Eastlake Middle School

Eastlake Middle School is a compact middle-grades school in Eastlake, Ohio, run under Willoughby-Eastlake City. The school educates 330 students in grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Ohio's public schools average about 482 students each, so Eastlake Middle School sits 32% below that benchmark.

Willoughby-Eastlake City runs 13 schools in total, collectively educating 6,861 students. Eastlake Middle School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Eastlake Middle School lists that the largest single group is White, at 76% of enrollment. Other groups include 10% multiracial, 9% Black, 5% Hispanic. By comparison, Lake County as a whole is about 86% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.7:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.0:1, putting Eastlake Middle School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 65% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Lake County runs at roughly 39%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Eastlake Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 64.4%, the actual is 55.9%, a residual of -8.6 points.

Across the wider county, Lake County reports that the typical household earns roughly $80,925 per year, roughly 32% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Eastlake Middle School is one of 65 public schools in Lake County (combined enrollment of about 27,899 students).

The closest other public school is Jefferson Elementary School, roughly 0.1 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), Eastlake Middle School ranks 7th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 61.6%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 14%: 383 students in 2018 compared to 330 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share decreased from 90% to 76%.

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