Summary:
ZIP code 43231 is home to five schools serving roughly 2,821 students across grades K–12: three elementary schools, one middle school, one K–12 alternative school, and no traditional high school. Three of them — Minerva Park Middle School, Minerva France Elementary School, and Hawthorne Elementary School — belong to the Westerville City district, which ranks 270 of 773 Ohio districts at the 65th percentile with 3 stars. Horizon Science Academy Elementary School operates in its own district context, ranked 606 of 773 at the 22nd percentile with 1 star, while Oakstone Community School has no district rank listed.
Minerva Park Middle School is the academic leader here, with 100% proficiency in American History and 90.3% in Algebra I, well above state averages, and a rank that climbed from the 45th to the 56th percentile. Hawthorne Elementary School posts strong 3rd grade math at 74.7%, above both district and state, despite reporting the highest free/reduced-lunch rate among schools with data at 71.38%; its chronic absenteeism of 15.0% is below the district's 18.2%. Minerva France Elementary School has the lowest chronic absenteeism in the ZIP at 9.0%, half the district rate, with solid 5th grade ELA at 74.5% — but its rank fell from the 59th to the 39th percentile and 3rd grade math sits at 45.7%.
Horizon Science Academy Elementary School is the largest school at 774 students, yet no 2025–26 test area rose above state proficiency and it has the highest chronic absenteeism at 21.9%. Oakstone Community School, a small K–12 alternative with 197 students and a 5.7 student-teacher ratio, reports a 68.4% graduation rate and mixed results — 4th grade math at 80% but 8th grade science at 33.3% — so its figures should be read cautiously given small cohort sizes. With no traditional high school in the ZIP, families may need to look outside the area for that option.
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