Tremont Elementary School

Tremont Elementary School is one of the well-populated K-5 schools in Upper Arlington, Ohio, run under Upper Arlington City, with 694 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. That puts it 72% bigger than the typical public school in Ohio, which averages around 404 students.

Upper Arlington City runs 10 schools in total, collectively educating 6,669 students. Tremont Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Tremont Elementary School records that 84% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 7% Asian, 3% multiracial, 3% Hispanic, 3% Black. That is noticeably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 59%.

On the resource side, Tremont Elementary School logs 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.5:1. The state averages about 17.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 7% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably below Franklin County's rate of about 41%.

With demographic context factored in, Tremont Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 86.1%; this one delivers 81.6%.

In the area at large, Franklin County reports that median household income runs about $75,176, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Franklin County runs 402 public schools (combined enrollment of about 195,359 students), of which Tremont Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Upper Arlington High School, roughly 0.5 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Tremont Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Tremont Elementary School comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 86.4%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 8%: 644 students in 2018 compared to 694 in 2025.

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