Memorial Middle School

As a high-enrollment intermediate school in Mentor, Ohio, Memorial Middle School hosts 852 students from grades 6 through 8, run under Mentor Exempted Village. That puts it 77% larger than the typical public school in Ohio, which averages around 482 students.

Mentor Exempted Village runs 13 schools in total, collectively educating 6,896 students. Memorial Middle School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Memorial Middle School lists that nearly all students (85%) are White. Other groups include 4% Black, 4% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 3% Asian. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Memorial Middle School has 54 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.0:1, putting Memorial Middle School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 27% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Lake County (around 39%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Memorial Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 78.6%, the actual is 76.6%, a residual of -2.0 points.

In the area at large, Lake County reports that median household earnings sit near $80,925, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Memorial Middle School is one of 65 public schools in Lake County (combined enrollment of about 27,899 students).

Garfield Preschool is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Memorial Middle School comes 4th of 5 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 78.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Memorial Middle School has edged up 11%, going from 766 students in 2018 to 852 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 20.2:1 in 2018 to 15.7:1 today.

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