Sailorway Middle School

Sailorway Middle School is one of the reasonably sized junior highs in Vermilion, Ohio, run under Vermilion Local, with 511 students on its rolls from grades 4 through 7.

Across the 4 schools in Vermilion Local (1,613 students total), Sailorway Middle School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Sailorway Middle School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (89%). Beyond that, the school lists 6% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That is considerably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 81%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.0:1 average. About 46% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Sailorway Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 71.4%; this one delivers 70.2%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Erie County) logs that median household income runs about $71,993, about 29% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across Erie County's 29 public schools (combined enrollment of about 12,434 students), Sailorway Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Vermilion Elementary School, around 0.2 miles off. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Sailorway Middle School comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 71.2%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Sailorway Middle School's enrollment has shrank 12% since 2018, when it stood at 578 (now 511).

On the community side, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.