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If you could change one rule at Olentangy Shanahan Middle School, what would it be?
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Enrollment
1,029
Middle
DISTRICT 949 · STATE 482
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·OLENTANGY LOCAL·NCES 390467602650
Olentangy Shanahan Middle School
814 Shanahan Rd, Lewis Center, OH 43035 · (740) 657-4300 · Delaware County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL1,029 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 90% of Ohio public middle schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats 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
21.0:1
49 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 19.1:1 · STATE 17.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
14%
143 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 | 344 | 33% |
| Grade 7 | 325 | 32% |
| Grade 8 | 360 | 35% |
Student demographics
62%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
88.1%
OH avg 59.8% . +2.0pp since 2021
Math
88.5%
OH avg 56.1% . +0.3pp since 2021
What this means: On the Ohio's State Tests, Ohio's statewide test, about 88 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 88 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 2 points since 2021, while math scores have held steady.
Ohio's State Tests results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 88.1% | 88.5% |
| 2023-24 | 87.2% | 86.7% |
| 2022-23 | 89.5% | 88.7% |
| 2021-22 | 86.0% | 88.1% |
% 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
86.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
83.5%
based on OH schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+3.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 87% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 84% 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 Shanahan Middle School
Olentangy Shanahan Middle School's state test result (86.8% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Olentangy Shanahan Middle School this school | 1,029 | 13.9% | 86.8% |
| Olentangy Berlin Middle School Delaware | 886 | 11.6% | 86.3% |
| Hyatts Middle School Powell | 835 | 9.9% | 85.3% |
| Orchard Middle School Solon | 730 | 18.5% | 95.3% |
| Solon Middle School Solon | 768 | 18.9% | 91.8% |
| Edwin H Greene Intermediate Middle School Cincinnati | 996 | 18.7% | 86.4% |
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 Shanahan Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Ohio | In Delaware County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 86.8% | #28 of 316 | #3 of 12 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 88.5% | #36 of 637 ▲ 13 | #3 of 12 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 88.1% | #28 of 637 ▼ 4 | #3 of 12 no change |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +1.2pp | #377 of 629 | #8 of 11 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,029 | #22 of 654 | #3 of 12 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 21.0:1 | #526 of 577 | #11 of 12 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 61.5% | #102 of 579 | #3 of 12 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 13.9% | #292 of 319 | #7 of 12 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -14.8% | #144 of 410 | #4 of 9 |
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
1,029
+31 (+3%) vs 2020
+126% since 1990-91, when it was 455
Student : Teacher
21.0:1
was 17.5:1
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 | 1,029 | 49.1 | 21.0:1 | 14% (143) |
| 2023-24 | 1,001 | 48.9 | 20.5:1 | 15% (148) |
| 2022-23 | 1,034 | 52.7 | 19.6:1 | 6% (67) |
| 2020-21 | 998 | 57 | 17.5:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 1,208 | 61.7 | 19.6:1 | 5% (59) |
| 2015-16 | 1,176 | 64 | 18.4:1 | 6% (76) |
| 2010-11 | 894 | 57 | 15.7:1 | 9% (78) |
| 2000-01 | 1,322 | 82 | 16.1:1 | 4% (56) |
| 1990-91 | 455 | 26 | 17.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Olentangy Shanahan Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 15% (1,208 to 1,029); teachers down 21% (61.7 to 49.1).
About Olentangy Shanahan Middle School
Federal records list Olentangy Shanahan Middle School as a middle-grades school in Lewis Center, Ohio. Federal data show 1,029 students enrolled in grades 6 through 8 in 2024-25. Across middle schools in Ohio, the average enrollment is about 482.
Olentangy Local is made up of 29 schools with 24,133 students in all.
More than half of enrollment at Olentangy Shanahan Middle School is White: 56%. The next largest groups are 25% Asian, 7% Black, 6% multiracial, and 5% Hispanic. The school's White share is 24 points below the 80% share among Delaware County residents. The diversity index for Olentangy Shanahan Middle School is 62%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Classroom staffing at Olentangy Shanahan Middle School totals 49.1 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 21.0:1. The average for middle schools in Ohio, 17.0:1, is lower. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at Olentangy Shanahan Middle School is about 14%.
Among Ohio public middle schools, Olentangy Shanahan Middle School outscored 90%, which works out to an A on the allk12 Grade.
Based on student poverty, the model expects 83.5% at Olentangy Shanahan Middle School; the school's average proficiency rate across its state test results is 86.8%.
The school is in Delaware County, where median household income comes to about $133,540, 59% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 3% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Delaware County counts 59 public schools with about 44,100 students.
Among nearby public schools, Olentangy Shanahan Preschool is closest at less than a tenth of a mile. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Olentangy Shanahan Middle School. By average proficiency, Olentangy Shanahan Middle School is 4th among 5 schools close by.
Olentangy Shanahan Middle School falls in the Suburb: Large locale category, used for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment was 1,029 in 2024-25. In 2020-21, it was 998. The student-to-teacher ratio increased from 17.5:1 in 2020-21 to 21.0:1 in 2024-25.
The Olentangy Shanahan Middle School discussion page is a place for special education services, counseling, and support programs. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.
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 Orange Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,056 students
- Olentangy Liberty Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,005 students
Other schools in Lewis Center
- Olentangy High SchoolHigh · 1,760 students
- Olentangy Orange Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,056 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
- Olentangy Shanahan Preschool0.1 mi · 188
- Heritage Elementary School0.2 mi · 592
- Olentangy High School0.5 mi · 1,760
- Shale Meadows Elementary School0.8 mi · 724
- Peachblow Crossing Elementary1.1 mi · 648
- Arrowhead Elementary School1.1 mi · 648
Frequently asked questions
About Olentangy Shanahan Middle SchoolHow large is Olentangy Shanahan Middle School?
Olentangy Shanahan Middle School enrolls approximately 1,029 students in grades 06-08.
Is Olentangy Shanahan Middle School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Olentangy Shanahan Middle School is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many students per teacher at Olentangy Shanahan Middle School?
Approximately 21.0:1 students per teacher at Olentangy Shanahan Middle School.
What is the student diversity at Olentangy Shanahan Middle School?
Student demographics at Olentangy Shanahan Middle School are roughly 56% White, 5% Hispanic, 7% Black, 25% Asian, 6% Two or more.
What district is Olentangy Shanahan Middle School in?
Olentangy Shanahan Middle School is part of Olentangy Local.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.