Jefferson Area Junior High School

Jefferson Area Junior High School is a cozy middle-grades school in Jefferson, Ohio, run under Jefferson Area Local. The school caters to 285 students in grades 7 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 41% below the state mean of about 482.

Jefferson Area Local runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 1,685 students. Jefferson Area Junior High School is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Jefferson Area Junior High School shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (90%). Other groups include 5% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Ashtabula County as a whole.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Jefferson Area Junior High School has 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 26.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.0:1, putting Jefferson Area Junior High School higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 56% of students at Jefferson Area Junior High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, Jefferson Area Junior High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 67.7%, the actual is 62.8%, a residual of -4.9 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Ashtabula County put the typical household earns roughly $57,728 per year, roughly 16% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. Jefferson Area Junior High School is one of 34 public schools in Ashtabula County (combined enrollment of about 12,023 students).

Nearest neighbor: Jefferson Area Sr High School, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 5 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Jefferson Area Junior High School comes 4th of 4 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 66.3%.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count stayed largely flat: 281 students in 2018 compared to 285 in 2025. Class-load math has widened: from 25.0:1 in 2018 to 26.1:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.