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Miami Trace Middle School
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Ohio's State Tests 2024-25 . % Proficient or AboveWhat this means: On the Ohio's State Tests, Ohio's statewide test, about 58 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 69 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 6 points since 2021, while math scores are down about 5 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 66% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 71% 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 Miami Trace Middle School
Set in Washington Court House, Ohio, Miami Trace Middle School is a middle-of-the-pack middle-grades school, one of the schools within Miami Trace Local. It hosts 611 students across grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Ohio's public schools average about 482 students each, so Miami Trace Middle School sits 27% above that benchmark.
Miami Trace Local runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 2,497 students. Miami Trace Middle School is one of those campuses.
On demographics, Miami Trace Middle School logs that 87% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 6% multiracial, 5% Hispanic.
On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.0:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 48% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.
With demographic context factored in, Miami Trace Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 70.8%; this one delivers 65.7%.
Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Fayette County) reports that median household income runs about $63,275, roughly 14% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Miami Trace Middle School is one of 7 public schools in Fayette County (combined enrollment of about 4,322 students).
Nearest neighbor: Miami Trace Elementary School, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around Miami Trace Middle School. On composite proficiency, Miami Trace Middle School comes 4th of 4 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 69.7%.
Miami Trace Middle School operates from a countryside location.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 7%: 659 students in 2018 compared to 611 in 2025.
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