Stiles Elementary School

Stiles Elementary School is a mid-tier elementary-level community in Columbus, Ohio, overseen by South-Western City. The school instructs 511 students in grades pre-K through 4. By comparison, Ohio's public schools average about 404 students each, so Stiles Elementary School sits 26% bigger than that benchmark.

Stiles Elementary School is one of 33 schools operated by South-Western City, a district that instructs 21,873 students overall.

On demographics, Stiles Elementary School reports that the largest single group is Hispanic at 48%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school logs 29% Black, 15% White, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Franklin County as a whole is about 8% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.9:1, putting Stiles Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. About 89% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Franklin County's rate of about 41%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Stiles Elementary School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 55.3%; this one comes in at 32.4%, -22.9 points off the demographic line.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Franklin County indicate median household income runs about $75,176, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Franklin County runs 402 public schools (combined enrollment of about 195,359 students), of which Stiles Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Stiles Family Center, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Stiles Elementary School. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Stiles Elementary School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 48.8%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Over the past 7-year window. Stiles Elementary School's enrollment has declined 18% since 2018, when it stood at 625 (now 511). Over the same period, the White share contracted from 24% to 15%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 20.2:1 in 2018 to 18.6:1 in 2025.

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