Southeast Junior High School

Located at 8540 Tallmadge Rd, in Diamond, Ohio, Southeast Junior High School is a compact middle school that teaches 334 students (grades 6 through 8), part of Southeast Local. That puts it 31% smaller than the typical public school in Ohio, which averages around 482 students.

Within Southeast Local, which oversees 7 schools and 1,744 students, Southeast Junior High School is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Southeast Junior High School logs that 94% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school reports 2% Hispanic, 2% multiracial.

On the resource side, On paper, Southeast Junior High School has 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.0:1 average. An estimated 47% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Portage County (around 38%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Southeast Junior High School is in the bottom 10% of Ohio public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 70.9%; Southeast Junior High School posts 58.5%, -12.4 points below that line.

In the broader community, census data for Portage County shows the typical household earns roughly $75,766 per year, roughly 33% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Portage County's 48 public schools (combined enrollment of about 19,638 students), Southeast Junior High School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Southeast High School, around 0.5 miles off. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Southeast Junior High School comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 65.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 4%: 347 students in 2018 compared to 334 in 2025.

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