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Kilbourne Middle School
Test scores
Ohio's State Tests 2024-25 . % Proficient or AboveWhat this means: On the Ohio's State Tests, Ohio's statewide test, about 77 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 74 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Ohio schools, those numbers are about 60 and 56. Reading and writing scores are down about 4 points since 2021, while math scores are down about 6 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 79% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 83% typical for Ohio schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Ohio's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Kilbourne Middle School
Located at 50 E Dublin Granville Rd, in Worthington, Ohio, Kilbourne Middle School is a middle-of-the-pack intermediate school that instructs 464 students (grades 6 through 8), run under Worthington City.
Worthington City runs 19 schools in total, collectively educating 10,874 students. Kilbourne Middle School is one of those campuses.
In terms of who attends, Kilbourne Middle School records that the largest single group is White, at 79% of enrollment. The remainder breaks down as 10% Black, 6% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 59% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully more White than the area baseline.
Looking at school resources, The school employs 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.2:1. The state averages around 17.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 16% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably below Franklin County's rate of about 41%.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Kilbourne Middle School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 82.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 78.5%.
Zooming out to the county, Franklin County reports that median household income runs about $75,176, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Franklin County's 402 public schools (combined enrollment of about 195,359 students), Kilbourne Middle School is one campus in the mix.
Evening Street Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Kilbourne Middle School. On composite proficiency, Kilbourne Middle School comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 76.7%.
Kilbourne Middle School operates from a commuter-belt location.
Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count held roughly steady: 470 students in 2018 compared to 464 in 2025. The White share of enrollment grew from 73% to 79% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 15.7:1 in 2018 to 14.2:1 today.
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