Pickerington Ridgeview Junior High School

Pickerington Ridgeview Junior High School is a 6-8 campus of roomy scale in Pickerington, Ohio, one of the schools within Pickerington Local, serveing 948 students in grades 7 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 482 students per school, that is 97% bigger than typical.

Within Pickerington Local, which oversees 16 schools and 11,729 students, Pickerington Ridgeview Junior High School is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Pickerington Ridgeview Junior High School logs that 41% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest breaks down as 34% White, 10% Asian, 8% multiracial, 6% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 9% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.0:1 average.

Zooming out to the county, Fairfield County reports that median household earnings sit near $90,966, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Pickerington Ridgeview Junior High School is one of 47 public schools in Fairfield County (combined enrollment of about 26,447 students).

Pickerington High School Central is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Pickerington Ridgeview Junior High School.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Pickerington Ridgeview Junior High School has edged up 5%, going from 903 students in 2018 to 948 in 2025. The White share of enrollment fell from 56% to 34% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 17.5:1 in 2018 to 18.6:1 today.

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