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What's something Whitney Elementary School does better than most schools?
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Enrollment
426
Elementary
DISTRICT 430 · STATE 404
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·STRONGSVILLE CITY·NCES 390448401724
Whitney Elementary School
13548 Whitney Rd, Strongsville, OH 44136 · (440) 572-7180 · Cuyahoga County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL426 STUDENTS
A+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 96% 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.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- B+Three-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
19.4:1
22 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.3:1 · STATE 17.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
28%
119 students
DISTRICT 25% · 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 | 57 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 63 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 69 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 77 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 71 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 89 | 21% |
This year's kindergarten class (57) is 36% smaller than its 5th grade class (89).
Student demographics
57%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 41% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Based on grade levels within Strongsville City. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
Ohio's State Tests 2024-25 . % Proficient or AboveEnglish Language Arts
88.1%
OH avg 59.8% . +3.1pp since 2021
Math
90.8%
OH avg 56.1% . +10.0pp since 2021
What this means: On the Ohio's State Tests, Ohio's statewide test, about 88 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 91 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 3 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 10 points.
Ohio's State Tests results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 88.1% | 90.8% |
| 2023-24 | 87.0% | 85.0% |
| 2022-23 | 85.2% | 85.6% |
| 2021-22 | 85.0% | 80.8% |
% 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
87.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
78.3%
based on OH schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+9.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 87% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 78% 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 Whitney Elementary School
Whitney Elementary School's state test result (87.2% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whitney Elementary School this school | 426 | 27.9% | 87.2% |
| Albert Chapman Elementary School Powell | 529 | 24.8% | 81.0% |
| Symmes Elementary School Loveland | 656 | 26.5% | 85.8% |
| Griffith Thomas Elementary School Dublin | 552 | 36.6% | 77.9% |
| Washington Elementary School Dublin | 462 | 21.9% | 81.9% |
| Mayfield Center Elementary School Mayfield | 468 | 28.0% | 85.2% |
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 Whitney Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Ohio | In Cuyahoga County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 87.2% | #92 of 673 | #13 of 38 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 90.8% | #72 of 1,569 ▲ 121 | #7 of 172 ▲ 14 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 88.1% | #80 of 1,569 ▲ 60 | #10 of 172 ▲ 9 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +6.6pp | #462 of 1,514 | #65 of 167 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 426 | #727 of 1,808 | #59 of 193 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 19.4:1 | #1,194 of 1,582 | #127 of 158 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 57.4% | #425 of 1,590 | #50 of 158 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 27.9% | #551 of 767 | #21 of 42 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +6.2% | #386 of 561 | #47 of 64 |
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
426
0 (0%) vs 2020
-10% since 1990-91, when it was 473
Student : Teacher
19.4:1
was 21.3:1
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 | 426 | 21.9 | 19.4:1 | 28% (119) |
| 2023-24 | 458 | 22.4 | 20.4:1 | 21% (95) |
| 2022-23 | 449 | 22.9 | 19.6:1 | 22% (97) |
| 2020-21 | 426 | 20 | 21.3:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 401 | 20.7 | 19.4:1 | 33% (133) |
| 2015-16 | 282 | 16 | 17.6:1 | 19% (53) |
| 2010-11 | 370 | 19 | 19.5:1 | 15% (56) |
| 2000-01 | 447 | 25 | 17.9:1 | 5% (21) |
| 1990-91 | 473 | 17 | 27.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Whitney Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 6% (401 to 426); teachers up 6% (20.7 to 21.9).
About Whitney Elementary School
Whitney Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school in Strongsville, Ohio, one of the schools in Strongsville City. Its enrollment is 426 students, spread over kindergarten through 5.
Strongsville City serves 5,757 students across 9 schools.
The share of White students at Whitney Elementary School is 61%, a majority. The remaining students are 22% Asian, 8% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, and 4% Black. Census estimates put Cuyahoga County at about 58% White, close to the school's figure. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 57, compared with 70 nationally.
The school had 21.9 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25. Its student-to-teacher ratio is 19.4:1. By comparison, the average for elementary schools in Ohio is 17.9:1. The school reported 28% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. The average for public schools in Cuyahoga County is similar, at 27%.
On the allk12 Grade, Whitney Elementary School lands at A+, ahead of 96% of Ohio public elementary schools.
Based on student poverty, the model expects 78.3% at Whitney Elementary School; the school's average proficiency rate across its state test results is 87.2%.
In the surrounding county, Cuyahoga County, median household income comes to about $64,468, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 37% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 12%. The county's public schools total 352, with about 155,924 students.
Big Creek Elementary School is the nearest public school to Whitney Elementary School, about 1.9 miles away. Whitney Elementary School is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles.
By NCES locale, the school is Suburb: Large, or in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment went from 426 in 2020-21 to 426 in 2024-25, a change of zero students. From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio dropped from 21.3:1 to 19.4:1.
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Cuyahoga County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,245,873
Census ACS
Median income
$64,468
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
37%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
12%
Below federal line
Schools in county
352
155,924 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Strongsville City
- Strongsville High SchoolHigh · 1,842 students
- Strongsville Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,327 students
- Kinsner Elementary SchoolElementary · 643 students
- Muraski Elementary SchoolElementary · 522 students
- Chapman Elementary SchoolElementary · 446 students
- Surrarrer Elementary SchoolElementary · 399 students
Other schools in Strongsville
- Strongsville High SchoolHigh · 1,842 students
- Strongsville Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,327 students
- Kinsner Elementary SchoolElementary · 643 students
- Muraski Elementary SchoolElementary · 522 students
- Chapman Elementary SchoolElementary · 446 students
- Surrarrer Elementary SchoolElementary · 399 students
Other Whitney Elementary schools
6 other US public schools in 7 states are named Whitney Elementary. Whitney Elementary School is the 4th largest of the 7.
- Whitney Elementary SchoolChicago, IL · 559 students
- WHITNEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLBOISE, ID · 469 students
- Whitney ElementaryYakima, WA · 433 students
- Whitney Elementary SchoolLas Vegas, NV · 410 students
- Whitney Elementary SchoolWHITNEY, TX · 387 students
Nearby schools
- Big Creek Elementary School1.9 mi · 555
- Pleasant Valley Elementary School2.4 mi · 971
- Berea-Midpark Middle School2.4 mi · 1,522
- Parma Virtual Learning Academy2.5 mi · 54
- Valley Forge High School2.6 mi · 1,402
- Strongsville Middle School3.1 mi · 1,327
Frequently asked questions
About Whitney Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Whitney Elementary School?
Whitney Elementary School enrolls approximately 426 students in grades KG-05.
Is Whitney Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Whitney Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
How many students per teacher at Whitney Elementary School?
Approximately 19.4:1 students per teacher at Whitney Elementary School.
What is the student diversity at Whitney Elementary School?
Student demographics at Whitney Elementary School are roughly 61% White, 8% Hispanic, 4% Black, 22% Asian, 5% Two or more.
What district is Whitney Elementary School in?
Whitney Elementary School is part of Strongsville City.
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