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Enrollment
666
Middle
DISTRICT 687 · STATE 482
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ANTHONY WAYNE LOCAL·NCES 390482000849
Anthony Wayne Junior High School
6035 Finzel Rd, Whitehouse, OH 43571 · (419) 877-5342 · Lucas County
GRADES 07–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL666 STUDENTS
A+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 98% of Ohio public middle schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- AThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Ohio public middle schools
Student : Teacher
20.2:1
33 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 19.6:1 · STATE 17.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
12%
83 students
DISTRICT 16% · STATE 43%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 7 | 318 | 48% |
| Grade 8 | 348 | 52% |
Student demographics
17%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 17% · STATE 54% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Anthony Wayne Junior High School→Anthony Wayne High School
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Anthony Wayne Local. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
Ohio's State Tests 2024-25 . % Proficient or AboveEnglish Language Arts
84.1%
OH avg 59.8% . +6.7pp since 2021
Math
90.2%
OH avg 56.1% . +8.6pp since 2021
What 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.
Ohio's State Tests results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 84.1% | 90.2% |
| 2023-24 | 81.7% | 91.4% |
| 2022-23 | 85.3% | 89.0% |
| 2021-22 | 77.4% | 81.6% |
% Proficient or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Ohio's State Tests. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
88.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
84.1%
based on OH schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+4.5pp
above demographic expectation
What 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Anthony Wayne Junior High School
Anthony Wayne Junior High School's state test result (88.6% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anthony Wayne Junior High School this school | 666 | 12.5% | 88.6% |
| Kenston Middle School Chagrin Falls | 772 | 11.5% | 87.0% |
| Fallen Timbers Middle School Whitehouse | 707 | 15.4% | 93.2% |
| Bay Middle School Bay Village | 738 | 11.4% | 90.1% |
| Granville Intermediate School Granville | 580 | 8.4% | 89.1% |
| Highland Middle School Medina | 824 | 9.6% | 86.8% |
Matched among Ohio middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Anthony Wayne Junior High School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Ohio | In Lucas County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 88.6% | #18 of 316 | #2 of 10 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 90.2% | #22 of 637 ▼ 6 | #2 of 11 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 84.1% | #56 of 637 ▲ 11 | #2 of 11 no change |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +7.7pp | #101 of 629 | #4 of 11 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 666 | #143 of 654 | #3 of 11 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 20.2:1 | #498 of 577 | #11 of 11 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 17.2% | #435 of 579 | #10 of 11 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 12.5% | #297 of 319 | #10 of 10 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -5.1% | #322 of 410 | #7 of 8 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
666
+7 (+1%) vs 2020
+22% since 2000-01, when it was 546
Student : Teacher
20.2:1
was 20.6:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 666 | 33 | 20.2:1 | 12% (83) |
| 2023-24 | 685 | 33 | 20.8:1 | 18% (121) |
| 2022-23 | 707 | 31 | 22.8:1 | 13% (90) |
| 2020-21 | 659 | 32 | 20.6:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 702 | 34 | 20.6:1 | 10% (73) |
| 2015-16 | 713 | 34 | 21.0:1 | 12% (88) |
| 2010-11 | 678 | 36 | 18.8:1 | 12% (81) |
| 2000-01 | 546 | 34 | 16.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Anthony Wayne Junior High School.
Since 2017-18: students down 5% (702 to 666); teachers down 3% (34 to 33).
About Anthony Wayne Junior High School
Federal records list Anthony Wayne Junior High School as a middle school in Whitehouse, Ohio. The school enrolls 666 students in grades 7 through 8. On average, middle schools in Ohio enroll around 482, and this school is 38% bigger than that mark.
Anthony Wayne Local is made up of 6 schools with 4,135 students in all.
Anthony Wayne Junior High School is 91% White by enrollment. Smaller groups are 3% Hispanic and 3% Black. For comparison, the population of Lucas County is roughly 68% White. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 17%.
The school has 33 full-time-equivalent teachers and a ratio of 20.2 students per teacher. Middle schools in Ohio have an average ratio of 17.0:1. The school reported 12% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. On average, public schools in Lucas County report 44%.
On the allk12 Grade, Anthony Wayne Junior High School lands at A+, ahead of 98% of Ohio public middle schools.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for Anthony Wayne Junior High School is +4.5 points: 88.6% actual, 84.1% predicted.
The county, Lucas County, is where the school is located. The median household earns about $62,224 a year, 29% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting Anthony Wayne Junior High School, Lucas County has 143 public schools.
Anthony Wayne Junior High School's nearest public school is Fallen Timbers Middle School (less than a tenth of a mile). In all, 5 other public schools sit within five miles of Anthony Wayne Junior High School. Among the 8 closest schools with test data, this one included, Anthony Wayne Junior High School ranks 5th on average proficiency.
The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as Suburb: Large, meaning it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
There was little change in enrollment from 2020-21 (659) to 2024-25 (666).
This page is set up for the Anthony Wayne Junior High School community to discuss homework, tutoring, and testing dates. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
Lucas County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
428,018
Census ACS
Median income
$62,224
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
29%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
13%
Below federal line
Schools in county
143
73,839 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Anthony Wayne Local
- Anthony Wayne High SchoolHigh · 1,360 students
- Fallen Timbers Middle SchoolMiddle · 707 students
- Whitehouse Primary SchoolElementary · 477 students
- Waterville Primary SchoolElementary · 468 students
- Monclova Elementary SchoolElementary · 457 students
Other schools in Whitehouse
- Anthony Wayne High SchoolHigh · 1,360 students
- Fallen Timbers Middle SchoolMiddle · 707 students
- Whitehouse Primary SchoolElementary · 477 students
Nearby schools
- Fallen Timbers Middle School0.1 mi · 707
- Anthony Wayne High School0.1 mi · 1,360
- Whitehouse Primary School1.5 mi · 477
- Waterville Primary School3.0 mi · 468
- Monclova Elementary School3.0 mi · 457
- Hull Prairie Intermediate School5.5 mi · 925
Frequently asked questions
About Anthony Wayne Junior High SchoolHow large is Anthony Wayne Junior High School?
Anthony Wayne Junior High School enrolls approximately 666 students in grades 07-08.
What grades does Anthony Wayne Junior High School serve?
Anthony Wayne Junior High School serves grades 07-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Anthony Wayne Junior High School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Anthony Wayne Junior High School is approximately 20.2:1 (33 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Anthony Wayne Junior High School?
At Anthony Wayne Junior High School, the student body is approximately 91% White, 3% Hispanic, 3% Black, 1% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Is Anthony Wayne Junior High School public or private?
Anthony Wayne Junior High School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Anthony Wayne Local.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.