Heskett Middle School

Set in Bedford, Ohio, Heskett Middle School is an average-sized intermediate school, part of Bedford City. It hosts 592 students across grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Ohio's public schools average about 482 students each, so Heskett Middle School sits 23% larger than that benchmark.

Bedford City runs 7 schools in total, collectively educating 2,887 students. Heskett Middle School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Heskett Middle School logs that Black students make up the majority at 80%; the rest reads as 9% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 5% White. The wider county runs roughly 29% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, Heskett Middle School has 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.1:1. The state averages around 17.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Cuyahoga County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $64,468 per year, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. Heskett Middle School is one of 352 public schools in Cuyahoga County (combined enrollment of about 155,924 students).

The closest other public school is Columbus Intermediate School, roughly 0.8 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Heskett Middle School has ticked up 10%, going from 536 students in 2018 to 592 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment grew from 4% to 9% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 16.9:1 in 2018 to 15.1:1 in 2025.

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