Lake Middle School

Set in Millbury, Ohio, Lake Middle School is a modestly sized intermediate school, one of the schools within Lake Local. It enrolls 362 students across grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 482 students per school, that is 25% smaller than typical.

Lake Local runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 4,870 students. Lake Middle School is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Lake Middle School records that 85% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder reads as 9% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.0:1 average.

Zooming out to the county, Wood County reports that median household income runs about $74,216, about 37% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Lake Middle School is one of 38 public schools in Wood County (combined enrollment of about 19,968 students).

Lake High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Lake Middle School.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Lake Middle School's enrollment has decreased 11% since 2018, when it stood at 407 (now 362). The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 17.6:1 in 2018 to 15.1:1 today.

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