Stewart Alternative Elementary School

Stewart Alternative Elementary School is one of the cozy primary schools in Columbus, Ohio, part of Columbus City Schools District, with 319 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 6. By comparison, Ohio's public schools average about 404 students each, so Stewart Alternative Elementary School sits 21% below that benchmark.

Across the 115 schools in Columbus City Schools District (46,249 students total), Stewart Alternative Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Stewart Alternative Elementary School logs that the largest single group is Black, at 79% of enrollment. The remainder consists of 8% multiracial, 8% White, 4% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 23% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 24.5:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.9:1 average.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Franklin County indicate the typical household earns roughly $75,176 per year, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Stewart Alternative Elementary School is one of 402 public schools in Franklin County (combined enrollment of about 195,359 students).

The closest other public school is Siebert Elementary School, roughly 0.5 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Stewart Alternative Elementary School.

Stewart Alternative Elementary School operates from a high-density location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 6%: 340 students in 2018 compared to 319 in 2025. Class-load math has widened: from 20.0:1 in 2018 to 24.5:1 in 2025.

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