St Clairsville Middle School

St Clairsville Middle School, a middle-of-the-pack middle-grades school in Saint Clairsville, Ohio, run under St Clairsville-Richland City, enrolls 497 students, covering grades 5 through 8.

Across the 3 schools in St Clairsville-Richland City (1,619 students total), St Clairsville Middle School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, St Clairsville Middle School records that 87% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder consists of 6% multiracial, 5% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.8:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.0:1, putting St Clairsville Middle School higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 56% of students at St Clairsville Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Belmont County runs at roughly 65%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, St Clairsville Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 67.5%; this one delivers 75.1%.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Belmont County put the typical household earns roughly $57,017 per year, roughly 19% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Belmont County's 23 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,619 students), St Clairsville Middle School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is St Clairsville High School, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around St Clairsville Middle School. On composite proficiency, St Clairsville Middle School comes 3rd of 4 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 77.1%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 9%: 547 students in 2018 compared to 497 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 21.1:1 in 2018 to 17.8:1 today.

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