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Enrollment
730
Middle
DISTRICT 770 · STATE 482
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·KINGS LOCAL·NCES 390504303943
Kings Junior High School
5620 Columbia Rd, Kings Mills, OH 45034 · (513) 398-8050 · Warren County
GRADES 07–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL730 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 69% of Ohio public middle schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- C-Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Ohio public middle schools
Student : Teacher
19.6:1
37 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 21.5:1 · STATE 17.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
24%
177 students
DISTRICT 24% · STATE 43%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 7 | 350 | 48% |
| Grade 8 | 380 | 52% |
Student demographics
45%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 46% · STATE 54% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Kings Junior High School→Kings High School
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Kings Local. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
Ohio's State Tests 2024-25 . % Proficient or AboveEnglish Language Arts
76.5%
OH avg 59.8% . -3.3pp since 2021
Math
85.0%
OH avg 56.1% . -0.0pp since 2021
What 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.
Ohio's State Tests results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 76.5% | 85.0% |
| 2023-24 | 77.3% | 84.4% |
| 2022-23 | 82.3% | 84.2% |
| 2021-22 | 79.8% | 85.1% |
% Proficient or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Ohio's State Tests. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
79.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
79.6%
based on OH schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-0.6pp
below demographic expectation
What 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Kings Junior High School
Kings Junior High School's state test result (79.0% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kings Junior High School this school | 730 | 24.2% | 79.0% |
| Columbia Intermediate School Kings Mills | 809 | 22.6% | 82.6% |
| Hadley E Watts Middle School Dayton | 777 | 26.3% | 74.3% |
| Tallmadge Middle School Tallmadge | 614 | 31.6% | 70.5% |
| Liberty Junior School Liberty Township | 681 | 22.6% | 81.6% |
| Dover Intermediate School Westlake | 471 | 23.1% | 84.9% |
Matched among Ohio middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Kings Junior High School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Ohio | In Warren County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 79.0% | #95 of 316 | #5 of 10 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 85.0% | #73 of 637 ▲ 3 | #4 of 12 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 76.5% | #146 of 637 ▼ 31 | #5 of 12 ▼ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -1.6pp | #121 of 629 | #5 of 12 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 730 | #109 of 654 | #7 of 12 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 19.6:1 | #466 of 577 | #4 of 12 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 45.4% | #184 of 579 | #2 of 12 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 24.2% | #246 of 319 | #6 of 10 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +8.1% | #92 of 169 | #5 of 7 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
730
+6 (+1%) vs 2020
+89% since 1990-91, when it was 387
Student : Teacher
19.6:1
was 18.1:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 730 | 37.2 | 19.6:1 | 24% (177) |
| 2023-24 | 733 | 35.3 | 20.8:1 | 23% (168) |
| 2022-23 | 714 | 34.3 | 20.8:1 | 15% (109) |
| 2020-21 | 724 | 40 | 18.1:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 675 | 38.8 | 17.4:1 | 17% (112) |
| 2015-16 | 649 | 39 | 16.6:1 | 18% (120) |
| 2010-11 | 615 | 33 | 18.6:1 | 21% (128) |
| 2000-01 | 578 | 32 | 18.1:1 | 5% (27) |
| 1990-91 | 387 | 19 | 20.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Kings Junior High School.
Since 2017-18: students up 8% (675 to 730); teachers down 4% (38.8 to 37.2).
About Kings Junior High School
Kings Junior High School is one of the public schools in Kings Mills, Ohio. It is a high-enrollment middle-grades school. The grade span is 7 through 8, and enrollment is 730 students. Average enrollment for middle schools in Ohio is about 482, so this school runs 51% bigger than that.
Kings Local runs 7 schools with a combined 5,073 students. Kings Junior High School is one of them.
Kings Junior High School's enrollment is 72% White. Other groups make up 11% Asian, 6% multiracial, 6% Hispanic, and 4% Black. County-wide, 83% of Warren County residents are White. Kings Junior High School has a diversity index of 45%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
The count of teachers at Kings Junior High School is 37.2 full-time equivalents, for a ratio of 19.6:1. The average ratio among middle schools in Ohio is 17.0:1, lower than at this school. Around 24% of the school's students qualify for free or reduced-price meals. Across public schools in Warren County, the average is about the same, 24%.
Measured against Ohio public middle schools, Kings Junior High School receives a B+. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
A school with Kings Junior High School's lunch-eligibility share in Ohio is predicted to score 79.6%. Kings Junior High School scores 79.0%, within a point of that line.
Warren County census figures show that median household income is about $110,132, 46% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Kings Junior High School is among the 45 public schools in Warren County.
The closest public school to Kings Junior High School is Kings High School, less than a tenth of a mile away. Within five miles of Kings Junior High School, there are at least 8 other public schools. On proficiency, Kings Junior High School is behind the 83.9% nearby average, ranking 7th of 8.
Its location is classified as Suburb: Large by the National Center for Education Statistics.
The school's size has been steady, with 724 students in 2020-21 and 730 in 2024-25. Its ratio of students to teachers was 18.1:1 in 2020-21, and 19.6:1 in 2024-25.
Community posts for Kings Junior High School can cover sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Warren County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
250,008
Census ACS
Median income
$110,132
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
46%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
45
39,898 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Kings Local
- Kings High SchoolHigh · 1,457 students
- Columbia Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 809 students
- J F Burns Elementary SchoolElementary · 807 students
- Kings Mills Elementary SchoolElementary · 567 students
- South Lebanon Elementary SchoolElementary · 523 students
- Kings Mills Educational CenterElementary · 180 students
Other schools in Kings Mills
- Kings High SchoolHigh · 1,457 students
- Columbia Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 809 students
- J F Burns Elementary SchoolElementary · 807 students
- Kings Mills Elementary SchoolElementary · 567 students
- Kings Mills Educational CenterElementary · 180 students
Nearby schools
- Kings High School0.1 mi · 1,457
- Kings Mills Educational Center0.5 mi · 180
- Kings Mills Elementary School0.6 mi · 567
- South Lebanon Elementary School1.9 mi · 523
- William Mason High School2.7 mi · 3,435
- Mason Middle School2.9 mi · 1,637
Frequently asked questions
About Kings Junior High SchoolHow large is Kings Junior High School?
Kings Junior High School enrolls approximately 730 students in grades 07-08.
What grades does Kings Junior High School serve?
Kings Junior High School serves grades 07-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Kings Junior High School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Kings Junior High School is approximately 19.6:1 (37 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Kings Junior High School?
At Kings Junior High School, the student body is approximately 72% White, 6% Hispanic, 4% Black, 11% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Is Kings Junior High School public or private?
Kings Junior High School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Kings Local.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.