Worthington Estates Elementary School

Worthington Estates Elementary School is an elementary-level community of mid-tier scale in Worthington, Ohio, run under Worthington City, works with 555 students in grades K through 5. That puts it 37% above the typical public school in Ohio, which averages around 404 students.

Worthington Estates Elementary School is one of 19 schools operated by Worthington City, a district that hosts 10,874 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Worthington Estates Elementary School lists that the largest single group is White, at 57% of enrollment. Other groups include 20% Black, 10% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 4% Asian. That composition is broadly in line with Franklin County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, Worthington Estates Elementary School records 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.1:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.9:1 average. Around 32% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Franklin County runs at roughly 41%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Worthington Estates Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 76.6%, the actual is 75.5%, a residual of -1.1 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Franklin County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $75,176 per year, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across Franklin County's 402 public schools (combined enrollment of about 195,359 students), Worthington Estates Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Worthingway Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Worthington Estates Elementary School comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 78.1%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 13%: 638 students in 2018 compared to 555 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 11% to 20% across the same window.

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