Summary:
ZIP code 43220 contains 11 schools serving grades K through 12 — six elementary, one middle, three high, and one alternative school — with 11,616 students enrolled in total. It is not a single-district community: the area includes three Upper Arlington City schools, three Columbus City Schools District schools, and several standalone online, alternative, and charter programs. Enrollment is heavily concentrated: Alternative Education Academy alone enrolls 6,276 students (54.0% of the ZIP), and the three largest nontraditional schools together account for 68.6% of all students.
The academic leaders are the Upper Arlington schools. Windermere Elementary School ranks 25th out of 1,560 schools (98th percentile, 5 stars), with chronic absenteeism of 2.7% and 4th grade math proficiency at 98.8%. Greensview Elementary School ranks 51st (97th percentile, 5 stars) with 2.9% absenteeism, and Hastings Middle School ranks 73rd out of 1,046 (93rd percentile, 5 stars) with 7.2% absenteeism. Within Columbus City Schools, Ecole Kenwood French Immersion is a bright spot, ranking 322nd out of 1,560 (79th percentile) after improving from the 53rd percentile in 2023–24, with 8.3% absenteeism versus the district's 53.8%. Centennial High School graduates 90.3% of students, above its district's 81.5%, but stays below state proficiency in every listed subject.
At the other end, Gateway Online Academy of Ohio ranks in the 5th percentile with 0 stars, a 36.1% graduation rate, 53.6% absenteeism, and proficiency as low as 5.1% in Geometry. Pathfinder Career Academy of Ohio ranks in the 2nd percentile, and Alternative Education Academy graduates 42.4% of its students. Absenteeism splits the area sharply: under 10% at the Upper Arlington schools and Ecole Kenwood, above 50% at Gateway and Centennial. Spending and staffing data are mixed and largely historical (2018–19), and many values are unreported, so blanks should not be read as zeros.
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