Hilltonia Middle School

Hilltonia Middle School operates as a middle-of-the-pack middle-grades school in Columbus, Ohio, overseen by Columbus City Schools District. Current enrollment sits at 420 students spanning grades 6 through 8.

Columbus City Schools District runs 115 schools in total, collectively educating 46,249 students. Hilltonia Middle School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Hilltonia Middle School logs that 36% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school shows 35% White, 18% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 23% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Hilltonia Middle School records 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.0:1 average.

Around the school, census data for Franklin County shows median household earnings sit near $75,176, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Hilltonia Middle School is one of 402 public schools in Franklin County (combined enrollment of about 195,359 students).

Columbus Bilingual West is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Hilltonia Middle School.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 13%: 485 students in 2018 compared to 420 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 45% to 35% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 14.7:1 in 2018 to 12.3:1 today.

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