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How has Hilliard Memorial Middle School changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
797
Middle
DISTRICT 756 · STATE 482
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HILLIARD CITY·NCES 390470104612
Hilliard Memorial Middle School
2900 Walker Rd, Hilliard, OH 43026 · (614) 921-7600 · Franklin County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE41-RURALREGULAR SCHOOL797 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 53% 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.
- C+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- C-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
15.0:1
53 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.2:1 · STATE 17.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
38%
299 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 | 6 | 1% |
| Grade 7 | 399 | 50% |
| Grade 8 | 392 | 49% |
Student demographics
57%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
69.6%
OH avg 59.8% . -0.4pp since 2021
Math
79.3%
OH avg 56.1% . -0.8pp since 2021
What this means: On the Ohio's State Tests, Ohio's statewide test, about 70 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 79 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Ohio schools, those numbers are about 60 and 56. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2021, while math scores have held steady.
Ohio's State Tests results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 69.6% | 79.3% |
| 2023-24 | 63.8% | 77.8% |
| 2022-23 | 72.1% | 78.5% |
| 2021-22 | 70.0% | 80.2% |
% 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
72.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
74.6%
based on OH schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-2.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 72% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 75% 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 Memorial Middle School
Hilliard Memorial Middle School's state test result (72.0% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hilliard Memorial Middle School this school | 797 | 37.5% | 72.0% |
| Hilliard Station Sixth Grade Elementary School Hilliard | 763 | 41.3% | 71.0% |
| Hilliard Heritage Middle School Hilliard | 791 | 32.5% | 67.1% |
| Hilliard Weaver Middle School Hilliard | 917 | 33.3% | 70.8% |
| Worthingway Middle School Worthington | 640 | 31.4% | 68.7% |
| Genoa Middle School Westerville | 702 | 33.8% | 81.0% |
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 Memorial Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Ohio | In Franklin County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 72.0% | #163 of 316 | #12 of 33 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 79.3% | #140 of 637 ▲ 12 | #12 of 64 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 69.6% | #240 of 637 ▲ 60 | #17 of 64 ▲ 5 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -0.6pp | #161 of 629 | #20 of 63 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 797 | #80 of 654 | #9 of 66 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.0:1 | #177 of 577 | #25 of 59 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 56.9% | #127 of 579 | #38 of 59 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 37.5% | #171 of 319 | #19 of 33 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -6.8% | #297 of 410 | #18 of 30 |
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
797
-6 (-1%) vs 2020
+2% since 2010-11, when it was 783
Student : Teacher
15.0:1
was 17.5:1
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 | 797 | 53.1 | 15.0:1 | 38% (299) |
| 2023-24 | 789 | 53 | 14.9:1 | 35% (279) |
| 2022-23 | 790 | 48 | 16.5:1 | 29% (226) |
| 2020-21 | 803 | 46 | 17.5:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 855 | 45.8 | 18.7:1 | 27% (231) |
| 2015-16 | 842 | 46 | 18.3:1 | 24% (202) |
| 2010-11 | 783 | 52 | 15.1:1 | 25% (194) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Hilliard Memorial Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 7% (855 to 797); teachers up 16% (45.8 to 53.1).
About Hilliard Memorial Middle School
Hilliard Memorial Middle School is a large middle school. Its address is in Hilliard, Ohio. A federal count lists 797 students at the school, in grades 6 through 8. An average school in this group (middle schools in Ohio) has about 482 students.
Hilliard City has a total of 24 schools and 16,298 students, Hilliard Memorial Middle School among them.
By race and ethnicity, Hilliard Memorial Middle School is 63% White. The rest of enrollment is 13% Hispanic, 12% Black, 7% Asian, and 6% multiracial. The White share in Franklin County as a whole is similar, at about 59%. The chance that two students picked at random at Hilliard Memorial Middle School belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 57%.
Dividing enrollment by its 53.1 full-time-equivalent teachers gives a ratio of about 15.0:1. The average ratio among middle schools in Ohio is 17.0:1, higher than at this school. Hilliard Memorial Middle School reports 38% of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals. Across public schools in Franklin County, the average is about the same, 41%.
Hilliard Memorial Middle School is graded B- by allk12, scoring above 53% of Ohio public middle schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Hilliard Memorial Middle School posts an average proficiency rate on state tests of 72.0%, compared with a predicted 74.6%. It is not in the top or bottom 10% of Ohio schools on BeatsExpectations.
Federal survey data for Franklin County show that median household income is about $75,176, about 42% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 11%. A total of 402 public schools operate in Franklin County, serving about 195,359 students.
Hilliard Bradley High School is the closest public school, about 0.3 miles away in a straight line. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. Hilliard Memorial Middle School places 4th of 7 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
Federal data place Hilliard Memorial Middle School in the Rural: Fringe locale, which means it is in rural territory close to an urban area.
In 2020-21, Hilliard Memorial Middle School enrolled 803; in 2024-25, 797. There were fewer students per teacher in 2024-25 (15.0:1) than in 2020-21 (17.5:1).
Families, students, and staff can use this page to discuss science fairs, picture day, and bus routes at Hilliard Memorial Middle School. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
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 Heritage Middle SchoolMiddle · 791 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 Heritage Middle SchoolMiddle · 791 students
- Hilliard Station Sixth Grade Elementary SchoolMiddle · 763 students
Nearby schools
- Hilliard Bradley High School0.3 mi · 1,712
- Brown Elementary School0.5 mi · 448
- Hilliard City School District Preschool1.2 mi · 415
- Alton Darby Elementary School1.2 mi · 533
- Darby Creek Elementary School1.4 mi · 526
- Hilliard Horizon Elementary School2.6 mi · 596
Frequently asked questions
About Hilliard Memorial Middle SchoolHow many students attend Hilliard Memorial Middle School?
Hilliard Memorial Middle School enrolls approximately 797 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does Hilliard Memorial Middle School serve?
Hilliard Memorial Middle School serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at Hilliard Memorial Middle School?
Approximately 15.0:1 students per teacher at Hilliard Memorial Middle School.
What is the student diversity at Hilliard Memorial Middle School?
Student demographics at Hilliard Memorial Middle School are roughly 63% White, 13% Hispanic, 12% Black, 7% Asian, 6% Two or more.
What district is Hilliard Memorial Middle School in?
Hilliard Memorial Middle School is part of Hilliard City.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.