Jefferson Junior High School

Jefferson Junior High School, a medium-sized middle-grades school in Toledo, Ohio, operated by Washington Local, enrolls 496 students, covering grades 7 through 8.

Washington Local runs 11 schools in total, collectively educating 6,661 students. Jefferson Junior High School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Jefferson Junior High School logs that 56% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder breaks down as 16% Hispanic, 16% Black, 11% multiracial. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 68%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.0:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 63% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Lucas County runs at roughly 44%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Jefferson Junior High School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 65.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 58.9%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Lucas County indicate median household earnings sit near $62,224, roughly 29% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Jefferson Junior High School is one of 143 public schools in Lucas County (combined enrollment of about 73,839 students).

Whitmer High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Jefferson Junior High School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 53.0%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 11%: 559 students in 2018 compared to 496 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 69% to 56%. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 15.5:1 in 2018 to 19.8:1 today.

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