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Enrollment
753
Middle
DISTRICT 743 · STATE 482
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·UPPER ARLINGTON CITY·NCES 390449301863
Hastings Middle School
1850 Hastings Ln, Upper Arlington, OH 43220 · (614) 487-5100 · Franklin County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL753 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 79% of Ohio public middle schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- B+Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Ohio public middle schools
Student : Teacher
25.7:1
29 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 19.6:1 · STATE 17.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
7%
55 students
DISTRICT 7% · 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 | 248 | 33% |
| Grade 7 | 251 | 33% |
| Grade 8 | 254 | 34% |
Student demographics
31%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 28% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Hastings Middle School→Upper Arlington High School
Based on grade levels within Upper Arlington City. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
Ohio's State Tests 2024-25 . % Proficient or AboveEnglish Language Arts
85.9%
OH avg 59.8% . +4.7pp since 2021
Math
85.9%
OH avg 56.1% . +4.7pp since 2021
What this means: On the Ohio's State Tests, Ohio's statewide test, about 86 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 86 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 5 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 5 points.
Ohio's State Tests results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 85.9% | 85.9% |
| 2023-24 | 82.4% | 85.8% |
| 2022-23 | 80.1% | 85.5% |
| 2021-22 | 81.2% | 81.2% |
% 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
83.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
86.0%
based on OH schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-2.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 84% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 86% 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 Hastings Middle School
Hastings Middle School's state test result (83.7% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hastings Middle School this school | 753 | 7.3% | 83.7% |
| Jones Middle School Upper Arlington | 733 | 6.8% | 84.0% |
| Hudson Middle School Hudson | 1,027 | 9.2% | 90.5% |
| Revere Middle School Akron | 593 | 11.5% | 83.8% |
| Highland Middle School Medina | 824 | 9.6% | 86.8% |
| Granville Intermediate School Granville | 580 | 8.4% | 89.1% |
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 Hastings Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Ohio | In Franklin County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 83.7% | #51 of 316 | #5 of 33 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 85.9% | #61 of 637 ▲ 3 | #5 of 64 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 85.9% | #41 of 637 ▲ 20 | #4 of 64 ▲ 4 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +4.7pp | #202 of 629 | #14 of 63 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 753 | #96 of 654 | #14 of 66 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 25.7:1 | #569 of 577 | #59 of 59 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 30.6% | #280 of 579 | #56 of 59 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 7.3% | #313 of 319 | #32 of 33 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +10.1% | #79 of 169 | #12 of 26 |
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
753
+45 (+6%) vs 2020
+44% since 1990-91, when it was 524
Student : Teacher
25.7:1
was 19.7:1
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 | 753 | 29.3 | 25.7:1 | 7% (55) |
| 2023-24 | 720 | 32.5 | 22.2:1 | 9% (62) |
| 2022-23 | 709 | 31.1 | 22.8:1 | 5% (34) |
| 2020-21 | 708 | 36 | 19.7:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 684 | 57.1 | 12.0:1 | N/A |
| 2015-16 | 699 | 57 | 12.3:1 | 0% (0) |
| 2010-11 | 642 | 50 | 12.8:1 | 0% (0) |
| 2000-01 | 726 | 52 | 14.0:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 524 | 31 | 16.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Hastings Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students up 10% (684 to 753); teachers down 49% (57.1 to 29.3).
About Hastings Middle School
Hastings Middle School is a middle school with a street address in Upper Arlington, Ohio. It reported 753 students in grades 6 through 8 in 2024-25. Middle schools in Ohio average about 482 students, which makes this school 56% above average.
The district, Upper Arlington City, operates 10 schools serving 6,669 students.
The share of White students at Hastings Middle School is 83%. Other groups make up 7% multiracial, 6% Asian, and 3% Hispanic. Franklin County as a whole is about 59% White, so the school's share is higher. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Hastings Middle School scores 31%.
For every teacher at Hastings Middle School, there are about 25.7 students; the school has 29.3 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for middle schools in Ohio is 17.0:1, so this school has more students per teacher. There are 55 students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, 7% of enrollment. Public schools in Franklin County average 41%.
Hastings Middle School earns an A- on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 79% of Ohio public middle schools.
Hastings Middle School scores 83.7% on state tests, averaged across results. The predicted figure, based on its student poverty level, is 86.0%.
American Community Survey estimates for Franklin County show that the median household earns about $75,176 a year, about 42% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 11% of residents are in poverty. Franklin County has 402 public schools with about 195,359 students, including Hastings Middle School.
A public school about 0.8 miles away, Windermere Elementary School, is the closest to Hastings Middle School. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. In a group of 6 nearby schools with scores, Hastings Middle School ranks 4th on average proficiency.
Under the NCES locale system, Hastings Middle School is Suburb: Large.
Over 4 years, enrollment rose by 45 students, from 708 to 753. The student-to-teacher ratio increased from 19.7:1 in 2020-21 to 25.7:1 in 2024-25.
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Franklin County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,333,048
Census ACS
Median income
$75,176
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
42%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
402
195,359 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Upper Arlington City
- Upper Arlington High SchoolHigh · 1,908 students
- Barrington Road Elementary SchoolElementary · 800 students
- Jones Middle SchoolMiddle · 733 students
- Tremont Elementary SchoolElementary · 694 students
- Windermere Elementary SchoolElementary · 555 students
- Greensview Elementary SchoolElementary · 483 students
Other schools in Upper Arlington
- Upper Arlington High SchoolHigh · 1,908 students
- Barrington Road Elementary SchoolElementary · 800 students
- Jones Middle SchoolMiddle · 733 students
- Tremont Elementary SchoolElementary · 694 students
- Windermere Elementary SchoolElementary · 555 students
- Greensview Elementary SchoolElementary · 483 students
Other Hastings Middle schools
4 other US public schools in 5 states are named Hastings Middle. Hastings Middle School is the 3rd largest of the 5.
- Hastings Middle SchoolHASTINGS, MN · 1,183 students
- HASTINGS MIDDLE SCHOOLHASTINGS, NE · 757 students
- Hastings Middle SchoolHASTINGS, MI · 584 students
- Hastings MiddleFairhaven, MA · 415 students
Nearby schools
- Windermere Elementary School0.8 mi · 555
- Wickliffe Elementary School0.9 mi · 479
- Greensview Elementary School1.0 mi · 483
- Tremont Elementary School1.2 mi · 694
- Upper Arlington High School1.3 mi · 1,908
- Ecole Kenwood French Immersion1.4 mi · 474
Frequently asked questions
About Hastings Middle SchoolHow many students attend Hastings Middle School?
Hastings Middle School enrolls approximately 753 students in grades 06-08.
Is Hastings Middle School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Hastings Middle School is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many teachers does Hastings Middle School have?
Hastings Middle School employs 29 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 25.7:1.
What is the student diversity at Hastings Middle School?
Student demographics at Hastings Middle School are roughly 83% White, 3% Hispanic, 1% Black, 6% Asian, 7% Two or more.
What district is Hastings Middle School in?
Hastings Middle School is part of Upper Arlington City.
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