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Parents: what's one thing you'd want the Orchard Middle School administration to hear?
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Enrollment
730
Middle
DISTRICT 749 · STATE 482
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SOLON CITY·NCES 390466002607
Orchard Middle School
6800 Som Center Rd, Solon, OH 44139 · (440) 349-6215 · Cuyahoga County
GRADES 05–06MIDDLE21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL730 STUDENTS
A+
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Scored higher than 99% 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.
- 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.
- BThree-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
18.2:1
40 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 18.0:1 · STATE 17.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
18%
135 students
DISTRICT 18% · 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 5 | 371 | 51% |
| Grade 6 | 359 | 49% |
Student demographics
67%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 67% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Orchard Middle School→Solon Middle School
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Solon City. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
Ohio's State Tests 2024-25 . % Proficient or AboveEnglish Language Arts
93.8%
OH avg 59.8% . +2.5pp since 2021
Math
95.7%
OH avg 56.1% . +4.2pp since 2021
What this means: On the Ohio's State Tests, Ohio's statewide test, about 94 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 96 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 3 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 4 points.
Ohio's State Tests results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 93.8% | 95.7% |
| 2023-24 | 93.8% | 96.6% |
| 2022-23 | 94.0% | 95.4% |
| 2021-22 | 91.3% | 91.5% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of OH schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
95.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
81.8%
based on OH schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+13.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 95% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 82% typical for Ohio schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 13 points, placing it in Ohio's top 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 Orchard Middle School
Orchard Middle School's state test result (95.3% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Orchard Middle School this school | 730 | 18.5% | 95.3% |
| Solon Middle School Solon | 768 | 18.9% | 91.8% |
| Olentangy Shanahan Middle School Lewis Center | 1,029 | 13.9% | 86.8% |
| Olentangy Berlin Middle School Delaware | 886 | 11.6% | 86.3% |
| Olentangy Orange Middle School Lewis Center | 1,056 | 23.0% | 80.2% |
| 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 Orchard Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Ohio | In Cuyahoga County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 95.3% | #2 of 316 | #2 of 21 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 95.7% | #3 of 637 ▼ 1 | #2 of 41 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 93.8% | #3 of 637 ▼ 1 | #3 of 41 ▼ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +3.4pp | #270 of 629 | #17 of 39 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 730 | #108 of 654 | #13 of 44 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.2:1 | #396 of 577 | #32 of 36 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 67.2% | #58 of 579 | #4 of 36 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 18.5% | #274 of 319 | #15 of 22 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +14.1% | #62 of 169 | #6 of 12 |
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
730
+28 (+4%) vs 2020
-8% since 1990-91, when it was 796
Student : Teacher
18.2:1
was 17.1:1
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 | 730 | 40.1 | 18.2:1 | 18% (135) |
| 2023-24 | 699 | 39.6 | 17.7:1 | 18% (123) |
| 2022-23 | 736 | 42.1 | 17.5:1 | 13% (97) |
| 2020-21 | 702 | 41 | 17.1:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 640 | 37.3 | 17.2:1 | 12% (79) |
| 2015-16 | 714 | 39 | 18.3:1 | 10% (70) |
| 2010-11 | 777 | 43 | 18.1:1 | 11% (83) |
| 2000-01 | 801 | 52 | 15.4:1 | 2% (14) |
| 1990-91 | 796 | 49 | 16.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Orchard Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students up 14% (640 to 730); teachers up 7% (37.3 to 40.1).
About Orchard Middle School
Orchard Middle School is a large middle-grades school in Solon, Ohio, administered by Solon City. The school counts 730 students across grades 5 through 6. The typical figure for middle schools in Ohio is about 482 students.
Solon City is made up of 7 schools with 4,594 students in all.
The most common group at Orchard Middle School is White students, at 49%. It is also 23% Asian, 15% Black, 7% multiracial, and 5% Hispanic. Cuyahoga County's residents are about 58% White, 8 points above the school's share. Pick two students at random and there is a 67% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
At Orchard Middle School, 40.1 full-time-equivalent teachers work with students, a ratio of about 18.2:1. On average, middle schools in Ohio have 17.0:1, compared with 18.2:1 here. Students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch make up 18% of enrollment. That is lower than the 27% average for public schools in Cuyahoga County.
allk12 grades Orchard Middle School an A+. The grade compares the school only with Ohio public middle schools, because each state gives its own test.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, Orchard Middle School is in the top 10% of Ohio schools: 95.3% actual against 81.8% predicted.
Recent Census Bureau figures for Cuyahoga County show that the median household income is $64,468, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 37%, and roughly 12% of residents are in poverty. Besides Orchard Middle School, Cuyahoga County has 351 other public schools.
The closest public school, Grace L Roxbury Elementary School, is about 0.1 miles from Orchard Middle School. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. On state test proficiency, Orchard Middle School ranks 4th in a group of 7 nearby schools.
The school's federal locale classification is Suburb: Large.
Federal data show a 4% enrollment rise, from 702 in 2020-21 to 730 in 2024-25. Students per teacher rose from 17.1 in 2020-21 to 18.2 in 2024-25.
The discussion area below is open to posts about sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week. Reviews and ratings from people who know the school are welcome.
Cuyahoga County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,245,873
Census ACS
Median income
$64,468
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
37%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
12%
Below federal line
Schools in county
352
155,924 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Solon City
- Solon High SchoolHigh · 1,519 students
- Solon Middle SchoolMiddle · 768 students
- Dorothy E Lewis Elementary SchoolElementary · 512 students
- Parkside Elementary SchoolElementary · 502 students
- Grace L Roxbury Elementary SchoolElementary · 487 students
- Joseph V. Regano Early Learning CenterElementary · 76 students
Other schools in Solon
- Solon High SchoolHigh · 1,519 students
- Solon Middle SchoolMiddle · 768 students
- Dorothy E Lewis Elementary SchoolElementary · 512 students
- Parkside Elementary SchoolElementary · 502 students
- Grace L Roxbury Elementary SchoolElementary · 487 students
- Joseph V. Regano Early Learning CenterElementary · 76 students
Other Orchard Middle schools
One other US public school is named Orchard Middle. Orchard Middle School is the largest of the 2.
- Orchard Middle SchoolWENATCHEE, WA · 395 students
Nearby schools
- Grace L Roxbury Elementary School0.1 mi · 487
- Parkside Elementary School0.3 mi · 502
- Solon High School0.3 mi · 1,519
- Solon Middle School0.3 mi · 768
- Joseph V. Regano Early Learning Center0.5 mi · 76
- Solon Academy1.0 mi · 76
Frequently asked questions
About Orchard Middle SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Orchard Middle School?
Orchard Middle School enrolls approximately 730 students in grades 05-06.
What age range does Orchard Middle School serve?
Orchard Middle School serves students from grade 05 through grade 06.
How many students per teacher at Orchard Middle School?
Approximately 18.2:1 students per teacher at Orchard Middle School.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Orchard Middle School?
At Orchard Middle School, the student body is approximately 49% White, 5% Hispanic, 15% Black, 23% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Is Orchard Middle School public or private?
Orchard Middle School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Solon City.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.