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What's the biggest difference between Olentangy Orange Middle School and what you expected?
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Enrollment
1,056
Middle
DISTRICT 949 · STATE 482
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·OLENTANGY LOCAL·NCES 390467604600
Olentangy Orange Middle School
2680 E Orange Rd, Lewis Center, OH 43035 · (740) 657-5300 · Delaware County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL1,056 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 72% of Ohio public middle schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- C-Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Ohio public middle schools
Student : Teacher
16.8:1
63 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 19.1:1 · STATE 17.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
23%
243 students
DISTRICT 12% · STATE 43%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 337 | 32% |
| Grade 7 | 337 | 32% |
| Grade 8 | 382 | 36% |
Student demographics
67%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 58% · STATE 54% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
Ohio's State Tests 2024-25 . % Proficient or AboveEnglish Language Arts
81.0%
OH avg 59.8% . -1.5pp since 2021
Math
80.9%
OH avg 56.1% . -0.6pp since 2021
What this means: On the Ohio's State Tests, Ohio's statewide test, about 81 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 1 points since 2021, while math scores have held steady.
Ohio's State Tests results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 81.0% | 80.9% |
| 2023-24 | 79.4% | 82.4% |
| 2022-23 | 84.4% | 83.3% |
| 2021-22 | 82.4% | 81.5% |
% Proficient or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Ohio's State Tests. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
80.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
80.1%
based on OH schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+0.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 80% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 80% 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Olentangy Orange Middle School
Olentangy Orange Middle School's state test result (80.2% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Olentangy Orange Middle School this school | 1,056 | 23.0% | 80.2% |
| Edwin H Greene Intermediate Middle School Cincinnati | 996 | 18.7% | 86.4% |
| Sycamore Junior High School Cincinnati | 921 | 16.8% | 86.1% |
| Orchard Middle School Solon | 730 | 18.5% | 95.3% |
| Lakota Plains Junior School Liberty Township | 745 | 29.7% | 77.2% |
| Olentangy Shanahan Middle School Lewis Center | 1,029 | 13.9% | 86.8% |
Matched among Ohio middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Olentangy Orange Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Ohio | In Delaware County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 80.2% | #86 of 316 | #9 of 12 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 80.9% | #117 of 637 ▼ 22 | #7 of 12 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 81.0% | #87 of 637 ▲ 5 | #8 of 12 no change |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -1.0pp | #146 of 629 | #1 of 11 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,056 | #21 of 654 | #2 of 12 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.8:1 | #303 of 577 | #4 of 12 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 66.6% | #63 of 579 | #2 of 12 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 23.0% | #255 of 319 | #5 of 12 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +4.5% | #118 of 169 | N/A |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
1,056
-13 (-1%) vs 2020
-5% since 2010-11, when it was 1,111
Student : Teacher
16.8:1
was 20.2:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 1,056 | 63 | 16.8:1 | 23% (243) |
| 2023-24 | 1,042 | 63.4 | 16.4:1 | 24% (250) |
| 2022-23 | 1,080 | 65.9 | 16.4:1 | 15% (158) |
| 2020-21 | 1,069 | 53 | 20.2:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 1,011 | 56.9 | 17.8:1 | 15% (147) |
| 2015-16 | 948 | 49 | 19.4:1 | 14% (130) |
| 2010-11 | 1,111 | 69 | 16.1:1 | 11% (127) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Olentangy Orange Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students up 4% (1,011 to 1,056); teachers up 11% (56.9 to 63).
About Olentangy Orange Middle School
Olentangy Orange Middle School is a high-enrollment middle school in Lewis Center, Ohio. The school's 1,056 students are in grades 6 through 8. Enrollment is 119% higher than the average for middle schools in Ohio, which is about 482.
Olentangy Local runs 29 schools with a combined 24,133 students. Olentangy Orange Middle School is one of them.
At Olentangy Orange Middle School, White students make up 52% of the student body. After that, the student body is 19% Asian, 12% Black, 9% Hispanic, and 7% multiracial. Census figures show Delaware County is about 80% White. The school's diversity index is 67%, meaning two students picked at random have a 67% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
Federal staffing data show 63 full-time-equivalent teachers at Olentangy Orange Middle School and a ratio of 16.8:1. For comparison, middle schools in Ohio average 17.0:1. The count of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch equals 23% of enrollment. That tracks the 20% average for public schools in Delaware County.
Measured against Ohio public middle schools, Olentangy Orange Middle School receives a B+. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
Schools in Ohio with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to score about 80.1%. Olentangy Orange Middle School scores 80.2%.
Recent Census Bureau figures for Delaware County show that the median household income is $133,540, about 59% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 3%. Besides Olentangy Orange Middle School, Delaware County has 58 other public schools.
Orange High School is the closest public school, about 0.2 miles away in a straight line. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Olentangy Orange Middle School. Among the 9 closest schools with test data, this one included, Olentangy Orange Middle School ranks 8th on average proficiency.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Suburb: Large: in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, enrollment moved from 1,069 to 1,056, a small change. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 20.2:1; by 2024-25 it was 16.8:1.
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Delaware County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
226,834
Census ACS
Median income
$133,540
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
59%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
3%
Below federal line
Schools in county
59
44,100 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Olentangy Local
- Orange High SchoolHigh · 1,936 students
- Olentangy Liberty High SchoolHigh · 1,847 students
- Olentangy Berlin High SchoolHigh · 1,823 students
- Olentangy High SchoolHigh · 1,760 students
- Olentangy Shanahan Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,029 students
- Olentangy Liberty Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,005 students
Other schools in Lewis Center
- Olentangy High SchoolHigh · 1,760 students
- Olentangy Shanahan Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,029 students
- Shale Meadows Elementary SchoolElementary · 724 students
- Alum Creek Elementary SchoolElementary · 664 students
- Glen Oak Elementary SchoolElementary · 654 students
- Oak Creek Elementary SchoolElementary · 649 students
Nearby schools
- Orange High School0.2 mi · 1,936
- Freedom Trail Elementary1.2 mi · 605
- Oak Creek Elementary School1.2 mi · 649
- Glen Oak Elementary School1.3 mi · 654
- Alum Creek Elementary School1.4 mi · 664
- Olentangy Meadows Elementary School2.2 mi · 574
Frequently asked questions
About Olentangy Orange Middle SchoolHow large is Olentangy Orange Middle School?
Olentangy Orange Middle School enrolls approximately 1,056 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does Olentangy Orange Middle School serve?
Olentangy Orange Middle School serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many teachers does Olentangy Orange Middle School have?
Olentangy Orange Middle School employs 63 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.8:1.
What is the student diversity at Olentangy Orange Middle School?
Student demographics at Olentangy Orange Middle School are roughly 52% White, 9% Hispanic, 12% Black, 19% Asian, 7% Two or more.
What district is Olentangy Orange Middle School in?
Olentangy Orange Middle School is part of Olentangy Local.
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