Enrollment
367
Elementary
DISTRICT 421 · STATE 404
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WESTERVILLE CITY·NCES 390450401963
Whittier Elementary School
130 E Walnut St, Westerville, OH 43081 · (614) 797-7300 · Franklin County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL367 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
19.3:1
19 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 19.5:1 · STATE 17.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
42%
154 students
DISTRICT 44% · STATE 43%
Community
0
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 | 70 | 19% |
| Grade 1 | 69 | 19% |
| Grade 2 | 62 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 61 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 41 | 11% |
| Grade 5 | 64 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (70) is 9% larger than its 5th grade class (64).
Student demographics
59%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 66% · 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
76.6%
OH avg 59.8% . -10.0pp since 2021
Math
78.5%
OH avg 56.1% . -7.5pp since 2021
What this means: On the Ohio's State Tests, Ohio's statewide test, about 77 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 79 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Ohio schools, those numbers are about 60 and 56. Reading and writing scores are down about 10 points since 2021, while math scores are down about 7 points.
Ohio's State Tests results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 76.6% | 78.5% |
| 2023-24 | 83.0% | 80.5% |
| 2022-23 | 86.8% | 84.1% |
| 2021-22 | 86.7% | 86.0% |
% 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
81.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
73.0%
based on OH schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+8.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 81% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 73% 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 Whittier Elementary School
Whittier Elementary School's state test result (81.0% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whittier Elementary School this school | 367 | 42.0% | 81.0% |
| Colonial Hills Elementary School Worthington | 371 | 35.0% | 71.3% |
| Northmoor Elementary School Englewood | 458 | 46.3% | 82.2% |
| Chapelfield Elementary School Gahanna | 409 | 46.2% | 72.3% |
| Davey Elementary School Kent | 437 | 49.4% | 68.2% |
| Royal Manor Elementary School Gahanna | 423 | 48.9% | 62.3% |
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 Whittier Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Ohio | In Franklin County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 81.0% | #224 of 673 | #21 of 81 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 78.5% | #429 of 1,569 ▼ 91 | #32 of 199 ▼ 10 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 76.6% | #386 of 1,569 ▼ 129 | #32 of 199 ▼ 6 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -8.8pp | #59 of 1,514 | #9 of 194 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 367 | #983 of 1,808 | #123 of 225 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 19.3:1 | #1,157 of 1,582 | #119 of 192 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 58.6% | #397 of 1,590 | #99 of 193 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 42.0% | #386 of 767 | #40 of 85 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +11.6% | #269 of 561 | #24 of 52 |
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
367
+40 (+12%) vs 2020
+18% since 1990-91, when it was 311
Student : Teacher
19.3:1
was 20.4:1
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 | 367 | 19.1 | 19.3:1 | 42% (154) |
| 2023-24 | 373 | 19.1 | 19.6:1 | 40% (151) |
| 2022-23 | 374 | 19.2 | 19.5:1 | 25% (95) |
| 2020-21 | 327 | 16 | 20.4:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 329 | 17.1 | 19.2:1 | 18% (58) |
| 2015-16 | 330 | 17 | 19.4:1 | 21% (70) |
| 2010-11 | 341 | 16 | 21.3:1 | 22% (76) |
| 2000-01 | 493 | 19 | 25.9:1 | 4% (22) |
| 1990-91 | 311 | 15 | 20.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Whittier Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 12% (329 to 367); teachers up 11% (17.1 to 19.1).
About Whittier Elementary School
Whittier Elementary School is a public elementary school run by Westerville City in Westerville, Ohio. The school teaches kindergarten through 5 and enrolls 367 students.
Westerville City is the district for Whittier Elementary School. It has 24 schools and 14,589 students.
About 58% of the student body at Whittier Elementary School is White. The remaining students are 25% Black, 9% multiracial, and 6% Hispanic. Franklin County residents are about 59% White, a similar share. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 59%.
There are 19.1 full-time-equivalent teachers at the school, a ratio of 19.3:1. Across elementary schools in Ohio, the average ratio is 17.9:1. Of all students at Whittier Elementary School, 42% are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Public schools in Franklin County average a similar 41%.
Whittier Elementary School posts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 81.0%, compared with a predicted 73.0%. It is not in the top or bottom 10% of Ohio schools on BeatsExpectations.
Census data for Franklin County show the median household earns about $75,176 a year, roughly 42% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting Whittier Elementary School, Franklin County has 402 public schools.
The closest school to Whittier Elementary School is Blendon Middle School, located about 0.2 miles away. Whittier Elementary School is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. Nearby schools average 72.1% on proficiency, and Whittier Elementary School is above that at 81.0%.
Its location is classified as Suburb: Large by the National Center for Education Statistics.
The 2020-21-to-2024-25 change in enrollment was a 12% rise, from 327 to 367. The ratio was 20.4:1 in 2020-21 and 19.3:1 in 2024-25.
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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 Westerville City
- Westerville-North High SchoolHigh · 1,587 students
- Westerville-South High SchoolHigh · 1,509 students
- Westerville Central High SchoolHigh · 1,485 students
- Minerva Park Middle SchoolMiddle · 753 students
- Genoa Middle SchoolMiddle · 702 students
- Walnut Springs Middle SchoolMiddle · 613 students
Other schools in Westerville
- Westerville-North High SchoolHigh · 1,587 students
- Westerville-South High SchoolHigh · 1,509 students
- Westerville Central High SchoolHigh · 1,485 students
- Cornerstone Academy Community SchoolCombined · 1,192 students
- Genoa Middle SchoolMiddle · 702 students
- Walnut Springs Middle SchoolMiddle · 613 students
Other Whittier Elementary schools
34 other US public schools in 17 states are named Whittier Elementary. Whittier Elementary School is the 21st largest of the 35.
- Whittier Elementary SchoolToledo, OH · 485 students
- Whittier Elementary SchoolMassillon, OH · 366 students
- Whittier ElementaryHemet, CA · 816 students
- Whittier ElementaryFrederick, MD · 779 students
- WHITTIER ELEMENTARYKANSAS CITY, MO · 550 students
Nearby schools
- Blendon Middle School0.2 mi · 609
- Hanby Building Elementary School0.3 mi · 363
- Westerville-South High School0.3 mi · 1,509
- Emerson Elementary School0.3 mi · 254
- Cherrington Elementary School1.0 mi · 338
- Mark Twain Elementary School1.2 mi · 398
Frequently asked questions
About Whittier Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Whittier Elementary School?
Whittier Elementary School enrolls approximately 367 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Whittier Elementary School serve?
Whittier Elementary School serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Whittier Elementary School?
Approximately 19.3:1 students per teacher at Whittier Elementary School.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Whittier Elementary School?
At Whittier Elementary School, the student body is approximately 58% White, 6% Hispanic, 25% Black, 1% Asian, 9% Two or more.
Is Whittier Elementary School public or private?
Whittier Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Westerville City.
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