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What's the biggest difference between Memorial Middle School and what you expected?
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Enrollment
852
Middle
DISTRICT 802 · STATE 482
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MENTOR EXEMPTED VILLAGE·NCES 390454902243
Memorial Middle School
8979 Mentor Ave, Mentor, OH 44060 · (440) 974-2250 · Lake County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL852 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 68% 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.
- B-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
15.7:1
54 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.9:1 · STATE 17.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
27%
230 students
DISTRICT 32% · 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 6 | 273 | 32% |
| Grade 7 | 266 | 31% |
| Grade 8 | 313 | 37% |
Student demographics
27%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 30% · 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
Memorial Middle School→Mentor High School
Based on grade levels within Mentor Exempted Village. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
Ohio's State Tests 2024-25 . % Proficient or AboveEnglish Language Arts
77.5%
OH avg 59.8% . +0.2pp since 2021
Math
76.7%
OH avg 56.1% . +4.3pp 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 77 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Ohio schools, those numbers are about 60 and 56. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2021, while math scores are up about 4 points.
Ohio's State Tests results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 77.5% | 76.7% |
| 2023-24 | 75.3% | 77.3% |
| 2022-23 | 78.3% | 76.3% |
| 2021-22 | 77.3% | 72.5% |
% 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
76.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
78.6%
based on OH schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-2.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 77% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 79% 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 Memorial Middle School
Memorial Middle School's state test result (76.6% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memorial Middle School this school | 852 | 27.0% | 76.6% |
| Milford Junior High School Milford | 978 | 27.4% | 76.8% |
| Olmsted Falls Middle School Olmsted Falls | 747 | 25.8% | 73.3% |
| Herman K Ankeney Middle School Beavercreek | 799 | 26.5% | 73.3% |
| Green Intermediate Elementary School Uniontown | 873 | 27.7% | 81.2% |
| North Canton Middle School North Canton | 957 | 31.2% | 80.5% |
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 Memorial Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Ohio | In Lake County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 76.6% | #115 of 316 | #3 of 10 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 76.7% | #176 of 637 ▼ 17 | #3 of 11 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 77.5% | #130 of 637 ▲ 7 | #3 of 11 no change |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +2.2pp | #329 of 629 | #5 of 11 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 852 | #58 of 654 | #1 of 11 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.7:1 | #241 of 577 | #5 of 11 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 26.8% | #318 of 579 | #9 of 11 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 27.0% | #230 of 319 | #8 of 10 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +11.2% | #73 of 169 | N/A |
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
852
+16 (+2%) vs 2020
+4% since 1990-91, when it was 822
Student : Teacher
15.7:1
was 16.4:1
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 | 852 | 54.1 | 15.7:1 | 27% (230) |
| 2023-24 | 848 | 55.9 | 15.2:1 | 27% (230) |
| 2022-23 | 897 | 54.2 | 16.6:1 | 21% (189) |
| 2020-21 | 836 | 51 | 16.4:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 766 | 38 | 20.2:1 | 20% (155) |
| 2015-16 | 713 | 39 | 18.3:1 | 22% (157) |
| 2010-11 | 715 | 47 | 15.2:1 | 17% (123) |
| 2000-01 | 876 | 51 | 17.2:1 | 5% (40) |
| 1990-91 | 822 | 39 | 21.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Memorial Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students up 11% (766 to 852); teachers up 42% (38 to 54.1).
About Memorial Middle School
The public middle-grades school Memorial Middle School is located in Mentor, Ohio. The grade span is 6 through 8, and enrollment is 852 students. Average enrollment for middle schools in Ohio is about 482, so this school runs 77% bigger than that.
Memorial Middle School is one of 13 schools in Mentor Exempted Village, which enrolls 6,896 students in total.
The large majority of students at Memorial Middle School, 85%, are White. Next come 4% Black, 4% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, and 3% Asian. County-wide, about 86% of residents are White. The chance that two students picked at random at Memorial Middle School belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 27%.
Federal records show a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.7:1 at Memorial Middle School, with 54.1 full-time-equivalent teachers. Among middle schools in Ohio, the typical ratio is 17.0:1. The count of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch equals 27% of enrollment. The average for public schools in Lake County is 39%.
Memorial Middle School is graded B+ by allk12, scoring above 68% of Ohio public middle schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the BeatsExpectations model predicts an average proficiency rate on state tests of 78.6% for Memorial Middle School. The school posts 76.6%, 2.0 points below the prediction.
According to the American Community Survey, in Lake County, median household income is about $80,925, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 32% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 5%. Memorial Middle School is one of 65 public schools in Lake County, which together enroll about 27,899 students.
The school nearest to Memorial Middle School is Garfield Preschool, at a distance of less than a tenth of a mile. Within five miles of Memorial Middle School, there are at least 8 other public schools. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 78.9%; Memorial Middle School's is 76.6%, ranking 4th of 5.
Under the NCES locale system, Memorial Middle School is Suburb: Large.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment held near 852, starting from 836.
Community posts for Memorial Middle School can cover sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Lake County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
232,216
Census ACS
Median income
$80,925
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
32%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
65
27,899 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Mentor Exempted Village
- Mentor High SchoolHigh · 2,217 students
- Shore Middle SchoolMiddle · 752 students
- Ridge Elementary SchoolElementary · 661 students
- Hopkins Elementary SchoolElementary · 466 students
- Bellflower Elementary SchoolElementary · 465 students
- Orchard Hollow Elementary SchoolElementary · 359 students
Other schools in Mentor
- Mentor High SchoolHigh · 2,217 students
- Shore Middle SchoolMiddle · 752 students
- Ridge Elementary SchoolElementary · 661 students
- Hopkins Elementary SchoolElementary · 466 students
- Bellflower Elementary SchoolElementary · 465 students
- Orchard Hollow Elementary SchoolElementary · 359 students
Other Memorial Middle schools
24 other US public schools in 13 states are named Memorial Middle. Memorial Middle School is the 5th largest of the 25.
- Memorial Middle SchoolHOUSTON, TX · 1,236 students
- Memorial Middle School - 04Sioux Falls, SD · 1,133 students
- Memorial Middle SchoolEDINBURG, TX · 1,045 students
- MEMORIAL MIDDLE SCHOOLTAMPA, FL · 973 students
- Memorial Middle SchoolConyers, GA · 774 students
Nearby schools
- Garfield Preschool0.1 mi · 124
- Hopkins Elementary School0.8 mi · 466
- Mentor High School1.6 mi · 2,217
- Mentor High School Preschool1.6 mi · 38
- Orchard Hollow Elementary School2.0 mi · 359
- Fairfax Elementary School2.0 mi · 310
Frequently asked questions
About Memorial Middle SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Memorial Middle School?
Memorial Middle School enrolls approximately 852 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does Memorial Middle School serve?
Memorial Middle School serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at Memorial Middle School?
Approximately 15.7:1 students per teacher at Memorial Middle School.
How diverse is Memorial Middle School?
Memorial Middle School reports a student body of 85% White, 4% Hispanic, 4% Black, 3% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Is Memorial Middle School public or private?
Memorial Middle School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Mentor Exempted Village.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.