Jones Middle School

As an expansive middle-grades school in Upper Arlington, Ohio, Jones Middle School enrolls 733 students from grades 6 through 8, run under Upper Arlington City. By comparison, Ohio's public schools average about 482 students each, so Jones Middle School sits 52% above that benchmark.

Across the 10 schools in Upper Arlington City (6,669 students total), Jones Middle School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Jones Middle School reports that nearly all students (85%) are White. The remainder comes out to 5% Asian, 4% multiracial, 4% Hispanic, 2% Black. By comparison, Franklin County as a whole is about 59% White, so the school skews noticeably more White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 55 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 7% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is lower than Franklin County's rate of about 41%.

With demographic context factored in, Jones Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 86.2%, the actual is 84.0%, a residual of -2.2 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Franklin County shows median household earnings sit near $75,176, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Franklin County runs 402 public schools (combined enrollment of about 195,359 students), of which Jones Middle School is one.

Upper Arlington Online Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Jones Middle School. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Jones Middle School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 82.6%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Jones Middle School has held roughly steady, going from 730 students in 2018 to 733 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 12.3:1 in 2018 to 13.4:1 today.

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