Perry Middle School

As a mid-sized middle-grades school in Worthington, Ohio, Perry Middle School teaches 528 students from grades 6 through 8, overseen by Worthington City.

Across the 19 schools in Worthington City (10,874 students total), Perry Middle School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Perry Middle School lists that the most-represented group is White (52%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder comes out to 20% Hispanic, 12% Black, 11% multiracial, 5% Asian.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.1:1. The state averages around 17.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 45% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Perry Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 71.9%, the actual is 66.3%, a residual of -5.6 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Franklin County put the typical household earns roughly $75,176 per year, 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 Perry Middle School is one.

Phoenix Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Perry Middle School comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 75.8%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

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