Hilliard Memorial Middle School

Hilliard Memorial Middle School operates as a big middle-grades school in Hilliard, Ohio, part of Hilliard City. Current enrollment sits at 797 students spanning grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 65% larger than the state mean of about 482.

Hilliard City runs 24 schools in total, collectively educating 16,298 students. Hilliard Memorial Middle School is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Hilliard Memorial Middle School logs that White students make up the majority at 63%. The remainder looks like 13% Hispanic, 12% Black, 7% Asian, 6% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Franklin County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 53 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 38% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, Hilliard Memorial Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 74.6%, the actual is 72.0%, a residual of -2.6 points.

Around the school, census data for Franklin County shows median household income runs about $75,176, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Franklin County runs 402 public schools (combined enrollment of about 195,359 students), of which Hilliard Memorial Middle School is one.

The closest other public school is Hilliard Bradley High School, roughly 0.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Hilliard Memorial Middle School at 4th of 7; the average score across the group is 71.1%.

Hilliard Memorial Middle School operates from a small-town location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Hilliard Memorial Middle School has shrank 7%, going from 855 students in 2018 to 797 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 70% to 63% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 18.7:1 in 2018 to 15.0:1 today.

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