.7% |
| 2022-23 | 92.4% | 91.4% |
| 2021-22 | 91.5% | 92.0% |
% 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
88.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
86.0%
based on OH schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+2.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 89% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 86% 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 Scioto Ridge Elementary School
Scioto Ridge Elementary School's state test result (88.6% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scioto Ridge Elementary School this school | 642 | 7.5% | 88.6% |
| Scottish Corners Elementary School Dublin | 492 | 9.1% | 85.4% |
| Montgomery Elementary School Cincinnati | 566 | 14.0% | 94.2% |
| Greensview Elementary School Upper Arlington | 483 | 9.1% | 89.7% |
| Leighton Elementary School Aurora | 657 | 9.6% | 84.9% |
| Freedom Trail Elementary Lewis | 605 | 16.0% | 82.4% |
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 Scioto Ridge Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Ohio | In Delaware County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 88.6% | #69 of 673 | #7 of 33 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 90.6% | #75 of 1,569 ▲ 73 | #4 of 33 ▲ 7 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 85.5% | #129 of 1,569 ▼ 39 | #10 of 33 ▼ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -3.7pp | #222 of 1,514 | #5 of 33 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 642 | #222 of 1,808 | #13 of 35 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 19.6:1 | #1,211 of 1,582 | #18 of 34 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 49.0% | #564 of 1,590 | #16 of 34 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 7.5% | #734 of 767 | #27 of 34 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +13.0% | #249 of 561 | #10 of 15 |
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
642
+55 (+9%) vs 2020
-8% since 2000-01, when it was 700
Student : Teacher
19.6:1
was 18.3:1
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 | 642 | 32.8 | 19.6:1 | 7% (48) |
| 2023-24 | 702 | 35 | 20.1:1 | 9% (64) |
| 2022-23 | 515 | 31.8 | 16.2:1 | 7% (37) |
| 2020-21 | 587 | 32 | 18.3:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 568 | 27.1 | 21.0:1 | 6% (35) |
| 2015-16 | 505 | 26 | 19.4:1 | 6% (28) |
| 2010-11 | 630 | 32 | 19.7:1 | 6% (40) |
| 2000-01 | 700 | 36 | 19.4:1 | 1% (10) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Scioto Ridge Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 13% (568 to 642); teachers up 21% (27.1 to 32.8).
About Scioto Ridge Elementary School
Scioto Ridge Elementary School is a high-enrollment elementary school in Powell, Ohio, (ZIP code 43065). The school serves pre-K through 5. Enrollment is 642 students. By comparison, elementary schools in Ohio enroll about 404 students on average.
Olentangy Local (29 schools, 24,133 students) runs Scioto Ridge Elementary School.
At Scioto Ridge Elementary School, 69% of students are White. After that, the student body is 18% Asian, 6% multiracial, and 5% Hispanic. Census figures show Delaware County is about 80% White. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Scioto Ridge Elementary School scores 49%.
Scioto Ridge Elementary School has 32.8 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of about 19.6:1. Elementary schools in Ohio average 17.9:1, 1.7 fewer students per teacher than here. A common income measure, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, is 7% at Scioto Ridge Elementary School. On average, public schools in Delaware County report 20%.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, Scioto Ridge Elementary School falls in the middle 80% of Ohio schools: 88.6% actual against 86.0% predicted.
Delaware County is the school's county. There, the median household earns about $133,540 a year, roughly 59% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 3%. Scioto Ridge Elementary School shares Delaware County with 58 other public schools.
Scioto Ridge Elementary School's nearest public school is Tyler Run Elementary School (about 1.2 miles). In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Scioto Ridge Elementary School. On state test proficiency, Scioto Ridge Elementary School ranks 4th in a group of 9 nearby schools.
On the NCES locale scale, the school is Suburb: Large.
Enrollment rose 9% over 4 years, reaching 642 in 2024-25. The ratio was 18.3:1 in 2020-21 and 19.6:1 in 2024-25.
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Delaware County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
226,834
Census ACS
Median income
$133,540
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
59%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
3%
Below federal line
Schools in county
59
44,100 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Olentangy Local
- Orange High SchoolHigh · 1,936 students
- Olentangy Liberty High SchoolHigh · 1,847 students
- Olentangy Berlin High SchoolHigh · 1,823 students
- Olentangy High SchoolHigh · 1,760 students
- Olentangy Orange Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,056 students
- Olentangy Shanahan Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,029 students
Other schools in Powell
- Olentangy Liberty High SchoolHigh · 1,847 students
- Olentangy Liberty Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,005 students
- Hyatts Middle SchoolMiddle · 835 students
- Wyandot Run Elementary SchoolElementary · 733 students
- Liberty Tree Elementary SchoolElementary · 727 students
- Indian Springs ElementaryElementary · 721 students
Nearby schools
- Tyler Run Elementary School1.2 mi · 606
- Wyandot Run Elementary School1.4 mi · 733
- Olentangy Liberty Middle School1.5 mi · 1,005
- Albert Chapman Elementary School1.7 mi · 529
- Olentangy Liberty High School2.6 mi · 1,847
- Indian Springs Elementary2.6 mi · 721
Frequently asked questions
About Scioto Ridge Elementary SchoolHow large is Scioto Ridge Elementary School?
Scioto Ridge Elementary School enrolls approximately 642 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Scioto Ridge Elementary School serve?
Scioto Ridge Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Scioto Ridge Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Scioto Ridge Elementary School is approximately 19.6:1 (33 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Scioto Ridge Elementary School?
Student demographics at Scioto Ridge Elementary School are roughly 69% White, 5% Hispanic, 2% Black, 18% Asian, 6% Two or more.
What district is Scioto Ridge Elementary School in?
Scioto Ridge Elementary School is part of Olentangy Local.
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