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Bloom-Carroll Middle 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 74 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 72 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 10 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 4 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 72% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 80% 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 Bloom-Carroll Middle School
Bloom-Carroll Middle School operates as a reasonably sized intermediate school in Carroll, Ohio, run under Bloom-Carroll Local. Current enrollment sits at 573 students spanning grades 6 through 8.
Bloom-Carroll Local runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 2,294 students. Bloom-Carroll Middle School is one of those campuses.
For racial and ethnic makeup, Bloom-Carroll Middle School records that 88% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder reads as 5% Black, 4% multiracial, 2% Hispanic.
Looking at the economic backdrop, The school reports having 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 20.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.0:1, putting Bloom-Carroll Middle School higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 24% of students at Bloom-Carroll Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Fairfield County (around 41%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, Bloom-Carroll Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 79.8%; this one delivers 72.5%.
Across the wider county, Fairfield County reports that median household earnings sit near $90,966, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Fairfield County runs 47 public schools (combined enrollment of about 26,447 students), of which Bloom-Carroll Middle School is one.
Bloom-Carroll High 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, Bloom-Carroll Middle School comes 3rd of 4 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 74.5%.
The school occupies a low-density site.
Trend over the last 7 years. Bloom-Carroll Middle School's enrollment has declined 12% since 2018, when it stood at 652 (now 573). Over the same period, the White share contracted from 95% to 88%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 24.2:1 in 2018 to 20.0:1 today.
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- Bloom-Carroll High SchoolHigh · 697 students
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- Bloom Carroll Primary School0.5 mi · 479
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