Wilder Elementary School

Located at 6375 Goldfinch Dr, in Westerville, Ohio, Wilder Elementary School is a reasonably sized primary school that hosts 491 students (grades K through 5), part of Westerville City. By comparison, Ohio's public schools average about 404 students each, so Wilder Elementary School sits 22% larger than that benchmark.

Westerville City comprises 24 schools with combined enrollment of 14,589 students; Wilder Elementary School is among them.

Demographically, Wilder Elementary School reports that the most-represented group is White (42%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 32% Black, 12% multiracial, 8% Hispanic, 6% Asian. By comparison, Franklin County as a whole is about 59% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Wilder Elementary School has 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.2:1. The state averages about 17.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 51% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Franklin County (around 41%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Wilder Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 69.7%; this one delivers 68.8%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Franklin County shows the typical household earns roughly $75,176 per year, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Wilder Elementary School is one of 402 public schools in Franklin County (combined enrollment of about 195,359 students).

Nearest neighbor: Huber Ridge Elementary School, around 0.7 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Wilder Elementary School comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 63.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 4%: 513 students in 2018 compared to 491 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 49% to 42% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 20.2:1 in 2018 to 18.2:1 in 2025.

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