Heath Middle School

Heath Middle School is one of the small middle-grades schools in Heath, Ohio, one of the schools within Heath City, with 394 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8.

Across the 4 schools in Heath City (1,560 students total), Heath Middle School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Heath Middle School lists that 85% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest breaks down as 9% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Licking County as a whole.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Heath Middle School lists 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 20.7:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.0:1 average. About 44% 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, Heath Middle School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 72.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 73.8%.

In the surrounding community, Licking County reports that median household income runs about $84,426, roughly 29% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Licking County runs 63 public schools (combined enrollment of about 29,815 students), of which Heath Middle School is one.

Heath High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Heath Middle School.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 3%: 406 students in 2018 compared to 394 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 24.5:1 in 2018 to 20.7:1 in 2025.

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