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Teachers: what resource would make the biggest difference at Walnut Creek Elementary this year?
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Enrollment
546
Elementary
DISTRICT 583 · STATE 404
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·OLENTANGY LOCAL·NCES 390467604602
Walnut Creek Elementary
5600 Grand Oak Blvd, Galena, OH 43021 · (740) 657-4750 · Delaware County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL546 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 69% of Ohio public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- CThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Ohio public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
17.5:1
31 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 19.7:1 · STATE 17.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
9%
47 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 | 54 | 10% |
| Grade 1 | 91 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 75 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 105 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 91 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 129 | 24% |
This year's kindergarten class (54) is 58% smaller than its 5th grade class (129).
Student demographics
43%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
87.1%
OH avg 59.8% . +1.5pp since 2021
Math
82.9%
OH avg 56.1% . -1.1pp since 2021
What this means: On the Ohio's State Tests, Ohio's statewide test, about 87 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 83 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Ohio schools, those numbers are about 60 and 56. Reading and writing scores are up about 1 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 | 87.1% | 82.9% |
| 2023-24 | 85.1% | 82.4% |
| 2022-23 | 85.5% | 84.5% |
| 2021-22 | 85.6% | 84.0% |
% 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
84.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
85.5%
based on OH schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-0.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 85% 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 Walnut Creek Elementary
Walnut Creek Elementary's state test result (84.7% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Walnut Creek Elementary this school | 546 | 8.6% | 84.7% |
| Indian Hill Elementary School Cincinnati | 539 | 6.9% | 87.7% |
| Indian Hill Primary Elementary School Cincinnati | 486 | 7.4% | N/A |
| Johnnycake Corners Elementary School Galena | 611 | 6.5% | 85.5% |
| Tyler Run Elementary School Powell | 606 | 6.3% | 92.4% |
| Eli Pinney Elementary School Dublin | 585 | 5.3% | 89.3% |
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 Walnut Creek Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Ohio | In Delaware County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 84.7% | #149 of 673 | #14 of 33 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 82.9% | #291 of 1,569 ▼ 20 | #16 of 33 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 87.1% | #97 of 1,569 ▲ 87 | #7 of 33 ▲ 9 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +0.2pp | #1,029 of 1,514 | #13 of 33 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 546 | #361 of 1,808 | #21 of 35 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.5:1 | #775 of 1,582 | #10 of 34 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 42.5% | #670 of 1,590 | #20 of 34 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 8.6% | #729 of 767 | #26 of 34 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -14.8% | #427 of 992 | #11 of 17 |
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
546
-123 (-18%) vs 2020
-7% since 2010-11, when it was 590
Student : Teacher
17.5:1
was 21.6:1
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 | 546 | 31.2 | 17.5:1 | 9% (47) |
| 2023-24 | 591 | 31.4 | 18.8:1 | 10% (58) |
| 2022-23 | 633 | 31.6 | 20.0:1 | 4% (23) |
| 2020-21 | 669 | 31 | 21.6:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 641 | 29.9 | 21.4:1 | 2% (13) |
| 2015-16 | 635 | 31 | 20.5:1 | 3% (18) |
| 2010-11 | 590 | 28 | 21.1:1 | 2% (12) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Walnut Creek Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 15% (641 to 546); teachers up 4% (29.9 to 31.2).
About Walnut Creek Elementary
Walnut Creek Elementary is a medium-sized elementary school. Its address is in Galena, Ohio. The grade span is pre-K through 5, and enrollment is 546 students. The average among elementary schools in Ohio is roughly 404 students; this school is 35% above that.
Olentangy Local (29 schools, 24,133 students) runs Walnut Creek Elementary.
A majority of students at Walnut Creek Elementary, 75%, are White. Other reported shares: 10% multiracial, 8% Asian, 5% Hispanic, and 3% Black. The chance that two students picked at random at Walnut Creek Elementary belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 43%.
At Walnut Creek Elementary, 31.2 full-time-equivalent teachers work with students, a ratio of about 17.5:1. Elementary schools in Ohio average about 17.9:1, a similar figure. Roughly 9% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch. The 20% average for public schools in Delaware County is 11 points higher.
allk12 grades Walnut Creek Elementary a B+. The grade compares the school only with Ohio public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
Walnut Creek Elementary posts an average proficiency rate on state tests of 84.7%, compared with a predicted 85.5%. It is not in the top or bottom 10% of Ohio schools on BeatsExpectations.
Delaware County census figures show that median household income is about $133,540, roughly 59% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 3%. Walnut Creek Elementary is among the 59 public schools in Delaware County.
The closest other public school is Freedom Trail Elementary, about 1.3 miles away. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Walnut Creek Elementary ranks 3rd of 9 among nearby schools on average proficiency, with 84.7% against a local average of 81.3%.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Suburb: Large: in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Walnut Creek Elementary had 669 students in 2020-21 and 546 in 2024-25, an 18% decrease. Its ratio of students to teachers was 21.6:1 in 2020-21, and 17.5:1 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 Galena
- Berkshire Middle SchoolMiddle · 883 students
- Johnnycake Corners Elementary SchoolElementary · 611 students
- Hylen Souders Elementary SchoolElementary · 289 students
Other Walnut Creek Elementary schools
6 other US public schools in 5 states are named Walnut Creek Elementary. Walnut Creek Elementary is the 3rd largest of the 7.
- Walnut Creek Elementary SchoolWalnut Creek, OH · 142 students
- Walnut Creek ElementaryMcDonough, GA · 712 students
- Walnut Creek ElementaryRaleigh, NC · 574 students
- Walnut Creek Elementary SchoolAUSTIN, TX · 496 students
- WALNUT CREEK ELEMENTARYPAPILLION, NE · 451 students
Nearby schools
- Freedom Trail Elementary1.3 mi · 605
- Fouse Elementary School1.7 mi · 459
- Genoa Middle School1.8 mi · 702
- Orange High School2.2 mi · 1,936
- Olentangy Orange Middle School2.4 mi · 1,056
- Alcott Elementary School2.6 mi · 537
Frequently asked questions
About Walnut Creek ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Walnut Creek Elementary?
Walnut Creek Elementary enrolls approximately 546 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Walnut Creek Elementary serve?
Walnut Creek Elementary serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many teachers does Walnut Creek Elementary have?
Walnut Creek Elementary employs 31 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 17.5:1.
What is the student diversity at Walnut Creek Elementary?
Student demographics at Walnut Creek Elementary are roughly 75% White, 5% Hispanic, 3% Black, 8% Asian, 10% Two or more.
What district is Walnut Creek Elementary in?
Walnut Creek Elementary is part of Olentangy Local.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.