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What's one thing Waggoner Road Junior High gets right about preparing students for what comes next?
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Enrollment
924
Middle
DISTRICT 853 · STATE 482
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·REYNOLDSBURG CITY·NCES 390470005388
Waggoner Road Junior High
360 Waggoner Rd, Reynoldsburg, OH 43068 · (614) 501-5700 · Franklin County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL924 STUDENTS
F
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Scored higher than 3% of Ohio public middle schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- FThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Ohio public middle schools
Student : Teacher
16.9:1
55 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.4:1 · STATE 17.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
67%
622 students
DISTRICT 66% · STATE 43%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 306 | 33% |
| Grade 7 | 288 | 31% |
| Grade 8 | 330 | 36% |
Student demographics
75%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 74% · STATE 54% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). 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
Waggoner Road Junior High→Reynoldsburg High School
Based on grade levels within Reynoldsburg City. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
Ohio's State Tests 2024-25 . % Proficient or AboveEnglish Language Arts
49.0%
OH avg 59.8% . -1.1pp since 2021
Math
39.1%
OH avg 56.1% . -8.2pp since 2021
What this means: On the Ohio's State Tests, Ohio's statewide test, about 49 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 39 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 1 points since 2021, while math scores are down about 8 points.
Ohio's State Tests results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 49.0% | 39.1% |
| 2023-24 | 48.6% | 44.5% |
| 2022-23 | 53.9% | 46.4% |
| 2021-22 | 50.1% | 47.3% |
% Proficient or Above, all students and all tested grades.
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
47.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
63.4%
based on OH schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-15.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 47% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 63% 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 →
Schools most like Waggoner Road Junior High
Waggoner Road Junior High's state test result (47.5% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Waggoner Road Junior High this school | 924 | 67.3% | 47.5% |
| Licking Heights Middle School Pataskala | 820 | 57.3% | 55.9% |
| Baldwin Road Junior High School Reynoldsburg | 781 | 71.2% | 43.5% |
| Summit Station Intermediate Pataskala | 836 | 64.1% | 70.8% |
| Crossroads Middle School Fairfield | 1,111 | 54.4% | 61.3% |
| Minerva Park Middle School Columbus | 753 | 60.7% | 59.6% |
Matched among Ohio middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Waggoner Road Junior High ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Ohio | In Franklin County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 47.5% | #308 of 316 | #28 of 33 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 39.1% | #569 of 637 ▼ 29 | #50 of 64 ▼ 9 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 49.0% | #514 of 637 ▼ 12 | #37 of 64 ▼ 2 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -4.7pp | #52 of 629 | #5 of 63 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 924 | #39 of 654 | #2 of 66 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.9:1 | #314 of 577 | #40 of 59 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 74.5% | #2 of 579 | #2 of 59 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 67.3% | #28 of 319 | #8 of 33 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +63.0% | #8 of 169 | #2 of 26 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
924
+365 (+65%) vs 2020
+54% since 2010-11, when it was 599
Student : Teacher
16.9:1
was 20.0:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 924 | 54.7 | 16.9:1 | 67% (622) |
| 2023-24 | 884 | 50.7 | 17.4:1 | 67% (595) |
| 2022-23 | 554 | 29.6 | 18.7:1 | 58% (320) |
| 2020-21 | 559 | 28 | 20.0:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 567 | 22.2 | 25.6:1 | 44% (248) |
| 2015-16 | 559 | 22 | 25.4:1 | 44% (244) |
| 2010-11 | 599 | 28 | 21.4:1 | 37% (224) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Waggoner Road Junior High.
Since 2017-18: students up 63% (567 to 924); teachers up 146% (22.2 to 54.7).
About Waggoner Road Junior High
Waggoner Road Junior High is a public high-enrollment middle-grades school in Reynoldsburg, Ohio. Grades offered run from 6 through 8, with 924 students enrolled. For comparison, middle schools in Ohio average about 482 students.
Across its 10 schools, Reynoldsburg City enrolls 7,130 students. Waggoner Road Junior High is one of those schools.
Black students are the largest group at Waggoner Road Junior High, with 38% of enrollment. Beyond that, enrollment is 23% Asian, 20% White, 11% Hispanic, and 8% multiracial. The Black share of the county population is lower, at 23%. By the diversity index, Waggoner Road Junior High comes in at 75%.
A ratio of 16.9:1 comes from the school's 54.7 full-time-equivalent teachers. Middle schools in Ohio have a similar average ratio of 17.0:1. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility was 67% in 2024-25. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Franklin County is 41%.
Measured against Ohio public middle schools, Waggoner Road Junior High receives an F. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
Waggoner Road Junior High posts an average proficiency rate on state tests of 47.5%. Schools with its free or reduced-price lunch share in Ohio are predicted to post 63.4%, so the school is 15.9 points behind and in the state's bottom 10%.
Federal survey data for Franklin County show that median household income is about $75,176, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Waggoner Road Junior High is among the 402 public schools in Franklin County.
Waggoner Road Elementary is the public school closest to Waggoner Road Junior High, about 0.1 miles away. Waggoner Road Junior High has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Nearby schools average 58.4% on proficiency, and Waggoner Road Junior High is below that at 47.5%.
Waggoner Road Junior High is coded as Suburb: Large in federal locale data.
Waggoner Road Junior High had 559 students in 2020-21 and 924 in 2024-25, according to federal records. Those counts may cover different grade spans. The ratio of students to teachers went from 20.0:1 to 16.9:1 over the same years.
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Franklin County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,333,048
Census ACS
Median income
$75,176
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
42%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
402
195,359 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Reynoldsburg City
- Reynoldsburg High SchoolHigh · 2,115 students
- Baldwin Road Junior High SchoolMiddle · 781 students
- Waggoner Road ElementaryElementary · 691 students
- Slate Ridge Elementary SchoolElementary · 582 students
- Herbert Mills Elementary SchoolElementary · 431 students
- Taylor Road Elementary SchoolElementary · 419 students
Other schools in Reynoldsburg
- Reynoldsburg High SchoolHigh · 2,115 students
- Baldwin Road Junior High SchoolMiddle · 781 students
- Waggoner Road ElementaryElementary · 691 students
- Tussing Elementary SchoolElementary · 647 students
- Slate Ridge Elementary SchoolElementary · 582 students
- Herbert Mills Elementary SchoolElementary · 431 students
Nearby schools
- Waggoner Road Elementary0.1 mi · 691
- Taylor Road Elementary School0.8 mi · 419
- French Run Elementary School1.5 mi · 389
- Rose Hill Elementary School1.9 mi · 393
- Summit Road Elementary1.9 mi · 405
- Broad Peak Elementary2.0 mi · 550
Frequently asked questions
About Waggoner Road Junior HighHow large is Waggoner Road Junior High?
Waggoner Road Junior High enrolls approximately 924 students in grades 06-08.
Is Waggoner Road Junior High an elementary, middle, or high school?
Waggoner Road Junior High is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many students per teacher at Waggoner Road Junior High?
Approximately 16.9:1 students per teacher at Waggoner Road Junior High.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Waggoner Road Junior High?
At Waggoner Road Junior High, the student body is approximately 20% White, 11% Hispanic, 38% Black, 23% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Is Waggoner Road Junior High public or private?
Waggoner Road Junior High is a public K-12 school, overseen by Reynoldsburg City.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.