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Loveland Middle School
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Test scores
Ohio's State Tests 2024-25 . % Proficient or AboveWhat this means: On the Ohio's State Tests, Ohio's statewide test, about 83 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 81 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Ohio schools, those numbers are about 60 and 56. Reading and writing scores are up about 3 points since 2021, while math scores are down about 2 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 83% 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 Loveland Middle School
Set in Loveland, Ohio, Loveland Middle School is a mid-sized middle school, one of the schools within Loveland City. It serves 624 students across grades 7 through 8. That puts it 29% above the typical public school in Ohio, which averages around 482 students.
Within Loveland City, which oversees 6 schools and 4,041 students, Loveland Middle School is one campus in the system.
For racial and ethnic makeup, Loveland Middle School lists that 87% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder comes out to 4% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 3% Black, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 63% White, putting the school's mix noticeably more White than the area baseline.
In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.0:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 22% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Hamilton County (around 34%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.
After controlling for student poverty, Loveland Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 80.4%, the actual is 83.3%, a residual of +2.9 points.
Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Hamilton County put median household earnings sit near $72,470, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Hamilton County runs 212 public schools (combined enrollment of about 111,403 students), of which Loveland Middle School is one.
The closest other public school is Loveland Intermediate School, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Loveland Middle School comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 83.2%.
The campus sits in a suburban setting.
Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Loveland Middle School has decreased 16%, going from 739 students in 2018 to 624 in 2025.
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Related schools
- Loveland High SchoolHigh · 1,203 students
- Loveland Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 643 students
- Loveland Elementary SchoolElementary · 617 students
- Loveland Primary SchoolElementary · 595 students
- Loveland Early Childhood CenterElementary · 359 students
- Loveland High SchoolHigh · 1,203 students
- Symmes Elementary SchoolElementary · 656 students
- Loveland Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 643 students
- Loveland Elementary SchoolElementary · 617 students
- Loveland Primary SchoolElementary · 595 students
- McCormick Elementary SchoolElementary · 587 students
- Loveland Intermediate School0.1 mi · 643
- Loveland Elementary School0.8 mi · 617
- Loveland Primary School0.8 mi · 595
- Loveland High School1.3 mi · 1,203
- Loveland Early Childhood Center1.9 mi · 359
- Symmes Elementary School1.9 mi · 656