Buckeye Middle School

Buckeye Middle School, a tight-knit intermediate school in Columbus, Ohio, run under Columbus City Schools District, instructs 326 students, covering grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 32% leaner than the state mean of about 482.

Columbus City Schools District runs 115 schools in total, collectively educating 46,249 students. Buckeye Middle School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Buckeye Middle School records that the most-represented group is Black (41%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school records 35% White, 13% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 2% Asian. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 23%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.0:1 average.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Franklin County indicate median household earnings sit near $75,176, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Franklin County's 402 public schools (combined enrollment of about 195,359 students), Buckeye Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Parsons Elementary School, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Buckeye Middle School.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Buckeye Middle School's enrollment has edged down 23% since 2018, when it stood at 421 (now 326). White enrollment moved from 46% to 35% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 15.0:1 in 2018 to 13.6:1 in 2025.

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