westerville is served by the westerville city school district. the district operates three high schools: westerville south high school, an international baccalaureate school, which opened in 1960 as westerville high school; westerville north high school (opened 1975); and westerville central high school (opened 2003). in addition, westerville has four middle and sixteen elementary schools. the middle schools are blendon, genoa, heritage, and walnut springs. the elementary schools are emerson (a magnet school that opened in 1896 as the vine street school), central college (magnet), hanby (magnet), longfellow (magnet), alcott, annehurst, cherrington, fouse, hawthorne, huber ridge, mark twain, mcvay, pointview, robert frost, whittier, and wilder.