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Anthony Wayne Junior High School
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Ohio's State Tests 2024-25 . % Proficient or AboveWhat this means: On the Ohio's State Tests, Ohio's statewide test, about 84 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 90 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 7 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 9 points.
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Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 89% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 84% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Anthony Wayne Junior High School
Located at 6035 Finzel Rd, in Whitehouse, Ohio, Anthony Wayne Junior High School is a moderately sized intermediate school that caters to 666 students (grades 7 through 8), operated by Anthony Wayne Local. That puts it 38% above the typical public school in Ohio, which averages around 482 students.
Anthony Wayne Local runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 4,135 students. Anthony Wayne Junior High School is one of those campuses.
For racial and ethnic makeup, Anthony Wayne Junior High School logs that 91% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 3% Hispanic, 3% Black. That is considerably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 68%.
Looking at school resources, On paper, Anthony Wayne Junior High School has 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 20.2:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.0:1 average. About 12% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Lucas County runs at roughly 44%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.
After controlling for student poverty, Anthony Wayne Junior High School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 84.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 88.6%.
In the area at large, census data for Lucas County shows the typical household earns roughly $62,224 per year, about 29% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Lucas County's 143 public schools (combined enrollment of about 73,839 students), Anthony Wayne Junior High School is one campus in the mix.
Fallen Timbers Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Anthony Wayne Junior High School comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 85.8%.
The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.
Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 5%: 702 students in 2018 compared to 666 in 2025.
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