1
What's something Crossroads Middle School does better than most schools?
Community prompt from u/allk12. Replies below.
Enrollment
1,111
Middle
DISTRICT 1,111 · STATE 482
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FAIRFIELD CITY·NCES 390461001410
Crossroads Middle School
255 Donald Dr, Fairfield, OH 45014 · (513) 829-4504 · Butler County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,111 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
17.0:1
65 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 18.4:1 · STATE 17.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
54%
604 students
DISTRICT 60% · 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 6 | 374 | 34% |
| Grade 7 | 360 | 32% |
| Grade 8 | 377 | 34% |
Student demographics
73%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 73% · 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
Test scores
Ohio's State Tests 2024-25 . % Proficient or AboveEnglish Language Arts
62.3%
OH avg 59.8% . +4.3pp since 2021
Math
61.0%
OH avg 56.1% . +4.3pp since 2021
What this means: On the Ohio's State Tests, Ohio's statewide test, about 62 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 61 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Ohio schools, those numbers are about 60 and 56. Reading and writing scores are up about 4 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 4 points.
Ohio's State Tests results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 62.3% | 61.0% |
| 2023-24 | 56.9% | 60.0% |
| 2022-23 | 61.6% | 56.6% |
| 2021-22 | 58.0% | 56.7% |
% 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
61.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
68.3%
based on OH schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-7.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 61% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 68% 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 Crossroads Middle School
Crossroads Middle School's state test result (61.3% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crossroads Middle School this school | 1,111 | 54.4% | 61.3% |
| Creekside Middle School Fairfield | 1,111 | 65.3% | 59.5% |
| Gahanna West Middle School Gahanna | 608 | 55.8% | 62.9% |
| Minerva Park Middle School Columbus | 753 | 60.7% | 59.6% |
| Weisenborn Junior High Huber Heights | 845 | 54.3% | 44.8% |
| Lakota Ridge Junior School West Chester | 695 | 41.4% | 69.2% |
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 Crossroads Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Ohio | In Butler County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 61.3% | #261 of 316 | #8 of 10 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 61.0% | #403 of 637 ▲ 14 | #12 of 16 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 62.3% | #364 of 637 ▲ 49 | #9 of 16 ▲ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +4.3pp | #220 of 629 | #10 of 16 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,111 | #14 of 654 | #1 of 16 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.0:1 | #322 of 577 | #6 of 15 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 73.2% | #5 of 579 | #1 of 15 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 54.4% | #65 of 319 | #2 of 10 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -7.8% | #271 of 410 | #6 of 11 |
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
1,111
-42 (-4%) vs 2020
-21% since 2000-01, when it was 1,413
Student : Teacher
17.0:1
was 17.5:1
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 | 1,111 | 65.2 | 17.0:1 | 54% (604) |
| 2023-24 | 1,089 | 67.2 | 16.2:1 | 55% (602) |
| 2022-23 | 1,135 | 64.2 | 17.7:1 | 42% (475) |
| 2020-21 | 1,153 | 66 | 17.5:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 1,205 | 66.2 | 18.2:1 | 35% (422) |
| 2015-16 | 1,563 | 84 | 18.6:1 | 40% (630) |
| 2010-11 | 1,514 | 83 | 18.2:1 | 33% (504) |
| 2000-01 | 1,413 | 87 | 16.2:1 | 10% (140) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Crossroads Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 8% (1,205 to 1,111); teachers down 2% (66.2 to 65.2).
About Crossroads Middle School
Crossroads Middle School is a high-enrollment middle-grades school found in Fairfield, Ohio. The student body numbers 1,111 students, from grades 6 through 8. Average enrollment for middle schools in Ohio is about 482, so this school runs 130% larger than that.
Besides Crossroads Middle School, Fairfield City runs 9 other schools. The district enrolls 9,591 students.
White students form the largest group at Crossroads Middle School, 38% of enrollment. The next largest groups are 30% Black, 15% Hispanic, 11% Asian, and 7% multiracial. In Butler County overall, about 76% of residents are White. The chance that two students picked at random at Crossroads Middle School belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 73%.
The school has about 17.0 students per teacher and 65.2 full-time-equivalent teachers. Across middle schools in Ohio, the average ratio is about 17.0:1. Federal records put free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at 54%. That is higher than the 42% average for public schools in Butler County.
On BeatsExpectations, Crossroads Middle School is 7.0 points below its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of Ohio schools.
Recent Census Bureau figures for Butler County show that median household income is about $81,590, 33% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 8% of people live in poverty. Federal data list 90 public schools in Butler County, with a combined enrollment of about 59,107.
Fairfield Central Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles away. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Crossroads Middle School. Its average proficiency rate of 61.3% is below the 66.7% average for nearby schools.
Locale: Suburb: Large. In NCES terms, the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Federal counts put enrollment at 1,153 in 2020-21 and 1,111 in 2024-25, a 4% decrease.
Discussions about Crossroads Middle School may include sports tryouts, band and choir, and theater. Questions from prospective families are welcome too.
Butler County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
392,876
Census ACS
Median income
$81,590
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
33%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
90
59,107 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Fairfield City
- Fairfield High SchoolHigh · 2,255 students
- Creekside Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,111 students
- Fairfield West Elementary SchoolElementary · 870 students
- Fairfield Freshman High SchoolHigh · 786 students
- Fairfield Central Elementary SchoolElementary · 756 students
- Fairfield Compass ElementaryElementary · 746 students
Other schools in Fairfield
- Fairfield High SchoolHigh · 2,255 students
- Creekside Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,111 students
- Fairfield West Elementary SchoolElementary · 870 students
- Fairfield Freshman High SchoolHigh · 786 students
- Fairfield Central Elementary SchoolElementary · 756 students
- Fairfield Compass ElementaryElementary · 746 students
Other Crossroads Middle schools
5 other US public schools in 6 states are named Crossroads Middle. Crossroads Middle School is the largest of the 6.
- Crossroads Middle SchoolAcworth, GA · 908 students
- Crossroads Middle SchoolLewisberry, PA · 541 students
- Crossroads Middle SchoolGRAND RAPIDS, MI · 472 students
- CROSSROADS MIDDLE SCHOOLMERIDIAN, ID · 124 students
- Crossroads Middle SchoolWestminster, MD · 13 students
Nearby schools
- Fairfield Central Elementary School0.2 mi · 756
- Fairfield Freshman High School0.6 mi · 786
- Fairfield High School0.7 mi · 2,255
- Creekside Middle School0.8 mi · 1,111
- Fairfield Compass Elementary0.9 mi · 746
- Fairfield South Elementary School1.5 mi · 677
Frequently asked questions
About Crossroads Middle SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Crossroads Middle School?
Crossroads Middle School enrolls approximately 1,111 students in grades 06-08.
Is Crossroads Middle School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Crossroads Middle School is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Crossroads Middle School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Crossroads Middle School is approximately 17.0:1 (65 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Crossroads Middle School?
At Crossroads Middle School, the student body is approximately 38% White, 15% Hispanic, 30% Black, 11% Asian, 7% Two or more.
What district is Crossroads Middle School in?
Crossroads Middle School is part of Fairfield City.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.