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Enrollment
448
Middle
DISTRICT 423 · STATE 482
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WILLOUGHBY-EASTLAKE CITY·NCES 390451005822
School of Innovation
32500 Chardon Rd, Willoughby, OH 44094 · (440) 946-5000 · Lake County
GRADES 03–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL448 STUDENTS
A+
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Scored higher than 96% of Ohio public middle schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- CThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Ohio public middle schools
Student : Teacher
17.2:1
26 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.6:1 · STATE 17.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
27%
119 students
DISTRICT 52% · STATE 43%
Community
1
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 3 | 75 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 75 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 74 | 17% |
| Grade 6 | 75 | 17% |
| Grade 7 | 75 | 17% |
| Grade 8 | 74 | 17% |
Student demographics
36%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 50% · 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
Test scores
Ohio's State Tests 2024-25 . % Proficient or AboveEnglish Language Arts
92.8%
OH avg 59.8% . -0.2pp since 2021
Math
90.1%
OH avg 56.1% . -0.1pp since 2021
What this means: On the Ohio's State Tests, Ohio's statewide test, about 93 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 90 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Ohio schools, those numbers are about 60 and 56. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2021, while math scores have held steady.
Ohio's State Tests results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 92.8% | 90.1% |
| 2023-24 | 91.6% | 90.5% |
| 2022-23 | 94.6% | 89.8% |
| 2021-22 | 92.9% | 90.3% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of OH schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
90.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
78.8%
based on OH schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+12.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 91% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 79% typical for Ohio schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 12 points, placing it in Ohio's top 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 School of Innovation
School of Innovation's state test result (90.7% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| School of Innovation this school | 448 | 26.6% | 90.7% |
| Johnstown Middle School Johnstown | 412 | 23.5% | 78.2% |
| Sylvania Mccord Junior High School Sylvania | 581 | 21.5% | 75.7% |
| Dover Intermediate School Westlake | 471 | 23.1% | 84.9% |
| Lewis F Mayer Middle School Fairview Park | 314 | 25.5% | 76.0% |
| Tower Heights Middle School Centerville | 571 | 20.0% | 77.8% |
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 School of Innovation ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Ohio | In Lake County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 90.7% | #10 of 316 | #1 of 10 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 90.1% | #23 of 637 ▼ 3 | #1 of 11 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 92.8% | #6 of 637 ▼ 1 | #1 of 11 no change |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -0.1pp | #184 of 629 | #4 of 11 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 448 | #316 of 654 | #7 of 11 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.2:1 | #331 of 577 | #7 of 11 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 35.8% | #238 of 579 | #6 of 11 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 26.6% | #232 of 319 | #9 of 10 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +19.5% | #46 of 169 | N/A |
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
448
+8 (+2%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
17.2:1
was 16.9:1
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 | 448 | 26 | 17.2:1 | 27% (119) |
| 2023-24 | 446 | 27 | 16.5:1 | 24% (105) |
| 2022-23 | 434 | 27 | 16.1:1 | 19% (81) |
| 2020-21 | 440 | 26 | 16.9:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 375 | 20 | 18.8:1 | 17% (63) |
| 2015-16 | 225 | 13 | 17.3:1 | 0% (0) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for School of Innovation.
Since 2017-18: students up 19% (375 to 448); teachers up 30% (20 to 26).
About School of Innovation
Among the schools in Willoughby, Ohio, is School of Innovation, a mid-sized middle-grades school. It has an enrollment of 448 students in grades 3 through 8.
The district, Willoughby-Eastlake City, operates 13 schools serving 6,861 students.
More than half of the students at School of Innovation are White (79%). The remaining shares are 10% multiracial, 4% Asian, 4% Black, and 3% Hispanic. The diversity index for School of Innovation is 36%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Its staff includes 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, for about 17.2 students per teacher. The 17.0:1 average for middle schools in Ohio is close to this figure. Roughly 27% of students at School of Innovation can receive free or reduced-price lunch. The 39% average for public schools in Lake County is 12 points higher.
School of Innovation earns an A+ on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 96% of Ohio public middle schools.
School of Innovation is a top-10% school in Ohio on BeatsExpectations, beating its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results of 78.8% with an actual 90.7%.
In the surrounding county, Lake County, median household income comes to about $80,925, about 32% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 5%. The county's public schools total 65, with about 27,899 students.
Wickliffe Upper School, about 1.4 miles away, is the closest public school. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. On state test proficiency, School of Innovation ranks 1st in a group of 7 nearby schools.
Its NCES locale code is Suburb: Large: the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Over 4 years, enrollment stayed close to where it was, going from 440 to 448.
This page is a place to ask questions and share updates about fundraisers, report cards, and school supplies at School of Innovation. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Lake County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
232,216
Census ACS
Median income
$80,925
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
32%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
65
27,899 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Willoughby-Eastlake City
- North High SchoolHigh · 1,231 students
- South High SchoolHigh · 995 students
- Royalview Elementary SchoolElementary · 689 students
- Edison Elementary SchoolElementary · 543 students
- Grant Elementary SchoolElementary · 518 students
- Willoughby Middle SchoolMiddle · 509 students
Other schools in Willoughby
- South High SchoolHigh · 995 students
- Edison Elementary SchoolElementary · 543 students
- Grant Elementary SchoolElementary · 518 students
- Willoughby Middle SchoolMiddle · 509 students
- Northern Career InstituteHigh · 148 students
Nearby schools
- Wickliffe Upper School1.4 mi · 586
- Wickliffe Lower School1.4 mi · 642
- Edison Elementary School2.6 mi · 543
- Bluestone Elementary School2.8 mi · 274
- Mayfield Center Elementary School2.9 mi · 468
- Northern Career Institute3.0 mi · 148
Frequently asked questions
About School of InnovationHow large is School of Innovation?
School of Innovation enrolls approximately 448 students in grades 03-08.
What age range does School of Innovation serve?
School of Innovation serves students from grade 03 through grade 08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at School of Innovation?
The student-to-teacher ratio at School of Innovation is approximately 17.2:1 (26 FTE teachers).
How diverse is School of Innovation?
School of Innovation reports a student body of 79% White, 3% Hispanic, 4% Black, 4% Asian, 10% Two or more.
Is School of Innovation public or private?
School of Innovation is a public K-12 school, overseen by Willoughby-Eastlake City.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.