Midview West Elementary School

Set in Grafton, Ohio, Midview West Elementary School is a reasonably sized elementary school, one of the schools within Midview Local. It instructs 390 students across grades 3 through 4.

Midview Local comprises 7 schools with combined enrollment of 2,574 students; Midview West Elementary School is among them.

On demographics, Midview West Elementary School shows that nearly all students (84%) are White. The remainder comes out to 8% Hispanic, 5% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.9:1 average. Roughly 54% of students at Midview West Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Lorain County runs at roughly 33%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Midview West Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 68.5%, the actual is 73.7%, a residual of +5.3 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Lorain County shows median household earnings sit near $73,347, 29% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Midview West Elementary School is one of 92 public schools in Lorain County (combined enrollment of about 42,516 students).

Nearest neighbor: Midview North Elementary School, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Midview West Elementary School at 1st of 4; the average score across the group is 71.3%.

Midview West Elementary School operates from a rural location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Midview West Elementary School has shrank 23%, going from 509 students in 2018 to 390 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 90% to 84% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 16.9:1 in 2018 to 15.0:1 in 2025.

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