Hillside Middle School

Hillside Middle School, a moderately sized middle-grades school in Seven Hills, Ohio, part of Parma City, works with 717 students, covering grades 5 through 8. By comparison, Ohio's public schools average about 482 students each, so Hillside Middle School sits 49% bigger than that benchmark.

Across the 12 schools in Parma City (8,703 students total), Hillside Middle School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Hillside Middle School reports that 71% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder is composed of 13% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 6% Black, 3% Asian. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 58%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.0:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Cuyahoga County indicate median household earnings sit near $64,468, roughly 37% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Cuyahoga County runs 352 public schools (combined enrollment of about 155,924 students), of which Hillside Middle School is one.

Normandy High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Hillside Middle School has edged up 13%, going from 632 students in 2018 to 717 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share declined from 84% to 71%. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 17.1:1 in 2018 to 18.9:1 today.

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