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Parents: what's one thing you'd want the Central Intermediate School administration to hear?
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Enrollment
606
Middle
DISTRICT 606 · STATE 482
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WADSWORTH CITY·NCES 391002903600
Central Intermediate School
151 Main St, Wadsworth, OH 44281 · (330) 335-1480 · Medina County
GRADES 05–06MIDDLE21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL606 STUDENTS
B+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 70% of Ohio public middle schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- DThree-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
20.8:1
29 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 18.3:1 · STATE 17.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
32%
195 students
DISTRICT 34% · 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 5 | 323 | 53% |
| Grade 6 | 283 | 47% |
Student demographics
16%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 19% · 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
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Wadsworth City. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
Ohio's State Tests 2024-25 . % Proficient or AboveEnglish Language Arts
78.8%
OH avg 59.8% . -2.7pp since 2021
Math
73.5%
OH avg 56.1% . -3.3pp since 2021
What this means: On the Ohio's State Tests, Ohio's statewide test, about 79 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 74 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Ohio schools, those numbers are about 60 and 56. Reading and writing scores are down about 3 points since 2021, while math scores are down about 3 points.
Ohio's State Tests results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 78.8% | 73.5% |
| 2023-24 | 79.7% | 76.2% |
| 2022-23 | 77.7% | 72.5% |
| 2021-22 | 81.4% | 76.8% |
% 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
77.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
76.7%
based on OH schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+1.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 78% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 77% 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 Central Intermediate School
Central Intermediate School's state test result (77.9% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Central Intermediate School this school | 606 | 32.2% | 77.9% |
| Wadsworth Middle School Wadsworth | 606 | 30.9% | 82.0% |
| Taylor Middle School Cleves | 599 | 33.4% | 72.7% |
| Eastern Elementary School Lexington | 504 | 33.5% | 81.9% |
| Ross Middle School Hamilton | 628 | 29.8% | 75.8% |
| Licking Valley Middle School Newark | 523 | 36.3% | 59.9% |
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 Central Intermediate School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Ohio | In Medina County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 77.9% | #104 of 316 | #4 of 8 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 73.5% | #230 of 637 ▼ 48 | #9 of 9 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 78.8% | #114 of 637 ▼ 28 | #4 of 9 ▼ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -3.0pp | #73 of 629 | #1 of 9 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 606 | #186 of 654 | #6 of 9 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 20.8:1 | #518 of 577 | #7 of 9 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 15.9% | #451 of 579 | #7 of 9 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 32.2% | #204 of 319 | #2 of 8 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -14.3% | #158 of 410 | #3 of 6 |
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
606
-61 (-9%) vs 2020
+197% since 2000-01, when it was 204
Student : Teacher
20.8:1
was 19.6:1
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 | 606 | 29.1 | 20.8:1 | 32% (195) |
| 2023-24 | 584 | 29.2 | 20.0:1 | 31% (181) |
| 2022-23 | 598 | 34.1 | 17.5:1 | 22% (129) |
| 2020-21 | 667 | 34 | 19.6:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 707 | 36.5 | 19.4:1 | 24% (169) |
| 2015-16 | 672 | 32 | 21.0:1 | 22% (150) |
| 2010-11 | 720 | 40 | 18.0:1 | 23% (164) |
| 2000-01 | 204 | 10 | 20.4:1 | 12% (25) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Central Intermediate School.
Since 2017-18: students down 14% (707 to 606); teachers down 20% (36.5 to 29.1).
About Central Intermediate School
The public middle school Central Intermediate School is located in Wadsworth, Ohio. Its enrollment is 606 students, spread over grades 5 through 6. On average, middle schools in Ohio enroll around 482, and this school is 26% larger than that mark.
Wadsworth City (10 schools, 4,275 students) runs Central Intermediate School.
Central Intermediate School is 92% White by enrollment. The next largest groups are 4% Hispanic and 3% multiracial. That is in line with Medina County, where about 92% of residents are White. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Central Intermediate School scores 16%.
Teacher count: 29.1 full-time equivalents. Student-to-teacher ratio: 20.8:1. The average for middle schools in Ohio, 17.0:1, is lower. Roughly 32% of students come from households that qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
Central Intermediate School earns a B+ on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 70% of Ohio public middle schools.
On the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure, Central Intermediate School is 1.3 points above the average proficiency rate across its state test results predicted for its free or reduced-price lunch share: 77.9% actual, 76.7% predicted. That is outside both the top and bottom 10% in Ohio.
In Medina County, the median household earns about $94,968 a year, about 36% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 4% of residents are in poverty. Medina County has 49 public schools with about 25,243 students, including Central Intermediate School.
Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, Lincoln Elementary School, is about 0.5 miles. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Of the 7 nearby schools with scores, including this one, Central Intermediate School is 6th on average proficiency.
Central Intermediate School falls in the Suburb: Large locale category, used for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The school's student count fell 9% between the 2020-21 and 2024-25 school years. Students per teacher increased from 19.6 in 2020-21 to 20.8 in 2024-25.
Central Intermediate School has a community page on allk12 for topics such as pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. You can also rate the school on this page.
Medina County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
183,660
Census ACS
Median income
$94,968
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
36%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
49
25,243 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Wadsworth City
- Wadsworth High SchoolHigh · 1,540 students
- Wadsworth Middle SchoolMiddle · 606 students
- Overlook Elementary SchoolElementary · 390 students
- Isham Memorial Elementary SchoolElementary · 342 students
- Valley View Elementary SchoolElementary · 319 students
- Franklin Elementary SchoolElementary · 245 students
Other schools in Wadsworth
- Wadsworth High SchoolHigh · 1,540 students
- Sharon Elementary SchoolElementary · 627 students
- Wadsworth Middle SchoolMiddle · 606 students
- Overlook Elementary SchoolElementary · 390 students
- Isham Memorial Elementary SchoolElementary · 342 students
- Valley View Elementary SchoolElementary · 319 students
Other Central Intermediate schools
6 other US public schools in 4 states are named Central Intermediate. Central Intermediate School is the 3rd largest of the 7.
- Central Intermediate SchoolCentral, LA · 1,039 students
- Central Intermediate SchoolWashington, IL · 649 students
- Central Intermediate SchoolBixby, OK · 451 students
- Central Intermediate SchoolRoxana, IL · 365 students
- Central Intermediate SchoolOttawa, IL · 339 students
Nearby schools
- Lincoln Elementary School0.5 mi · 195
- Isham Memorial Elementary School0.6 mi · 342
- Wadsworth City School District Online Academy0.8 mi · 4
- Grizzly Academy0.8 mi · 28
- Franklin Elementary School0.8 mi · 245
- Wadsworth High School0.9 mi · 1,540
Frequently asked questions
About Central Intermediate SchoolHow large is Central Intermediate School?
Central Intermediate School enrolls approximately 606 students in grades 05-06.
What age range does Central Intermediate School serve?
Central Intermediate School serves students from grade 05 through grade 06.
How many students per teacher at Central Intermediate School?
Approximately 20.8:1 students per teacher at Central Intermediate School.
What is the student diversity at Central Intermediate School?
Student demographics at Central Intermediate School are roughly 92% White, 4% Hispanic, 1% Black, 1% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Who oversees Central Intermediate School?
Central Intermediate School is overseen by Wadsworth City in Medina County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.