Buckeye Valley Local Middle School

Set in Delaware, Ohio, Buckeye Valley Local Middle School is a moderately sized middle school, run under Buckeye Valley Local. It hosts 612 students across grades 5 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 27% bigger than the state mean of about 482.

Buckeye Valley Local comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 2,298 students; Buckeye Valley Local Middle School is among them.

Looking at the student body, Buckeye Valley Local Middle School reports that 91% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest is composed of 4% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Delaware County as a whole is about 80% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Buckeye Valley Local Middle School has 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.2:1. The state averages around 17.0:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 24% of students at Buckeye Valley Local Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Buckeye Valley Local Middle School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 79.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 72.8%.

Zooming out to the county, Delaware County reports that median household earnings sit near $133,540, 59% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 3% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Delaware County runs 59 public schools (combined enrollment of about 44,100 students), of which Buckeye Valley Local Middle School is one.

Buckeye Valley Local High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Buckeye Valley Local Middle School at 3rd of 9; the average score across the group is 70.2%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Buckeye Valley Local Middle School has contracted 9%, going from 674 students in 2018 to 612 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 20.4:1 in 2018 to 18.2:1 in 2025.

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