Whiteford Elementary School

Whiteford Elementary School, a moderately sized elementary school in Toledo, Ohio, overseen by Sylvania Schools, serves 418 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

Sylvania Schools comprises 13 schools with combined enrollment of 7,699 students; Whiteford Elementary School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Whiteford Elementary School records that 73% of the student body identifies as White; the rest comes out to 10% Hispanic, 8% Black, 8% multiracial.

In terms of school funding signals, Whiteford Elementary School records 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.9:1, putting Whiteford Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 49% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Whiteford Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 70.5%, the actual is 66.9%, a residual of -3.6 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Lucas County indicate median household earnings sit near $62,224, 29% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Lucas County runs 143 public schools (combined enrollment of about 73,839 students), of which Whiteford Elementary School is one.

Sylvania Arbor Hills Junior High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Whiteford Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Whiteford Elementary School comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 69.9%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Whiteford Elementary School has ticked down 14%, going from 484 students in 2018 to 418 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 23.1:1 in 2018 to 13.7:1 today.

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