Weisenborn Junior High

Set in Huber Heights, Ohio, Weisenborn Junior High is a roomy middle-grades school, run under Huber Heights City. It instructs 845 students across grades 7 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 75% bigger than the state mean of about 482.

Huber Heights City runs 9 schools in total, collectively educating 5,815 students. Weisenborn Junior High is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Weisenborn Junior High logs that 51% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest looks like 27% Black, 11% multiracial, 9% Hispanic, 2% Asian. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 68%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.4:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.0:1, putting Weisenborn Junior High higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 54% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Montgomery County (around 42%), the school's rate is north of typical.

With demographic context factored in, Weisenborn Junior High falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 68.3%; this one comes in at 44.8%, -23.5 points off the demographic line.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Montgomery County put median household income runs about $66,139, about 31% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Montgomery County runs 160 public schools (combined enrollment of about 74,487 students), of which Weisenborn Junior High is one.

Nearest neighbor: Wayne High School, around 0.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Weisenborn Junior High comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 51.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Looking at the recent track record. Weisenborn Junior High's enrollment has stayed largely flat since 2018, when it stood at 854 (now 845). Over the same period, the White share decreased from 59% to 51%.

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