Creekside Middle School

Creekside Middle School operates as a heavily attended 6-8 campus in Fairfield, Ohio, part of Fairfield City. Current enrollment sits at 1,111 students spanning grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 130% larger than the state mean of about 482.

Within Fairfield City, which oversees 10 schools and 9,591 students, Creekside Middle School is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Creekside Middle School lists that the largest single group is White at 41%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school logs 23% Black, 21% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 8% Asian. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 76%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 56 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.7:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.0:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 65% of students at Creekside Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Butler County runs at roughly 42%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Creekside Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 64.1%, the actual is 59.5%, a residual of -4.6 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Butler County put median household income runs about $81,590, 33% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Creekside Middle School is one of 90 public schools in Butler County (combined enrollment of about 59,107 students).

The closest other public school is Fairfield Central Elementary School, roughly 0.7 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Creekside Middle School ranks 7th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 66.9%.

Creekside Middle School operates from a residential location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Creekside Middle School has contracted 8%, going from 1,207 students in 2018 to 1,111 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 63% to 41% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 17.8:1 in 2018 to 19.7:1 today.

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