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What's the most underrated thing about Bowling Green Middle School that outsiders don't know?
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Enrollment
589
Middle
DISTRICT 423 · STATE 482
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BOWLING GREEN CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 390436300186
Bowling Green Middle School
1079 Fairview Ave, Bowling Green, OH 43402 · (419) 354-0200 · Wood County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE31-TOWNREGULAR SCHOOL589 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 56% of Ohio public middle schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- AThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Ohio public middle schools
Student : Teacher
14.7:1
40 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.8:1 · STATE 17.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
37%
219 students
DISTRICT 36% · STATE 43%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 189 | 32% |
| Grade 7 | 191 | 32% |
| Grade 8 | 209 | 35% |
Student demographics
41%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 41% · STATE 54% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Bowling Green Middle School→Bowling Green High School
Based on grade levels within Bowling Green City School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
Ohio's State Tests 2024-25 . % Proficient or AboveEnglish Language Arts
66.2%
OH avg 59.8% . +8.9pp since 2021
Math
77.5%
OH avg 56.1% . +12.5pp since 2021
What this means: On the Ohio's State Tests, Ohio's statewide test, about 66 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 77 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 13 points.
Ohio's State Tests results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 66.2% | 77.5% |
| 2023-24 | 60.8% | 75.2% |
| 2022-23 | 63.0% | 73.9% |
| 2021-22 | 57.3% | 65.0% |
% Proficient or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Ohio's State Tests. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
69.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
74.8%
based on OH schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-5.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 70% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 75% 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Bowling Green Middle School
Bowling Green Middle School's state test result (69.6% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bowling Green Middle School this school | 589 | 37.2% | 69.6% |
| Henry F Lamuth Middle School Painesville | 703 | 37.1% | 70.3% |
| Donnell Middle School Findlay | 522 | 42.7% | 64.4% |
| Amherst Junior High School Amherst | 859 | 34.9% | 71.4% |
| Jonathan Alder Junior High Plain City | 382 | 34.0% | 80.8% |
| Hilliard Heritage Middle School Hilliard | 791 | 32.5% | 67.1% |
Matched among Ohio middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Bowling Green Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Ohio | In Wood County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 69.6% | #194 of 316 | N/A |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 77.5% | #165 of 637 ▲ 31 | #4 of 8 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 66.2% | #304 of 637 ▲ 44 | #5 of 8 ▲ 2 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +10.7pp | #50 of 629 | #2 of 8 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 589 | #200 of 654 | #3 of 9 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.7:1 | #153 of 577 | #2 of 8 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 41.3% | #202 of 579 | #4 of 8 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 37.2% | #174 of 319 | N/A |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -17.7% | #97 of 410 | N/A |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
589
-99 (-14%) vs 2020
+4% since 1990-91, when it was 565
Student : Teacher
14.7:1
was 17.6:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 589 | 40 | 14.7:1 | 37% (219) |
| 2023-24 | 600 | 51 | 11.8:1 | 38% (230) |
| 2022-23 | 630 | 38 | 16.6:1 | 33% (205) |
| 2020-21 | 688 | 39 | 17.6:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 716 | 40.4 | 17.7:1 | 37% (263) |
| 2015-16 | 691 | 39 | 17.7:1 | 40% (275) |
| 2010-11 | 482 | 33 | 14.6:1 | 30% (147) |
| 2000-01 | 524 | 43 | 12.2:1 | 15% (77) |
| 1990-91 | 565 | 36 | 15.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Bowling Green Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 18% (716 to 589); teachers down 1% (40.4 to 40).
About Bowling Green Middle School
Families in Bowling Green, Ohio, are served by Bowling Green Middle School, a mid-sized middle-grades school. It offers grades 6 through 8 and has 589 students enrolled. It has 22% more students than the average for middle schools in Ohio (about 482).
The Bowling Green City School District system has 6 schools and 2,537 students.
Federal enrollment data show Bowling Green Middle School is 75% White. Next come 14% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 4% Black, and 3% Asian. The county population is about 87% White. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 41%.
Teacher count: 40 full-time equivalents. Student-to-teacher ratio: 14.7:1. The gap from the 17.0:1 average for middle schools in Ohio is 2.3 students per teacher. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch, often used to gauge student poverty, is 37%. The average for public schools in Wood County is similar, at 35%.
On the allk12 Grade, Bowling Green Middle School lands at B, ahead of 56% of Ohio public middle schools.
After adjusting for student poverty, Bowling Green Middle School lands between the top and bottom 10% of Ohio schools. Its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 69.6%; the prediction is 74.8%.
In Wood County, the median household earns about $74,216 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 37%, and about 7% of people live in poverty. Wood County has 38 public schools with about 19,968 students, including Bowling Green Middle School.
Bowling Green High School is less than a tenth of a mile from Bowling Green Middle School, the shortest distance to any other public school. The five-mile area around Bowling Green Middle School holds 5 other public schools. Nearby schools with test data average 72.7% proficiency; Bowling Green Middle School posts 69.6%.
Federal records code the school's setting as Town: Fringe.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment fell from 688 to 589, a 14% decrease. The student-to-teacher ratio went down from 17.6:1 to 14.7:1.
The allk12 page for Bowling Green Middle School lets the school community talk about pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
Wood County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
132,064
Census ACS
Median income
$74,216
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
37%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
38
19,968 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Bowling Green City School District
- Bowling Green High SchoolHigh · 799 students
- Conneaut Elementary SchoolElementary · 414 students
- Crim Elementary SchoolElementary · 344 students
- Kenwood Elementary SchoolElementary · 293 students
- Bowling Green PreschoolElementary · 98 students
Other schools in Bowling Green
- Bowling Green High SchoolHigh · 799 students
- Otsego High SchoolHigh · 474 students
- Conneaut Elementary SchoolElementary · 414 students
- Otsego Junior HighMiddle · 375 students
- Crim Elementary SchoolElementary · 344 students
- Kenwood Elementary SchoolElementary · 293 students
Other Bowling Green Middle schools
One other US public school is named Bowling Green Middle. Bowling Green Middle School is the largest of the 2.
- BOWLING GREEN MIDDLEBOWLING GREEN, MO · 284 students
Nearby schools
- Bowling Green High School0.1 mi · 799
- Conneaut Elementary School0.6 mi · 414
- Bowling Green Preschool1.0 mi · 98
- Kenwood Elementary School1.6 mi · 293
- Crim Elementary School1.6 mi · 344
- Otsego Junior High5.0 mi · 375
Frequently asked questions
About Bowling Green Middle SchoolHow large is Bowling Green Middle School?
Bowling Green Middle School enrolls approximately 589 students in grades 06-08.
Is Bowling Green Middle School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Bowling Green Middle School is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many teachers does Bowling Green Middle School have?
Bowling Green Middle School employs 40 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.7:1.
What is the student diversity at Bowling Green Middle School?
Student demographics at Bowling Green Middle School are roughly 75% White, 14% Hispanic, 4% Black, 3% Asian, 5% Two or more.
What district is Bowling Green Middle School in?
Bowling Green Middle School is part of Bowling Green City School District.
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