Park Street Intermediate School

Park Street Intermediate School, a medium-sized middle school in Grove City, Ohio, overseen by South-Western City, instructs 667 students, covering grades 5 through 6. That puts it 38% above the typical public school in Ohio, which averages around 482 students.

Within South-Western City, which oversees 33 schools and 21,873 students, Park Street Intermediate School is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Park Street Intermediate School logs that the largest single group is White, at 63% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school reports 13% Hispanic, 13% Black, 10% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Franklin County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.0:1 average. An estimated 61% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Franklin County (around 41%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Park Street Intermediate School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 65.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 62.5%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Franklin County) shows that median household earnings sit near $75,176, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Franklin County runs 402 public schools (combined enrollment of about 195,359 students), of which Park Street Intermediate School is one.

South-Western Preschool Center is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Park Street Intermediate School comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 66.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Five-year trend. Park Street Intermediate School's enrollment has decreased 8% since 2018, when it stood at 723 (now 667). White enrollment moved from 79% to 63% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 20.0:1 in 2018 to 18.3:1 in 2025.

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