Holt Crossing Intermediate School

Holt Crossing Intermediate School, a large middle school in Grove City, Ohio, part of South-Western City, teaches 733 students, covering grades 5 through 6. Compared to the state average of about 482 students per school, that is 52% above typical.

Within South-Western City, which oversees 33 schools and 21,873 students, Holt Crossing Intermediate School is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Holt Crossing Intermediate School reports that the most-represented group is White (40%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school reports 26% Hispanic, 24% Black, 7% multiracial, 4% Asian. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 59%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Holt Crossing Intermediate School has 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 20.5:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.0:1 average. About 78% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Franklin County (around 41%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Holt Crossing Intermediate School is in the bottom 10% of Ohio public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 59.5%; Holt Crossing Intermediate School posts 47.1%, -12.4 points below that line.

In the area at large, Franklin County reports that median household income runs about $75,176, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Franklin County runs 402 public schools (combined enrollment of about 195,359 students), of which Holt Crossing Intermediate School is one.

Bolton Crossing Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Holt Crossing Intermediate School. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Holt Crossing Intermediate School ranks 7th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 57.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count stayed largely flat: 747 students in 2018 compared to 733 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 46% to 40% across the same window. Class-load math has widened: from 19.0:1 in 2018 to 20.5:1 in 2025.

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