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How has Copley-Fairlawn Middle School changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
850
Middle
DISTRICT 545 · STATE 482
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·COPLEY-FAIRLAWN CITY·NCES 390499803783
Copley-Fairlawn Middle School
1531 S Cleveland Massillon Rd, Copley, OH 44321 · (330) 664-4875 · Summit County
GRADES 05–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL850 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 80% of Ohio public middle schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- C-Three-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
14.9:1
57 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.7:1 · STATE 17.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
26%
223 students
DISTRICT 25% · 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 | 201 | 24% |
| Grade 6 | 236 | 28% |
| Grade 7 | 191 | 22% |
| Grade 8 | 222 | 26% |
Student demographics
53%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 50% · 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
Copley-Fairlawn Middle School→Copley High School
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Copley-Fairlawn City. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
Ohio's State Tests 2024-25 . % Proficient or AboveEnglish Language Arts
77.9%
OH avg 59.8% . -1.9pp since 2021
Math
82.8%
OH avg 56.1% . +1.3pp since 2021
What this means: On the Ohio's State Tests, Ohio's statewide test, about 78 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 83 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 2 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 1 points.
Ohio's State Tests results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 77.9% | 82.8% |
| 2023-24 | 80.6% | 84.5% |
| 2022-23 | 85.2% | 85.1% |
| 2021-22 | 79.8% | 81.5% |
% 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
81.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
78.9%
based on OH schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+2.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 81% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 79% 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 Copley-Fairlawn Middle School
Copley-Fairlawn Middle School's state test result (81.4% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Copley-Fairlawn Middle School this school | 850 | 26.2% | 81.4% |
| Gahanna East Middle School Gahanna | 660 | 20.6% | 81.0% |
| Liberty Junior School Liberty Township | 681 | 22.6% | 81.6% |
| Sylvania Timberstone Junior High School Sylvania | 607 | 31.5% | 72.5% |
| Mayfield Middle School Cleveland | 896 | 33.8% | 74.0% |
| Morton Middle School Vandalia | 699 | 36.8% | 61.9% |
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 Copley-Fairlawn Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Ohio | In Summit County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 81.4% | #72 of 316 | #5 of 17 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 82.8% | #94 of 637 ▼ 19 | #5 of 29 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 77.9% | #125 of 637 ▼ 45 | #11 of 29 ▼ 6 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -0.3pp | #174 of 629 | #8 of 29 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 850 | #59 of 654 | #4 of 30 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.9:1 | #170 of 577 | #15 of 27 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 52.8% | #147 of 579 | #12 of 27 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 26.2% | #237 of 319 | #12 of 17 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -1.8% | #384 of 410 | #23 of 23 |
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
850
+71 (+9%) vs 2020
+164% since 1990-91, when it was 322
Student : Teacher
14.9:1
was 15.0:1
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 | 850 | 57 | 14.9:1 | 26% (223) |
| 2023-24 | 822 | 48.3 | 17.0:1 | 25% (206) |
| 2022-23 | 756 | 49.9 | 15.2:1 | 16% (121) |
| 2020-21 | 779 | 52 | 15.0:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 866 | 51.1 | 17.0:1 | 20% (171) |
| 2015-16 | 906 | 56 | 16.2:1 | 19% (174) |
| 2010-11 | 1,080 | 63 | 17.1:1 | 20% (215) |
| 2000-01 | 946 | 58 | 16.3:1 | 8% (79) |
| 1990-91 | 322 | 22 | 14.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Copley-Fairlawn Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 2% (866 to 850); teachers up 12% (51.1 to 57).
About Copley-Fairlawn Middle School
Among the schools in Copley, Ohio, is Copley-Fairlawn Middle School, a large middle school. The school's 850 students are in grades 5 through 8. Statewide, middle schools in Ohio average about 482 students each.
The Copley-Fairlawn City system has 5 schools and 2,726 students.
A majority of students at Copley-Fairlawn Middle School, 66%, are White. The next largest groups are 16% Black, 8% multiracial, 5% Hispanic, and 4% Asian. The school's White share is 8 points below the 74% share among Summit County residents. By the diversity index, Copley-Fairlawn Middle School comes in at 53%.
Federal records show a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.9:1 at Copley-Fairlawn Middle School, with 57 full-time-equivalent teachers. The 17.0:1 average for middle schools in Ohio is higher than this school's figure. Free and reduced-price lunch eligibility, a common measure of family income, is 26%. Across public schools in Summit County, the average is 34%.
The allk12 Grade for Copley-Fairlawn Middle School is A-. Compared with Ohio public middle schools, the school scored higher than 80% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, Copley-Fairlawn Middle School falls in the middle 80% of Ohio schools: 81.4% actual against 78.9% predicted.
Copley-Fairlawn Middle School is located in Summit County, where median household income is about $71,622, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 9% of people live in poverty. Federal data list 149 public schools in Summit County, with a combined enrollment of about 69,214.
Nearest public school: Arrowhead Primary Elementary School, about 0.5 miles away. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. Compared with its nearest neighbors, Copley-Fairlawn Middle School ranks 3rd of 5 on average proficiency.
The school's locale code, Suburb: Large, means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, Copley-Fairlawn Middle School went from 779 students to 850.
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Summit County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
537,864
Census ACS
Median income
$71,622
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
36%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
149
69,214 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Copley-Fairlawn City
- Copley High SchoolHigh · 895 students
- Arrowhead Primary Elementary SchoolElementary · 372 students
- Fort Island Primary Elementary SchoolElementary · 358 students
- Herberich Primary Elementary SchoolElementary · 251 students
Other schools in Copley
- Copley High SchoolHigh · 895 students
- Arrowhead Primary Elementary SchoolElementary · 372 students
- Northeast Ohio Classical AcademyElementary · 100 students
Nearby schools
- Arrowhead Primary Elementary School0.5 mi · 372
- Copley High School1.2 mi · 895
- Fort Island Primary Elementary School1.9 mi · 358
- Northeast Ohio Classical Academy2.6 mi · 100
- Norton Elementary School3.4 mi · 564
- Herberich Primary Elementary School3.4 mi · 251
Frequently asked questions
About Copley-Fairlawn Middle SchoolHow many students attend Copley-Fairlawn Middle School?
Copley-Fairlawn Middle School enrolls approximately 850 students in grades 05-08.
What age range does Copley-Fairlawn Middle School serve?
Copley-Fairlawn Middle School serves students from grade 05 through grade 08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Copley-Fairlawn Middle School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Copley-Fairlawn Middle School is approximately 14.9:1 (57 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Copley-Fairlawn Middle School?
Student demographics at Copley-Fairlawn Middle School are roughly 66% White, 5% Hispanic, 16% Black, 4% Asian, 8% Two or more.
What district is Copley-Fairlawn Middle School in?
Copley-Fairlawn Middle School is part of Copley-Fairlawn City.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.