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Milford Junior High School
Test scores
Ohio's State Tests 2024-25 . % Proficient or AboveWhat this means: On the Ohio's State Tests, Ohio's statewide test, about 74 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 down about 4 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 2 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 77% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 78% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Milford Junior High School
Milford Junior High School is a big middle school in Milford, Ohio, overseen by Milford Exempted Village. The school educates 978 students in grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Ohio's public schools average about 482 students each, so Milford Junior High School sits 103% bigger than that benchmark.
Within Milford Exempted Village, which oversees 10 schools and 5,961 students, Milford Junior High School is one campus in the system.
On demographics, Milford Junior High School lists that 87% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder reads as 4% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 3% Black.
On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Milford Junior High School has 52 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.8:1. The state averages around 17.0:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 27% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Clermont County runs at roughly 41%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.
After controlling for student poverty, Milford Junior High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 78.5%; this one delivers 76.8%.
Across the wider county, Clermont County reports that median household earnings sit near $85,510, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Clermont County's 47 public schools (combined enrollment of about 26,246 students), Milford Junior High School is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is Milford Sr High School, roughly 0.3 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Milford Junior High School at 5th of 6; the average score across the group is 80.7%.
The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.
Over the past 7-year window. Milford Junior High School's enrollment has ticked down 4% since 2018, when it stood at 1,018 (now 978). Class-load math has fell: from 20.8:1 in 2018 to 18.8:1 in 2025.
On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to weigh in.
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