Worthington Hills Elementary School

Set in Columbus, Ohio, Worthington Hills Elementary School is a middle-of-the-pack elementary campus, operated by Worthington City. It serves 528 students across grades K through 5. That puts it 31% bigger than the typical public school in Ohio, which averages around 404 students.

Across the 19 schools in Worthington City (10,874 students total), Worthington Hills Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Worthington Hills Elementary School lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (82%); the rest consists of 9% multiracial, 4% Hispanic, 3% Black. By comparison, Franklin County as a whole is about 59% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 17.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 7% of students at Worthington Hills Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is south of Franklin County's rate of about 41%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Worthington Hills Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 86.3%; this one delivers 85.3%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Franklin County indicate median household earnings sit near $75,176, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Franklin County's 402 public schools (combined enrollment of about 195,359 students), Worthington Hills Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Granby Elementary School, roughly 0.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Worthington Hills Elementary School comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 75.7%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Worthington Hills Elementary School's enrollment has remained close to its prior level since 2018, when it stood at 519 (now 528).

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