Windermere Elementary School

As a moderately sized elementary-level community in Upper Arlington, Ohio, Windermere Elementary School hosts 555 students from grades K through 5, overseen by Upper Arlington City. By comparison, Ohio's public schools average about 404 students each, so Windermere Elementary School sits 37% above that benchmark.

Within Upper Arlington City, which oversees 10 schools and 6,669 students, Windermere Elementary School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Windermere Elementary School shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (86%); the rest looks like 5% Asian, 4% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 59% White, putting the school's mix considerably more White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Windermere Elementary School has 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 26.9:1. The state averages around 17.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 4% of students at Windermere Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is below Franklin County's rate of about 41%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Windermere Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 87.2%, the actual is 93.5%, a residual of +6.4 points.

In the broader community, census data for Franklin County shows median household income runs about $75,176, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Franklin County runs 402 public schools (combined enrollment of about 195,359 students), of which Windermere Elementary School is one.

Hastings Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Windermere Elementary School. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Windermere Elementary School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 82.5%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Windermere Elementary School has edged up 23%, going from 453 students in 2018 to 555 in 2025. Class-load math has loosened: from 17.6:1 in 2018 to 26.9:1 in 2025.

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