Richmond Heights Middle School

Richmond Heights Middle School, a micro-enrollment junior high in Richmond Heights, Ohio, operated by Richmond Heights Local, teaches 137 students, covering grades 7 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 482 students per school, that is 72% below typical.

Across the 3 schools in Richmond Heights Local (786 students total), Richmond Heights Middle School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Richmond Heights Middle School lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (91%). Other groups include 4% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 2% White. The wider county runs roughly 29% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 5 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 26.9:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.0:1 average. Roughly 74% of students at Richmond Heights Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Cuyahoga County runs at roughly 27%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Richmond Heights Middle School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 61.0%; actual is 31.2%, a gap of -29.7 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Cuyahoga County indicate the typical household earns roughly $64,468 per year, roughly 37% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Richmond Heights Middle School is one of 352 public schools in Cuyahoga County (combined enrollment of about 155,924 students).

Nearest neighbor: Richmond Heights High School, around 0.0 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Richmond Heights Middle School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 62.1%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 7%: 128 students in 2018 compared to 137 in 2025. Class-load math has rose: from 18.3:1 in 2018 to 26.9:1 in 2025.

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