22 public K-12 schools in Hilliard from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.
National city placement
According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Hilliard has more public-school enrollment than 89% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Hilliard's average Resource Investment Index ranks above most listed cities even though its student-teacher ratio is on the more crowded side of the national city distribution. That is a useful mismatch, not a contradiction: counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance can lift the composite while classroom staffing remains comparatively tight. Families should inspect the component scores on each school profile instead of reading the city index as a shorthand for small classes.
13 of Hilliard's 22 listed schools are elementary campuses. That composition means citywide enrollment and staffing averages are influenced more by early-grade operating patterns than by the city's 4 middle and 4 high-school records. Families comparing later grades should rely on those individual rows rather than the all-school mean.
Hilliard's average Resource Investment Index sits at the 70th percentile, while its teacher-staffing measure sits at the 34th percentile. The 36-point percentile gap is a reminder that the index is not a class-size score: counselors, gifted-program reporting, and attendance also affect it. Compare those components directly when two schools have similar index totals; the same headline score can arise from a different mix of reported resources.
Hilliard school enrollment ranges from 92 students (lowest) to 1,847 students (highest), a spread of 1,755 students. That spread is wider than typical and predicts noticeable gaps in service quality between the highest and lowest areas. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Hilliard's listed schools share one district boundary, budget authority, and reporting chain. That makes citywide and districtwide governance easier to compare, but it does not make individual campuses uniform: grade configuration, staffing, programs, and student need can still vary materially within the same school district.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Variation between sub-units within Hilliard is typically wider than the Hilliard-aggregate figure suggests.
| # | School | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Hilliard Online Academy | 74 |
| 2. | Scioto Darby Elementary School | 61 |
| 3. | Hilliard Tharp Sixth Grade Elementary School | 56 |
| 4. | Beacon Elementary School | 55 |
| 5. | Avery Elementary School | 55 |
| 6. | Hoffman Trails Elementary School | 47 |
| 7. | Britton Elementary School | 47 |
| 8. | Alton Darby Elementary School | 46 |
| 9. | Norwich Elementary School | 45 |
| 10. | Hilliard Heritage Middle School | 44 |
| 11. | Darby Creek Elementary School | 44 |
| 12. | Brown Elementary School | 44 |
| 13. | Hilliard Station Sixth Grade Elementary School | 43 |
| 14. | Ridgewood Elementary School | 42 |
| 15. | Hilliard Crossing Elementary School | 42 |
| 16. | Hilliard Memorial Middle School | 40 |
| 17. | Hilliard Davidson High School | 39 |
| 18. | Hilliard Darby High School | 38 |
| 19. | Hilliard Weaver Middle School | 38 |
| 20. | J W Reason Elementary School | 38 |
| 21. | Hilliard Bradley High School | 34 |
| 22. | Hilliard City School District Preschool | 15 |
Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.
Hilliard Online Academy has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Hilliard schools in this federal-data comparison at 74/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.
Hilliard has 22 public schools with a total enrollment of 15,240 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 16.9:1.
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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.
