Wedgewood Middle School

Wedgewood Middle School is one of the reasonably sized middle schools in Columbus, Ohio, one of the schools within Columbus City Schools District, with 476 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8.

Columbus City Schools District comprises 115 schools with combined enrollment of 46,249 students; Wedgewood Middle School is among them.

In terms of who attends, Wedgewood Middle School records that the most-represented group is Hispanic (36%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 27% White, 26% Black, 6% multiracial, 5% Asian. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 8%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.2:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Franklin County) shows that median household income runs about $75,176, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Franklin County runs 402 public schools (combined enrollment of about 195,359 students), of which Wedgewood Middle School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Eakin Elementary School, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Wedgewood Middle School.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 7%: 512 students in 2018 compared to 476 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked up from 20% to 36%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 16.0:1 in 2018 to 13.2:1 in 2025.

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