Baldwin Road Junior High School

Baldwin Road Junior High School, a large middle-grades school in Reynoldsburg, Ohio, part of Reynoldsburg City, instructs 781 students, covering grades 6 through 8. That puts it 62% above the typical public school in Ohio, which averages around 482 students.

Reynoldsburg City runs 10 schools in total, collectively educating 7,130 students. Baldwin Road Junior High School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Baldwin Road Junior High School lists that 44% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder comes out to 20% White, 14% Asian, 13% Hispanic, 10% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 23% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school reports having 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.8:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.0:1 average. An estimated 71% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Franklin County (around 41%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Baldwin Road Junior High School is in the bottom 10% of Ohio public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 61.9%; Baldwin Road Junior High School posts 43.5%, -18.4 points below that line.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Franklin County indicate median household earnings sit near $75,176, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Franklin County runs 402 public schools (combined enrollment of about 195,359 students), of which Baldwin Road Junior High School is one.

Reynoldsburg High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 4 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Baldwin Road Junior High School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 50.3%.

Baldwin Road Junior High School operates from an outer-ring location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 23%: 637 students in 2018 compared to 781 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 47% to 20% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 27.5:1 in 2018 to 17.8:1 today.

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