Highland Middle School

Highland Middle School operates as a small 6-8 campus in Marengo, Ohio, part of Highland Local. Current enrollment sits at 389 students spanning grades 6 through 8.

Highland Middle School is one of 8 schools operated by Highland Local, a district that enrolls 5,029 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Highland Middle School lists that 95% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder consists of 2% multiracial, 2% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.2:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.0:1, putting Highland Middle School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 40% of students at Highland Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably below Morrow County's rate of about 54%.

With demographic context factored in, Highland Middle School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 73.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 65.3%.

Across the wider county, Morrow County reports that median household earnings sit near $75,283, about 19% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, Morrow County runs 12 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,685 students), of which Highland Middle School is one.

The closest other public school is Highland High School, roughly 0.2 miles away. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Highland Middle School comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 73.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Over the past 7-year window. Highland Middle School's enrollment has edged down 10% since 2018, when it stood at 430 (now 389). The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 18.7:1 in 2018 to 16.2:1 today.

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