Enrollment
229
Middle
DISTRICT 306 · STATE 482
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ROOTSTOWN LOCAL·NCES 390492103533
Rootstown/Mabel Schnee Bldg Middle School
4140 State Route 44, Rootstown, OH 44272 · (330) 325-9956 · Portage County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL229 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
14.3:1
16 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.8:1 · STATE 17.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
40%
92 students
DISTRICT 39% · STATE 43%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 83 | 36% |
| Grade 7 | 72 | 31% |
| Grade 8 | 74 | 32% |
Student demographics
19%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 17% · STATE 54% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Rootstown/Mabel Schnee Bldg Middle School→Rootstown/Ward Davis Bldg High School
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Ohio's State Tests 2024-25 . % Proficient or AboveEnglish Language Arts
61.2%
OH avg 59.8% . +1.2pp since 2021
Math
63.9%
OH avg 56.1% . +5.0pp since 2021
What this means: On the Ohio's State Tests, Ohio's statewide test, about 61 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 64 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Ohio schools, those numbers are about 60 and 56. Reading and writing scores are up about 1 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 5 points.
Ohio's State Tests results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 61.2% | 63.9% |
| 2023-24 | 61.6% | 65.8% |
| 2022-23 | 68.2% | 64.0% |
| 2021-22 | 60.0% | 58.9% |
% Proficient or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Ohio's State Tests. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
66.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
73.6%
based on OH schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-7.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 66% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 74% typical for Ohio schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Ohio's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Rootstown/Mabel Schnee Bldg Middle School
Rootstown/Mabel Schnee Bldg Middle School's state test result (66.3% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rootstown/Mabel Schnee Bldg Middle School this school | 229 | 40.2% | 66.3% |
| Greenon Jr. High School Enon | 227 | 41.4% | 58.2% |
| Carlisle Junior High School Carlisle | 242 | 36.8% | 68.8% |
| Budd Elementary School Loudonville | 206 | 42.2% | 76.6% |
| South Side Middle School Columbiana | 289 | 40.8% | 82.6% |
| McCormick Middle School Huron | 267 | 33.7% | 78.1% |
Matched among Ohio middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Rootstown/Mabel Schnee Bldg Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Ohio | In Portage County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 66.3% | #224 of 316 | #5 of 8 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 63.9% | #367 of 637 ▼ 29 | #7 of 12 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 61.2% | #379 of 637 ▼ 47 | #7 of 12 ▼ 3 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +3.1pp | #286 of 629 | #8 of 12 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 229 | #562 of 654 | #9 of 12 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.3:1 | #130 of 577 | #3 of 9 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 18.8% | #419 of 579 | #8 of 9 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 40.2% | #163 of 319 | #7 of 8 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -19.9% | #77 of 410 | #5 of 8 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
229
-6 (-3%) vs 2020
-28% since 1990-91, when it was 317
Student : Teacher
14.3:1
was 13.1:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 229 | 16 | 14.3:1 | 40% (92) |
| 2023-24 | 210 | 16 | 13.1:1 | 37% (78) |
| 2022-23 | 219 | 16 | 13.7:1 | 32% (71) |
| 2020-21 | 235 | 18 | 13.1:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 286 | 18.1 | 15.8:1 | 27% (76) |
| 2015-16 | 310 | 19 | 16.3:1 | 26% (82) |
| 2010-11 | 298 | 14 | 21.3:1 | 34% (100) |
| 2000-01 | 302 | 21 | 14.4:1 | 12% (35) |
| 1990-91 | 317 | 21 | 15.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Rootstown/Mabel Schnee Bldg Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 20% (286 to 229); teachers down 12% (18.1 to 16).
About Rootstown/Mabel Schnee Bldg Middle School
Rootstown/Mabel Schnee Bldg Middle School is a middle school in Rootstown, Ohio, reachable at (330) 325-9956. Students in grades 6 through 8 attend the school, which enrolls 229 students. For comparison, middle schools in Ohio average about 482 students.
Besides Rootstown/Mabel Schnee Bldg Middle School, Rootstown Local runs 2 other schools. The district enrolls 917 students.
White students are the large majority at Rootstown/Mabel Schnee Bldg Middle School, with 90% of enrollment. The next largest groups are 3% Hispanic, 3% multiracial, and 2% Black. The White share in Portage County as a whole is similar, at about 87%. The chance that two students picked at random at Rootstown/Mabel Schnee Bldg Middle School belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 19%.
Rootstown/Mabel Schnee Bldg Middle School operates with 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, a ratio of about 14.3:1. For comparison, middle schools in Ohio average 17.0:1. About 40% of students at the school meet free or reduced-price lunch income limits. That is close to the 38% average for public schools in Portage County.
Compared with Ohio schools that have similar shares of low-income students, Rootstown/Mabel Schnee Bldg Middle School's results are 7.3 points below predicted: 66.3% against 73.6%.
Recent Census Bureau figures for Portage County show that median household income is about $75,766, 33% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 7% of people live in poverty. Federal data list 48 public schools in Portage County, with a combined enrollment of about 19,638.
The school nearest to Rootstown/Mabel Schnee Bldg Middle School is Rootstown Elementary School, at a distance of less than a tenth of a mile. Within five miles of Rootstown/Mabel Schnee Bldg Middle School, there are at least 8 other public schools. Compared with its nearest neighbors, Rootstown/Mabel Schnee Bldg Middle School ranks 3rd of 4 on average proficiency.
Rootstown/Mabel Schnee Bldg Middle School is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more, a location NCES labels Suburb: Large.
Rootstown/Mabel Schnee Bldg Middle School saw enrollment fall 3% between 2020-21 and 2024-25. The ratio was 13.1:1 in 2020-21 and 14.3:1 in 2024-25.
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Portage County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
161,956
Census ACS
Median income
$75,766
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
33%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
48
19,638 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Rootstown Local
- Rootstown Elementary SchoolElementary · 406 students
- Rootstown/Ward Davis Bldg High SchoolHigh · 282 students
Other schools in Rootstown
- Bio-Med Science Academy STEM SchoolCombined · 935 students
- Rootstown Elementary SchoolElementary · 406 students
- Rootstown/Ward Davis Bldg High SchoolHigh · 282 students
Nearby schools
- Rootstown Elementary School0.1 mi · 406
- Rootstown/Ward Davis Bldg High School0.1 mi · 282
- Bio-Med Science Academy STEM School0.2 mi · 935
- Willyard Elementary School2.7 mi · 295
- West Main Elementary School3.9 mi · 297
- Brown Middle School4.0 mi · 508
Frequently asked questions
About Rootstown/Mabel Schnee Bldg Middle SchoolHow many students attend Rootstown/Mabel Schnee Bldg Middle School?
Rootstown/Mabel Schnee Bldg Middle School enrolls approximately 229 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does Rootstown/Mabel Schnee Bldg Middle School serve?
Rootstown/Mabel Schnee Bldg Middle School serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Rootstown/Mabel Schnee Bldg Middle School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Rootstown/Mabel Schnee Bldg Middle School is approximately 14.3:1 (16 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Rootstown/Mabel Schnee Bldg Middle School?
Rootstown/Mabel Schnee Bldg Middle School reports a student body of 90% White, 3% Hispanic, 2% Black, 1% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Who oversees Rootstown/Mabel Schnee Bldg Middle School?
Rootstown/Mabel Schnee Bldg Middle School is overseen by Rootstown Local in Portage County.
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