Crestview Middle School

Crestview Middle School, a small middle school in Ashland, Ohio, operated by Crestview Local, teaches 271 students, covering grades 5 through 8. That puts it 44% below the typical public school in Ohio, which averages around 482 students.

Within Crestview Local, which oversees 10 schools and 2,951 students, Crestview Middle School is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Crestview Middle School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (95%). The remainder reads as 2% multiracial. By comparison, Richland County as a whole is about 85% White, so the school skews considerably more White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.0:1 average. Roughly 62% of students at Crestview Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Richland County (around 54%), the school's rate is north of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Crestview Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 65.3%, the actual is 67.5%, a residual of +2.2 points.

In the broader community, census data for Richland County shows the typical household earns roughly $59,509 per year, 18% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Crestview Middle School is one of 49 public schools in Richland County (combined enrollment of about 18,772 students).

Crestview Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Crestview Middle School. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Crestview Middle School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 71.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Crestview Middle School has fell 38%, going from 439 students in 2018 to 271 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 15.3:1 in 2018 to 13.6:1 in 2025.

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