Boardman Glenwood Junior High

Boardman Glenwood Junior High is a reasonably sized junior high in Youngstown, Ohio, operated by Boardman Local. The school educates 550 students in grades 7 through 8.

Across the 7 schools in Boardman Local (3,515 students total), Boardman Glenwood Junior High accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Boardman Glenwood Junior High logs that the largest single group is White, at 66% of enrollment. Other groups include 11% Hispanic, 10% Black, 10% multiracial, 3% Asian. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 75%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.5:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.0:1, putting Boardman Glenwood Junior High tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 55% of students at Boardman Glenwood Junior High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Mahoning County (around 45%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Boardman Glenwood Junior High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 68.1%, the actual is 75.6%, a residual of +7.5 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Mahoning County put the typical household earns roughly $56,942 per year, about 27% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 14%. In all, Mahoning County runs 77 public schools (combined enrollment of about 27,927 students), of which Boardman Glenwood Junior High is one.

Nearest neighbor: Spartan Online Academy, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Boardman Glenwood Junior High. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Boardman Glenwood Junior High ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 79.5%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Boardman Glenwood Junior High's enrollment has shrank 20% since 2018, when it stood at 685 (now 550). Over the same period, the White share declined from 74% to 66%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 13.5:1 today.

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