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Enrollment
528
Elementary
DISTRICT 426 · STATE 404
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WORTHINGTON CITY·NCES 390451302041
Worthington Hills Elementary School
1221 Candlewood Dr, Columbus, OH 43235 · (614) 450-4700 · Franklin County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL528 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 68% 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.
- CBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- C-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
18.3:1
29 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.7:1 · STATE 17.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
7%
35 students
DISTRICT 30% · 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 | 79 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 83 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 95 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 95 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 79 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 97 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (79) is 19% smaller than its 5th grade class (97).
Student demographics
31%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 54% · 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
86.6%
OH avg 59.8% . -3.5pp since 2021
Math
85.0%
OH avg 56.1% . +0.3pp since 2021
What this means: On the Ohio's State Tests, Ohio's statewide test, about 87 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 85 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 4 points since 2021, while math scores have held steady.
Ohio's State Tests results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 86.6% | 85.0% |
| 2023-24 | 87.6% | 84.8% |
| 2022-23 | 91.6% | 89.0% |
| 2021-22 | 90.1% | 84.7% |
% 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
85.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
86.3%
based on OH schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-1.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 85% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 86% 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 Worthington Hills Elementary School
Worthington Hills Elementary School's state test result (85.3% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Worthington Hills Elementary School this school | 528 | 6.6% | 85.3% |
| Wilson Elementary School Cincinnati | 635 | 5.5% | 91.0% |
| Normandy Elementary School Bay Village | 477 | 6.3% | N/A |
| Granger Elementary School Medina | 512 | 11.1% | 91.7% |
| Gurney Elementary School Chagrin Falls | 478 | 6.3% | 97.5% |
| Sharon Elementary School Wadsworth | 627 | 8.9% | 90.6% |
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 Worthington Hills Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Ohio | In Franklin County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 85.3% | #130 of 673 | #13 of 81 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 85.0% | #221 of 1,569 ▼ 18 | #10 of 199 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 86.6% | #109 of 1,569 ▲ 15 | #11 of 199 no change |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -1.6pp | #347 of 1,514 | #38 of 194 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 528 | #415 of 1,808 | #41 of 225 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.3:1 | #954 of 1,582 | #92 of 192 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 31.0% | #904 of 1,590 | #172 of 193 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 6.6% | #742 of 767 | #79 of 85 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +1.7% | #507 of 561 | #50 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
528
-18 (-3%) vs 2020
-17% since 1990-91, when it was 634
Student : Teacher
18.3:1
was 17.6:1
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 | 528 | 28.9 | 18.3:1 | 7% (35) |
| 2023-24 | 538 | 28.9 | 18.6:1 | 5% (25) |
| 2022-23 | 532 | 27.9 | 19.1:1 | 3% (17) |
| 2020-21 | 546 | 31 | 17.6:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 519 | 29.1 | 17.9:1 | 5% (25) |
| 2015-16 | 459 | 27 | 17.0:1 | 4% (18) |
| 2010-11 | 454 | 27 | 16.8:1 | 8% (36) |
| 2000-01 | 441 | 25 | 17.6:1 | 1% (3) |
| 1990-91 | 634 | 28 | 22.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Worthington Hills Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 2% (519 to 528); teachers down 1% (29.1 to 28.9).
About Worthington Hills Elementary School
Worthington Hills Elementary School is an elementary school located in Columbus, Ohio, in Franklin County. Total enrollment is 528 students, and the grades served are kindergarten through 5. It has 31% more students than the average for elementary schools in Ohio (about 404).
Worthington Hills Elementary School is part of a district of 19 schools: Worthington City, with 10,874 students.
The share of students at Worthington Hills Elementary School who are White is 82%. Other groups make up 9% multiracial, 4% Hispanic, and 3% Black. County-wide, 59% of Franklin County residents are White. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 31%.
Its ratio of 18.3:1 is based on 28.9 full-time-equivalent teachers. It is about the same as the 17.9:1 average for elementary schools in Ohio. In all, 7% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. That is lower than the 41% average for public schools in Franklin County.
Worthington Hills Elementary School earns a B+ on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 68% of Ohio public elementary schools.
Worthington Hills Elementary School scores 85.3% on state tests, averaged across results. The predicted figure, based on its student poverty level, is 86.3%.
The school's county is Franklin County. According to Census Bureau estimates, median household income comes to about $75,176, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 11% of people live in poverty. There are 402 public schools in the county, enrolling about 195,359, Worthington Hills Elementary School among them.
Worthington Hills Elementary School is about 0.3 miles from Granby Elementary School, its nearest public school. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Nearby schools average 75.7% on proficiency, and Worthington Hills Elementary School is above that at 85.3%.
Federal data place Worthington Hills Elementary School in the Suburb: Large locale, which means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Over the 4 years from 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment fell 3%.
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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 Worthington City
- Thomas Worthington High SchoolHigh · 1,712 students
- Worthington Kilbourne High SchoolHigh · 1,623 students
- Worthingway Middle SchoolMiddle · 640 students
- Mccord Middle SchoolMiddle · 636 students
- Worthington Estates Elementary SchoolElementary · 555 students
- Perry Middle SchoolMiddle · 528 students
Other schools in Columbus
- KIPP ColumbusCombined · 1,945 students
- Worthington Kilbourne High SchoolHigh · 1,623 students
- Great River Connections AcademyCombined · 1,608 students
- Franklin Heights High SchoolHigh · 1,398 students
- Northland High SchoolHigh · 1,029 students
- Hamilton Elementary SchoolElementary · 1,028 students
Nearby schools
- Granby Elementary School0.3 mi · 404
- Mccord Middle School0.4 mi · 636
- Worthington Kilbourne High School0.6 mi · 1,623
- Liberty Elementary School0.7 mi · 425
- Sutter Park Preschool0.8 mi · 321
- Bluffsview Elementary School0.9 mi · 399
Frequently asked questions
About Worthington Hills Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Worthington Hills Elementary School?
Worthington Hills Elementary School enrolls approximately 528 students in grades KG-05.
Is Worthington Hills Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Worthington Hills Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
How many teachers does Worthington Hills Elementary School have?
Worthington Hills Elementary School employs 29 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 18.3:1.
What is the student diversity at Worthington Hills Elementary School?
Student demographics at Worthington Hills Elementary School are roughly 82% White, 4% Hispanic, 3% Black, 2% Asian, 9% Two or more.
What district is Worthington Hills Elementary School in?
Worthington Hills Elementary School is part of Worthington City.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.