Edgewood Middle School

Edgewood Middle School is a middle school of average-sized scale in Wooster, Ohio, one of the schools within Wooster City, works with 704 students in grades 5 through 7. Enrollment runs roughly 46% bigger than the state mean of about 482.

Within Wooster City, which oversees 7 schools and 3,222 students, Edgewood Middle School is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Edgewood Middle School shows that 85% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 7% multiracial, 4% Hispanic, 2% Black.

On the income-and-resources front, Edgewood Middle School lists 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.4:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 51% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, Edgewood Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 69.4%, the actual is 63.9%, a residual of -5.6 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Wayne County put the typical household earns roughly $73,574 per year, roughly 25% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Edgewood Middle School is one of 45 public schools in Wayne County (combined enrollment of about 14,479 students).

Nearest neighbor: Kean Elementary School, around 0.7 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Edgewood Middle School comes 3rd of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 63.6%.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 11%: 787 students in 2018 compared to 704 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 19.8:1 in 2018 to 16.4:1 today.

On allk12, the feed for Edgewood Middle School typically covers enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.