Silver Creek Elementary School

Silver Creek Elementary School operates as a heavily attended primary school in Toledo, Ohio, operated by Washington Local. Current enrollment sits at 679 students spanning grades K through 6. By comparison, Ohio's public schools average about 404 students each, so Silver Creek Elementary School sits 68% larger than that benchmark.

Washington Local comprises 11 schools with combined enrollment of 6,661 students; Silver Creek Elementary School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Silver Creek Elementary School reports that the most-represented group is White (52%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder consists of 16% Hispanic, 15% Black, 15% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 68% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 22.3:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.9:1, putting Silver Creek Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 73% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Lucas County's rate of about 44%.

After controlling for student poverty, Silver Creek Elementary School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 61.3%; this one comes in at 43.8%, -17.5 points off the demographic line.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Lucas County indicate the typical household earns roughly $62,224 per year, roughly 29% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. In all, Lucas County runs 143 public schools (combined enrollment of about 73,839 students), of which Silver Creek Elementary School is one.

Longfellow Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Silver Creek Elementary School. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Silver Creek Elementary School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 54.7%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 85%: 368 students in 2018 compared to 679 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 66% to 52% across the same window. Class-load math has grew: from 21.0:1 in 2018 to 22.3:1 in 2025.

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