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Bolich Middle School
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Test scores
Ohio's State Tests 2024-25 . % Proficient or AboveWhat this means: On the Ohio's State Tests, Ohio's statewide test, about 59 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 59 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 9 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 10 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 57% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 65% 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 Bolich Middle School
Bolich Middle School is a middle school of mid-sized scale in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, run under Cuyahoga Falls City School District, hosting 508 students in grades 6 through 8.
Cuyahoga Falls City School District comprises 9 schools with combined enrollment of 3,848 students; Bolich Middle School is among them.
Looking at the student body, Bolich Middle School records that the largest single group is White, at 63% of enrollment. The remainder looks like 12% Black, 10% Asian, 10% multiracial, 6% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 74% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.
In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Bolich Middle School has 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.0:1 average. An estimated 64% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Summit County's rate of about 34%.
With demographic context factored in, Bolich Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 64.7%, the actual is 57.4%, a residual of -7.3 points.
In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Summit County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $71,622 per year, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Summit County's 149 public schools (combined enrollment of about 69,214 students), Bolich Middle School is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: Cuyahoga Falls High School, around 0.8 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Bolich Middle School comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 64.6%.
Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.
Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 15%: 598 students in 2018 compared to 508 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 79% to 63% across the same window.
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