Enrollment
378
Elementary
DISTRICT 426 · STATE 404
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WORTHINGTON CITY·NCES 390451304339
Worthington Park Elementary School
500 Park Rd, Westerville, OH 43081 · (614) 450-5500 · Franklin County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL378 STUDENTS
B
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 62% of Ohio public elementary schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- A-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
15.4:1
25 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.7:1 · STATE 17.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
43%
164 students
DISTRICT 30% · STATE 43%
Community
0
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 | 65 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 51 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 69 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 64 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 62 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 67 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (65) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (67).
Student demographics
69%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
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Ohio's State Tests 2024-25 . % Proficient or AboveEnglish Language Arts
69.1%
OH avg 59.8% . +8.0pp since 2021
Math
64.7%
OH avg 56.1% . +9.1pp since 2021
What this means: On the Ohio's State Tests, Ohio's statewide test, about 69 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 65 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Ohio schools, those numbers are about 60 and 56. Reading and writing scores are up about 8 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 9 points.
Ohio's State Tests results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 69.1% | 64.7% |
| 2023-24 | 77.7% | 65.8% |
| 2022-23 | 76.7% | 70.8% |
| 2021-22 | 61.1% | 55.5% |
% 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
71.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
72.4%
based on OH schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-0.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 72% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 72% 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 Park Elementary School
Worthington Park Elementary School's state test result (71.8% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Worthington Park Elementary School this school | 378 | 43.4% | 71.8% |
| Annehurst Elementary School Westerville | 409 | 42.1% | 69.4% |
| Royal Manor Elementary School Gahanna | 423 | 48.9% | 62.3% |
| Riverside Elementary School Dublin | 318 | 45.6% | 65.6% |
| Chapelfield Elementary School Gahanna | 409 | 46.2% | 72.3% |
| Norwich Elementary School Hilliard | 463 | 44.3% | 67.8% |
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 Park Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Ohio | In Franklin County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 71.8% | #422 of 673 | #42 of 81 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 64.7% | #805 of 1,569 ▼ 59 | #60 of 199 ▲ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 69.1% | #626 of 1,569 ▼ 210 | #48 of 199 ▼ 13 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +8.6pp | #325 of 1,514 | #57 of 194 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 378 | #926 of 1,808 | #113 of 225 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.4:1 | #338 of 1,582 | #20 of 192 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 68.6% | #140 of 1,590 | #40 of 193 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 43.4% | #364 of 767 | #38 of 85 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -14.3% | #445 of 992 | #78 of 135 |
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
378
-98 (-21%) vs 2020
-48% since 1990-91, when it was 723
Student : Teacher
15.4:1
was 18.3:1
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 | 378 | 24.5 | 15.4:1 | 43% (164) |
| 2023-24 | 376 | 24.5 | 15.3:1 | 38% (141) |
| 2022-23 | 389 | 25.5 | 15.3:1 | 29% (111) |
| 2020-21 | 476 | 26 | 18.3:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 441 | 27.2 | 16.2:1 | 28% (124) |
| 2015-16 | 442 | 28 | 15.8:1 | 25% (110) |
| 2010-11 | 459 | 27 | 17.0:1 | 22% (99) |
| 2000-01 | 463 | 28 | 16.5:1 | 3% (16) |
| 1990-91 | 723 | 36 | 20.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Worthington Park Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 14% (441 to 378); teachers down 10% (27.2 to 24.5).
About Worthington Park Elementary School
At 500 Park Rd in Westerville, Ohio, Worthington Park Elementary School operates as a medium-sized elementary school. Its 378 students are spread across kindergarten through 5.
Worthington City has a total of 19 schools and 10,874 students, Worthington Park Elementary School among them.
No single group makes up more than half of enrollment at Worthington Park Elementary School. The largest is White students, at 49%. The remaining students are 20% Black, 12% Hispanic, 11% multiracial, and 7% Asian. Census figures show Franklin County is about 59% White. Pick two students at random and there is a 69% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
A ratio of 15.4:1 comes from the school's 24.5 full-time-equivalent teachers. The school has fewer students per teacher than the 17.9:1 average for elementary schools in Ohio. The lunch program counts 43% of students at Worthington Park Elementary School as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. That tracks the 41% average for public schools in Franklin County.
The allk12 Grade for Worthington Park Elementary School is B. Compared with Ohio public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 62% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
Worthington Park Elementary School's average proficiency rate on state tests of 71.8% is within a point of the 72.4% the model predicts from its lunch-eligibility share.
Franklin County census figures show that the median household income is $75,176, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 42% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 11%. Franklin County is home to 402 public schools and about 195,359 public school students.
Slate Hill Elementary School is the closest public school, about 0.9 miles away in a straight line. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Worthington Park Elementary School. Among the 5 closest schools with test data, this one included, Worthington Park Elementary School ranks 3rd on average proficiency.
Its location is classified as City: Large by the National Center for Education Statistics.
Federal data show a 21% enrollment decrease, from 476 in 2020-21 to 378 in 2024-25. From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio fell from 18.3:1 to 15.4:1.
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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 Westerville
- Westerville-North High SchoolHigh · 1,587 students
- Westerville-South High SchoolHigh · 1,509 students
- Westerville Central High SchoolHigh · 1,485 students
- Cornerstone Academy Community SchoolCombined · 1,192 students
- Genoa Middle SchoolMiddle · 702 students
- Walnut Springs Middle SchoolMiddle · 613 students
Nearby schools
- Slate Hill Elementary School0.9 mi · 479
- Annehurst Elementary School1.5 mi · 409
- Olentangy Meadows Elementary School1.6 mi · 574
- Ohio Connections Academy Inc1.8 mi · 5,191
- Northgate Intermediate2.2 mi · 273
- Unity Academy2.2 mi · 96
Frequently asked questions
About Worthington Park Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Worthington Park Elementary School?
Worthington Park Elementary School enrolls approximately 378 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Worthington Park Elementary School serve?
Worthington Park Elementary School serves grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Worthington Park Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Worthington Park Elementary School is approximately 15.4:1 (25 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Worthington Park Elementary School?
Worthington Park Elementary School reports a student body of 49% White, 12% Hispanic, 20% Black, 7% Asian, 11% Two or more.
What district is Worthington Park Elementary School in?
Worthington Park Elementary School is part of Worthington City.
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