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North Canton Intermediate 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 83 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 89 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Ohio schools, those numbers are about 60 and 56. Reading and writing scores are up about 4 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 4 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 85% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 76% 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 North Canton Intermediate School
North Canton Intermediate School operates as a high-enrollment primary school in North Canton, Ohio, overseen by North Canton City. Current enrollment sits at 888 students spanning grades 3 through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 120% bigger than the state mean of about 404.
Across the 4 schools in North Canton City (4,334 students total), North Canton Intermediate School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
On the student-mix side, North Canton Intermediate School logs that 82% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest comes out to 8% multiracial, 4% Hispanic, 4% Black, 2% Asian. Compared to Stark County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.
In terms of school funding signals, North Canton Intermediate School records 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.2:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 34% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, North Canton Intermediate School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 76.1%, the actual is 85.0%, a residual of +8.8 points.
Around the school, census data for Stark County shows the typical household earns roughly $67,934 per year, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. North Canton Intermediate School is one of 101 public schools in Stark County (combined enrollment of about 53,798 students).
Nearest neighbor: Hoover High School, around 0.8 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, North Canton Intermediate School comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 78.8%.
North Canton Intermediate School operates from a commuter-belt location.
Trend over the last 7 years. North Canton Intermediate School's enrollment has climbed 124% since 2018, when it stood at 396 (now 888). Over the same period, the White share declined from 90% to 82%.
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Related schools
- Hoover High SchoolHigh · 1,502 students
- North Canton Primary SchoolElementary · 987 students
- North Canton Middle SchoolMiddle · 957 students
- Greentown Intermediate SchoolCombined
- Mary L Evans Early Childhood CenterCombined
- Northwood Elementary SchoolCombined
- Hoover High SchoolHigh · 1,502 students
- North Canton Primary SchoolElementary · 987 students
- North Canton Middle SchoolMiddle · 957 students
- Greentown Intermediate SchoolCombined
- Mary L Evans Early Childhood CenterCombined
- Northwood Elementary SchoolCombined
- Hoover High School0.8 mi · 1,502
- North Canton Primary School0.8 mi · 987
- North Canton Middle School0.8 mi · 957
- Portage Collaborative Montessori School1.8 mi · 187
- Glenwood Intermediate School2.0 mi · 817
- GlenOak High School2.2 mi · 2,086