Rootstown/Mabel Schnee Bldg Middle School

Rootstown/Mabel Schnee Bldg Middle School, a low-enrollment 6-8 campus in Rootstown, Ohio, part of Rootstown Local, teaches 229 students, covering grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Ohio's public schools average about 482 students each, so Rootstown/Mabel Schnee Bldg Middle School sits 52% below that benchmark.

Within Rootstown Local, which oversees 3 schools and 917 students, Rootstown/Mabel Schnee Bldg Middle School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Rootstown/Mabel Schnee Bldg Middle School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (90%). Beyond that, the school logs 3% Hispanic, 3% multiracial, 2% Black. Compared to Portage County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Rootstown/Mabel Schnee Bldg Middle School has 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.0:1 average. About 40% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, Rootstown/Mabel Schnee Bldg Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 73.6%, the actual is 66.3%, a residual of -7.3 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Portage County put median household earnings sit near $75,766, about 33% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Rootstown/Mabel Schnee Bldg Middle School is one of 48 public schools in Portage County (combined enrollment of about 19,638 students).

Rootstown Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 4 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Rootstown/Mabel Schnee Bldg Middle School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 66.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Over the past 7-year window. Rootstown/Mabel Schnee Bldg Middle School's enrollment has edged down 20% since 2018, when it stood at 286 (now 229). Class-load math has tightened: from 15.8:1 in 2018 to 14.3:1 in 2025.

On the community side, the feed for Rootstown/Mabel Schnee Bldg Middle School typically covers fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.