Carlisle Junior High School

Carlisle Junior High School is one of the cozy intermediate schools in Carlisle, Ohio, operated by Carlisle Local, with 242 students on its rolls from grades 7 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 482 students per school, that is 50% leaner than typical.

Carlisle Junior High School is one of 4 schools operated by Carlisle Local, a district that teaches 1,546 students overall.

Demographically, Carlisle Junior High School logs that 92% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school logs 4% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. That is noticeably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 83%.

In terms of school funding signals, Carlisle Junior High School reports 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.0:1, putting Carlisle Junior High School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 37% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Warren County runs at roughly 24%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Carlisle Junior High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 74.9%, the actual is 68.8%, a residual of -6.1 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Warren County shows the typical household earns roughly $110,132 per year, roughly 46% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Across Warren County's 45 public schools (combined enrollment of about 39,898 students), Carlisle Junior High School is one campus in the mix.

Carlisle Intermediate Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Carlisle Junior High School comes 2nd of 4 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 67.5%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 38%: 392 students in 2018 compared to 242 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 20.9:1 in 2018 to 12.7:1 in 2025.

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