Ridgeview Middle School

Located at 4241 Rudy Rd, in Columbus, Ohio, Ridgeview Middle School is a reasonably sized junior high that enrolls 485 students (grades 6 through 8), part of Columbus City Schools District.

Columbus City Schools District comprises 115 schools with combined enrollment of 46,249 students; Ridgeview Middle School is among them.

Looking at the student body, Ridgeview Middle School logs that the most-represented group is White (35%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school reports 28% Black, 19% Hispanic, 11% Asian, 7% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 59% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.7:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.0:1, putting Ridgeview Middle School tighter than the state norm the norm.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Franklin County) reports 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%. Across Franklin County's 402 public schools (combined enrollment of about 195,359 students), Ridgeview Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Whetstone High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Ridgeview Middle School.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area.

Over the past 7-year window. Ridgeview Middle School's enrollment has declined 15% since 2018, when it stood at 573 (now 485). White enrollment moved from 43% to 35% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 17.9:1 in 2018 to 14.7:1 today.

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