Enrollment
334
Middle
DISTRICT 249 · STATE 482
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SOUTHEAST LOCAL·NCES 390492203536
Southeast Junior High School
8540 Tallmadge Rd, Diamond, OH 44412 · (330) 654-5841 · Portage County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE42-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL334 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
14.8:1
23 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.6:1 · STATE 17.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
47%
158 students
DISTRICT 50% · 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
Student demographics
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. 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
Southeast Junior High School→Southeast High School
Based on grade levels within Southeast Local. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
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Ohio's State Tests 2024-25 . % Proficient or AboveEnglish Language Arts
49.5%
OH avg 59.8% . -12.8pp since 2021
Math
59.1%
OH avg 56.1% . -12.1pp since 2021
What this means: On the Ohio's State Tests, Ohio's statewide test, about 50 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 59 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Ohio schools, those numbers are about 60 and 56. Reading and writing scores are down about 13 points since 2021, while math scores are down about 12 points.
Source: Ohio's State Tests. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of OH schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
58.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
70.9%
based on OH schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-12.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 59% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 71% typical for Ohio schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
334
-13 (-4%) vs 2017
Student : Teacher
14.8:1
was 15.5:1
% White
94%
was 95%
% Hispanic
2%
was 3%
% Black
1%
was 1%
% Asian
1%
was 0%
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
About 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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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 Southeast Local
- Southeast High SchoolHigh · 424 students
- Southeast Primary Elementary SchoolElementary · 328 students
- Southeast Intermediate Elementary SchoolElementary · 315 students
- Fredericksburg Elementary SchoolElementary · 127 students
- Mount Eaton Elementary SchoolElementary · 117 students
- Holmesville Elementary SchoolElementary · 99 students
Nearby schools
- Southeast High School0.5 mi · 424
- Southeast Intermediate Elementary School0.7 mi · 315
- Southeast Primary Elementary School0.7 mi · 328
- Waterloo Elementary School7.3 mi · 462
- Waterloo High School7.3 mi · 203
- Waterloo Middle School7.3 mi · 131
Frequently asked questions
About Southeast Junior High SchoolHow large is Southeast Junior High School?
Southeast Junior High School enrolls approximately 334 students in grades 06-08.
Is Southeast Junior High School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Southeast Junior High School is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many teachers does Southeast Junior High School have?
Southeast Junior High School employs 23 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.8:1.
What is the student diversity at Southeast Junior High School?
Student demographics at Southeast Junior High School are roughly 94% White, 2% Hispanic, 1% Black, 1% Asian, 2% Two or more.
What district is Southeast Junior High School in?
Southeast Junior High School is part of Southeast Local.
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