Utica Middle School

Located at 260 N Jefferson St, in Utica, Ohio, Utica Middle School is a small middle school that serves 349 students (grades 5 through 8), overseen by North Fork Local. Compared to the state average of about 482 students per school, that is 28% smaller than typical.

Within North Fork Local, which oversees 5 schools and 1,459 students, Utica Middle School is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Utica Middle School lists that 96% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest comes out to 3% multiracial. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 86%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.8:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.0:1, putting Utica Middle School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 93% of students at Utica Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Licking County runs at roughly 43%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Utica Middle School ranks in the top 10% of Ohio public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 53.9%; Utica Middle School posts 65.5%, +11.6 points above that line.

Around the school, Licking County reports that median household income runs about $84,426, roughly 29% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Utica Middle School is one of 63 public schools in Licking County (combined enrollment of about 29,815 students).

The closest other public school is Utica High School, roughly 0.0 miles away. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Utica Middle School comes 3rd of 5 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 66.5%.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count stayed largely flat: 344 students in 2018 compared to 349 in 2025.

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