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Parents: what's one thing you'd want the West Franklin Elementary School administration to hear?
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Enrollment
488
Elementary
DISTRICT 450 · STATE 404
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SOUTH-WESTERN CITY·NCES 390448001678
West Franklin Elementary School
3501 Briggs Rd, Columbus, OH 43204 · (614) 279-0646 · Franklin County
GRADES KG–04ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL488 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
18.6:1
26 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 20.4:1 · STATE 17.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
90%
440 students
DISTRICT 66% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 74 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 100 | 20% |
| Grade 2 | 110 | 23% |
| Grade 3 | 116 | 24% |
| Grade 4 | 88 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (74) is 16% smaller than its 4th grade class (88).
Student demographics
71%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 67% · 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
45.1%
OH avg 59.8% . +0.9pp since 2021
Math
52.0%
OH avg 56.1% . +4.5pp since 2021
What this means: On the Ohio's State Tests, Ohio's statewide test, about 45 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 52 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Ohio schools, those numbers are about 60 and 56. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2021, while math scores are up about 5 points.
Ohio's State Tests results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 45.1% | 52.0% |
| 2023-24 | 43.8% | 47.0% |
| 2022-23 | 50.4% | 56.0% |
| 2021-22 | 44.2% | 47.5% |
% 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
47.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
54.8%
based on OH schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-7.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 47% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 55% 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 West Franklin Elementary School
West Franklin Elementary School's state test result (47.0% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Franklin Elementary School this school | 488 | 90.2% | 47.0% |
| Finland Elementary School Columbus | 371 | 90.8% | 43.6% |
| Fairfield Central Elementary School Fairfield | 756 | 81.0% | 61.0% |
| Stiles Elementary School Columbus | 511 | 88.6% | 32.4% |
| Prairie Norton Elementary School Columbus | 510 | 76.7% | 51.2% |
| Prairie Lincoln Elementary School Columbus | 515 | 78.8% | 42.4% |
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 West Franklin Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Ohio | In Franklin County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 47.0% | #663 of 673 | #76 of 81 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 52.0% | #1,056 of 1,569 ▲ 21 | #90 of 199 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 45.1% | #1,162 of 1,569 ▲ 71 | #114 of 199 ▲ 15 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +2.7pp | #784 of 1,514 | #115 of 194 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 488 | #514 of 1,808 | #63 of 225 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.6:1 | #1,015 of 1,582 | #100 of 192 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 71.0% | #78 of 1,590 | #23 of 193 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 90.2% | #10 of 767 | #2 of 85 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -22.3% | #201 of 992 | #36 of 135 |
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
488
-40 (-8%) vs 2020
-19% since 1990-91, when it was 604
Student : Teacher
18.6:1
was 20.3:1
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 | 488 | 26.3 | 18.6:1 | 90% (440) |
| 2023-24 | 484 | 28.3 | 17.1:1 | 88% (428) |
| 2022-23 | 476 | 24.9 | 19.1:1 | 85% (405) |
| 2020-21 | 528 | 26 | 20.3:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 628 | 30 | 20.9:1 | 88% (553) |
| 2015-16 | 631 | 31 | 20.4:1 | 82% (515) |
| 2010-11 | 491 | 23 | 21.4:1 | 76% (372) |
| 2000-01 | 715 | 36 | 19.9:1 | 42% (301) |
| 1990-91 | 604 | 28 | 21.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for West Franklin Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 22% (628 to 488); teachers down 12% (30 to 26.3).
About West Franklin Elementary School
A medium-sized elementary school in Columbus, Ohio, West Franklin Elementary School is part of South-Western City. The latest federal count shows 488 students in kindergarten through 4. Against the 404-student average for elementary schools in Ohio, enrollment here is 21% higher.
South-Western City has 21,873 students in 33 schools, and West Franklin Elementary School is one of those schools.
By race and ethnicity, the largest group at West Franklin Elementary School is Black (38%). Other groups make up 31% Hispanic, 21% White, 7% multiracial, and 2% Asian. Franklin County as a whole is about 23% Black, so the school's share is higher. The chance that two students picked at random at West Franklin Elementary School belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 71%.
West Franklin Elementary School's 26.3 full-time-equivalent teachers put its ratio at 18.6:1. That ratio is over the 17.9:1 average for elementary schools in Ohio. The school's rate of free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is 90%. The 41% average for public schools in Franklin County is 49 points lower.
West Franklin Elementary School is 7.8 points below its predicted average proficiency rate on state tests (47.0% versus 54.8%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in Ohio.
West Franklin Elementary School is located in Franklin County, where median household income is about $75,176, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 42%, and about 11% of people live in poverty. West Franklin Elementary School is one of 402 public schools in Franklin County, which together enroll about 195,359 students.
Nearest public school: Franklin Heights High School, about 0.3 miles away. The five-mile area around West Franklin Elementary School holds at least 8 other public schools.
The school's locale code, Suburb: Large, means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
West Franklin Elementary School saw enrollment fall 8% between 2020-21 and 2024-25. Its ratio of students to teachers was 20.3:1 in 2020-21, and 18.6:1 in 2024-25.
Topics for discussion here include school safety, transportation, and start times. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
Franklin County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,333,048
Census ACS
Median income
$75,176
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
42%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
402
195,359 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in South-Western City
- Grove City High SchoolHigh · 1,881 students
- Westland High SchoolHigh · 1,853 students
- Central Crossing High SchoolHigh · 1,674 students
- Franklin Heights High SchoolHigh · 1,398 students
- Buckeye Woods Elementary SchoolElementary · 742 students
- Holt Crossing Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 733 students
Other schools in Columbus
- KIPP ColumbusCombined · 1,945 students
- Worthington Kilbourne High SchoolHigh · 1,623 students
- Great River Connections AcademyCombined · 1,608 students
- Franklin Heights High SchoolHigh · 1,398 students
- Northland High SchoolHigh · 1,029 students
- Hamilton Elementary SchoolElementary · 1,028 students
Nearby schools
- Franklin Heights High School0.3 mi · 1,398
- Wedgewood Middle School0.3 mi · 476
- Columbus Preparatory and Fitness Academy0.4 mi · 397
- Eakin Elementary School0.5 mi · 242
- Sullivant Avenue Community School0.6 mi · 301
- Georgian Heights Alt Elementary School0.7 mi · 484
Frequently asked questions
About West Franklin Elementary SchoolHow many students attend West Franklin Elementary School?
West Franklin Elementary School enrolls approximately 488 students in grades KG-04.
What grades does West Franklin Elementary School serve?
West Franklin Elementary School serves grades KG-04.
What is the student-teacher ratio at West Franklin Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at West Franklin Elementary School is approximately 18.6:1 (26 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at West Franklin Elementary School?
At West Franklin Elementary School, the student body is approximately 21% White, 31% Hispanic, 38% Black, 2% Asian, 7% Two or more.
What district is West Franklin Elementary School in?
West Franklin Elementary School is part of South-Western City.
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