Blendon Middle School

Blendon Middle School is a 6-8 campus of average-sized scale in Westerville, Ohio, run under Westerville City, instructing 609 students in grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 26% above the state mean of about 482.

Blendon Middle School is one of 24 schools operated by Westerville City, a district that instructs 14,589 students overall.

On demographics, Blendon Middle School reports that the most-represented group is White (52%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest consists of 25% Black, 12% multiracial, 8% Hispanic, 3% Asian.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Blendon Middle School has 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.7:1. The state averages around 17.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 45% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Blendon Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 71.9%, the actual is 78.0%, a residual of +6.1 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Franklin County indicate the typical household earns roughly $75,176 per year, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Franklin County runs 402 public schools (combined enrollment of about 195,359 students), of which Blendon Middle School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Westerville-South High School, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Blendon Middle School comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 73.2%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Blendon Middle School's enrollment has fell 13% since 2018, when it stood at 701 (now 609). The White share of enrollment shrank from 62% to 52% over that span.

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