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Kings Junior High School
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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 85 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 3 points since 2021, while math scores have held steady.
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Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 79% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 80% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Kings Junior High School
Kings Junior High School is one of the sizable intermediate schools in Kings Mills, Ohio, one of the schools within Kings Local, with 730 students on its rolls from grades 7 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 482 students per school, that is 51% above typical.
Kings Junior High School is one of 7 schools operated by Kings Local, a district that educates 5,073 students overall.
On the student-mix side, Kings Junior High School lists that White students make up the majority at 72%. Other groups include 11% Asian, 6% multiracial, 6% Hispanic, 4% Black. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 83%.
In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.0:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 24% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.
With demographic context factored in, Kings Junior High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 79.6%, the actual is 79.0%, a residual of -0.6 points.
In the area at large, ACS estimates for Warren County put median household income runs about $110,132, 46% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Warren County's 45 public schools (combined enrollment of about 39,898 students), Kings Junior High School is one campus in the mix.
Kings High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Kings Junior High School at 7th of 8; the average score across the group is 83.9%.
Kings Junior High School operates from an outer-ring location.
Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Kings Junior High School has grew 8%, going from 675 students in 2018 to 730 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 87% to 72% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 17.4:1 in 2018 to 19.6:1 today.
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