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Enrollment
791
Middle
DISTRICT 756 · STATE 482
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HILLIARD CITY·NCES 390470102749
Hilliard Heritage Middle School
5670 Scioto Darby Rd, Hilliard, OH 43026 · (614) 921-7000 · Franklin County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL791 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 41% of Ohio public middle schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- A-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
13.8:1
57 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.2:1 · STATE 17.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
32%
257 students
DISTRICT 35% · 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 | 7 | 1% |
| Grade 7 | 386 | 49% |
| Grade 8 | 398 | 50% |
Student demographics
52%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 55% · 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
Test scores
Ohio's State Tests 2024-25 . % Proficient or AboveEnglish Language Arts
67.3%
OH avg 59.8% . +11.2pp since 2021
Math
73.1%
OH avg 56.1% . +0.8pp since 2021
What this means: On the Ohio's State Tests, Ohio's statewide test, about 67 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 73 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 11 points since 2021, while math scores have held steady.
Ohio's State Tests results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 67.3% | 73.1% |
| 2023-24 | 60.0% | 73.4% |
| 2022-23 | 66.5% | 73.6% |
| 2021-22 | 56.1% | 72.3% |
% 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
67.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
76.5%
based on OH schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-9.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 67% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 77% 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 Hilliard Heritage Middle School
Hilliard Heritage Middle School's state test result (67.1% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hilliard Heritage Middle School this school | 791 | 32.5% | 67.1% |
| Hilliard Weaver Middle School Hilliard | 917 | 33.3% | 70.8% |
| Hilliard Memorial Middle School Hilliard | 797 | 37.5% | 72.0% |
| Hilliard Station Sixth Grade Elementary School Hilliard | 763 | 41.3% | 71.0% |
| Hilliard Tharp Sixth Grade Elementary School Hilliard | 512 | 25.8% | 92.2% |
| Bowling Green Middle School Bowling Green | 589 | 37.2% | 69.6% |
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 Hilliard Heritage Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Ohio | In Franklin County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 67.1% | #217 of 316 | #18 of 33 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 73.1% | #236 of 637 ▼ 10 | #21 of 64 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 67.3% | #280 of 637 ▲ 86 | #20 of 64 ▲ 7 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +6.0pp | #156 of 629 | #9 of 63 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 791 | #82 of 654 | #10 of 66 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.8:1 | #93 of 577 | #9 of 59 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 52.2% | #153 of 579 | #45 of 59 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 32.5% | #203 of 319 | #22 of 33 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +3.1% | #127 of 169 | #18 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
791
-50 (-6%) vs 2020
-15% since 1990-91, when it was 934
Student : Teacher
13.8:1
was 15.3:1
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 | 791 | 57.3 | 13.8:1 | 32% (257) |
| 2023-24 | 798 | 59.3 | 13.5:1 | 35% (276) |
| 2022-23 | 796 | 60.7 | 13.1:1 | 27% (214) |
| 2020-21 | 841 | 55 | 15.3:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 767 | 48.3 | 15.9:1 | 20% (150) |
| 2015-16 | 781 | 49 | 15.9:1 | 19% (152) |
| 2010-11 | 737 | 50 | 14.7:1 | 15% (112) |
| 2000-01 | 1,118 | 81 | 13.8:1 | 6% (68) |
| 1990-91 | 934 | 50 | 18.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Hilliard Heritage Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students up 3% (767 to 791); teachers up 18% (48.3 to 57.3).
About Hilliard Heritage Middle School
Among the schools in Hilliard, Ohio, is Hilliard Heritage Middle School, a large middle school. A federal count lists 791 students at the school, in grades 6 through 8. Average enrollment for middle schools in Ohio is about 482, so this school runs 64% bigger than that.
Hilliard City, which runs Hilliard Heritage Middle School, has 24 schools and 16,298 students.
White students are the majority at Hilliard Heritage Middle School, with 67% of enrollment. Other groups make up 13% Hispanic, 8% Black, 7% Asian, and 5% multiracial. Pick two students at random and there is a 52% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Teachers at the school number 57.3 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 13.8:1. On average, middle schools in Ohio have 17.0:1, compared with 13.8:1 here. The school's lunch program data list 32% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. Public schools in Franklin County average 41%.
allk12 grades Hilliard Heritage Middle School a C+. The grade compares the school only with Ohio public middle schools, because each state gives its own test.
When test results are adjusted for free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, Hilliard Heritage Middle School is 9.4 points below its prediction. Actual: 67.1%. Predicted: 76.5%.
Census estimates describe Franklin County this way: the median household income is $75,176, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 42%, and about 11% of people live in poverty. Besides Hilliard Heritage Middle School, Franklin County has 401 other public schools.
The next-closest public school is Hilliard Darby High School, about 0.2 miles away. Hilliard Heritage Middle School is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. Ranking the closest schools with test data puts Hilliard Heritage Middle School at 8th of 8.
Locale data from NCES put Hilliard Heritage Middle School in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more (Suburb: Large).
Enrollment at Hilliard Heritage Middle School dropped 6% between 2020-21 and 2024-25, from 841 to 791 students. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 15.3:1; by 2024-25 it was 13.8:1.
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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 Hilliard City
- Hilliard Davidson High SchoolHigh · 1,847 students
- Hilliard Bradley High SchoolHigh · 1,712 students
- Hilliard Darby High SchoolHigh · 1,674 students
- Hilliard Weaver Middle SchoolMiddle · 917 students
- Hilliard Memorial Middle SchoolMiddle · 797 students
- Hilliard Station Sixth Grade Elementary SchoolMiddle · 763 students
Other schools in Hilliard
- Hilliard Davidson High SchoolHigh · 1,847 students
- Hilliard Bradley High SchoolHigh · 1,712 students
- Hilliard Darby High SchoolHigh · 1,674 students
- Hilliard Weaver Middle SchoolMiddle · 917 students
- Hilliard Memorial Middle SchoolMiddle · 797 students
- Hilliard Station Sixth Grade Elementary SchoolMiddle · 763 students
Nearby schools
- Hilliard Darby High School0.2 mi · 1,674
- Hilliard Station Sixth Grade Elementary School0.2 mi · 763
- Hilliard Online Academy0.5 mi · 92
- Scioto Darby Elementary School0.5 mi · 376
- Hoffman Trails Elementary School0.6 mi · 468
- Avery Elementary School0.9 mi · 432
Frequently asked questions
About Hilliard Heritage Middle SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Hilliard Heritage Middle School?
Hilliard Heritage Middle School enrolls approximately 791 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does Hilliard Heritage Middle School serve?
Hilliard Heritage Middle School serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many teachers does Hilliard Heritage Middle School have?
Hilliard Heritage Middle School employs 57 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.8:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Hilliard Heritage Middle School?
At Hilliard Heritage Middle School, the student body is approximately 67% White, 13% Hispanic, 8% Black, 7% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Is Hilliard Heritage Middle School public or private?
Hilliard Heritage Middle School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Hilliard City.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.