Waggoner Road Junior High

As an expansive middle-grades school in Reynoldsburg, Ohio, Waggoner Road Junior High serves 924 students from grades 6 through 8, part of Reynoldsburg City. Enrollment runs roughly 92% above the state mean of about 482.

Across the 10 schools in Reynoldsburg City (7,130 students total), Waggoner Road Junior High accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Waggoner Road Junior High reports that 38% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest breaks down as 23% Asian, 20% White, 11% Hispanic, 8% multiracial. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 23%.

On the resource side, The school employs 55 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.9:1. The state averages about 17.0:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 67% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Franklin County runs at roughly 41%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Waggoner Road Junior High sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 63.4%; actual is 47.5%, a gap of -15.9 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Franklin County indicate median household earnings sit near $75,176, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across Franklin County's 402 public schools (combined enrollment of about 195,359 students), Waggoner Road Junior High is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Waggoner Road Elementary, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Waggoner Road Junior High comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 58.4%.

Waggoner Road Junior High operates from an outer-ring location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Waggoner Road Junior High has ticked up 63%, going from 567 students in 2018 to 924 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 45% to 20% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 25.6:1 in 2018 to 16.9:1 today.

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