Firelands Middle School

Firelands Middle School is a small middle-grades school in Oberlin, Ohio, part of Firelands Local. The school enrolls 407 students in grades 6 through 8.

Across the 3 schools in Firelands Local (1,661 students total), Firelands Middle School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Firelands Middle School records that 89% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder comes out to 7% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 78% White, putting the school's mix noticeably more White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Firelands Middle School has 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.0:1 average. An estimated 42% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Lorain County runs at roughly 33%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Firelands Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 73.0%, the actual is 73.8%, a residual of +0.8 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Lorain County indicate median household income runs about $73,347, roughly 29% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Firelands Middle School is one of 92 public schools in Lorain County (combined enrollment of about 42,516 students).

Firelands High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Firelands Middle School. On composite proficiency, Firelands Middle School comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 68.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count remained close to its prior level: 413 students in 2018 compared to 407 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 14.6:1 in 2018 to 15.9:1 today.

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