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Enrollment
683
Middle
DISTRICT 802 · STATE 482
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·DUBLIN CITY·NCES 390470200475
Willard Grizzell Middle School
8705 Avery Rd, Dublin, OH 43017 · (614) 798-3569 · Delaware County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL683 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 92% of Ohio public middle schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- B+Three-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
16.3:1
42 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.6:1 · STATE 17.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
5%
36 students
DISTRICT 23% · 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 | 216 | 32% |
| Grade 7 | 221 | 32% |
| Grade 8 | 246 | 36% |
Student demographics
41%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 62% · 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
Test scores
Ohio's State Tests 2024-25 . % Proficient or AboveEnglish Language Arts
89.2%
OH avg 59.8% . +4.8pp since 2021
Math
90.8%
OH avg 56.1% . +4.5pp since 2021
What this means: On the Ohio's State Tests, Ohio's statewide test, about 89 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 91 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Ohio schools, those numbers are about 60 and 56. Reading and writing scores are up about 5 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 5 points.
Ohio's State Tests results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 89.2% | 90.8% |
| 2023-24 | 87.4% | 91.5% |
| 2022-23 | 88.3% | 89.4% |
| 2021-22 | 84.4% | 86.3% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
88.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
86.8%
based on OH schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+1.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 89% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 87% typical for Ohio schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Ohio's top nor bottom 10%.
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 Willard Grizzell Middle School
Willard Grizzell Middle School's state test result (88.7% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Willard Grizzell Middle School this school | 683 | 5.3% | 88.7% |
| Harmon Middle School Aurora | 689 | 8.6% | 87.6% |
| Olentangy Liberty Middle School Powell | 1,005 | 6.4% | 90.5% |
| Berkshire Middle School Galena | 883 | 11.0% | 86.2% |
| Revere Middle School Akron | 593 | 11.5% | 83.8% |
| Hastings Middle School Upper Arlington | 753 | 7.3% | 83.7% |
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 Willard Grizzell Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Ohio | In Delaware County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 88.7% | #17 of 316 | #2 of 12 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 90.8% | #18 of 637 ▼ 3 | #2 of 12 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 89.2% | #19 of 637 ▲ 2 | #1 of 12 ▲ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +4.6pp | #209 of 629 | #5 of 11 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 683 | #134 of 654 | #10 of 12 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.3:1 | #272 of 577 | #3 of 12 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 40.8% | #209 of 579 | #9 of 12 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 5.3% | #318 of 319 | #12 of 12 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -21.6% | #63 of 410 | #2 of 9 |
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
683
-291 (-30%) vs 2020
-8% since 2000-01, when it was 742
Student : Teacher
16.3:1
was 21.6:1
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 | 683 | 42 | 16.3:1 | 5% (36) |
| 2023-24 | 673 | 44 | 15.3:1 | 4% (28) |
| 2022-23 | 691 | 43 | 16.1:1 | 1% (9) |
| 2020-21 | 974 | 45 | 21.6:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 871 | 22.5 | 38.7:1 | 1% (13) |
| 2015-16 | 838 | 41 | 20.4:1 | 2% (13) |
| 2010-11 | 714 | 44 | 16.2:1 | 2% (13) |
| 2000-01 | 742 | 55 | 13.5:1 | 0% (2) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Willard Grizzell Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 22% (871 to 683); teachers up 87% (22.5 to 42).
About Willard Grizzell Middle School
Willard Grizzell Middle School is a mid-sized middle-grades school in Dublin, Ohio. Total enrollment is 683 students, and the grades served are 6 through 8. By comparison, middle schools in Ohio enroll about 482 students on average.
Willard Grizzell Middle School is a school in Dublin City. The district has 23 schools and 16,967 students.
More than half of the students at Willard Grizzell Middle School are White (75%). The remaining shares are 14% Asian, 7% multiracial, and 2% Hispanic. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Willard Grizzell Middle School scores 41%.
There are about 16.3 students for every full-time-equivalent teacher at Willard Grizzell Middle School, which has 42. The gap from the 17.0:1 average for middle schools in Ohio is 0.8 students per teacher. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch, often used to gauge student poverty, is 5%. Among public schools in Delaware County, the average eligibility rate is 20%.
On the allk12 Grade, Willard Grizzell Middle School lands at A, ahead of 92% of Ohio public middle schools.
Willard Grizzell Middle School's actual average proficiency rate across its state test results (88.7%) and its predicted rate (86.8%) put it outside the top and bottom 10% of Ohio schools.
Delaware County is the school's county. There, median household income comes to about $133,540, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 59%, and roughly 3% of residents are in poverty. There are 59 public schools in the county, enrolling about 44,100, Willard Grizzell Middle School among them.
Of the public schools around it, Willard Grizzell Middle School is closest to Deer Run Elementary School, about 0.1 miles away. Willard Grizzell Middle School has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Ranking the closest schools with test data puts Willard Grizzell Middle School at 5th of 9.
NCES describes the area around Willard Grizzell Middle School as Suburb: Large, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment fell from 974 to 683, a 30% decrease. The student-to-teacher ratio went down from 21.6:1 to 16.3:1.
This page is a place to ask questions and share updates about fundraisers, report cards, and school supplies at Willard Grizzell Middle School. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Delaware County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
226,834
Census ACS
Median income
$133,540
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
59%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
3%
Below federal line
Schools in county
59
44,100 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Dublin City
- Dublin Jerome High SchoolHigh · 2,075 students
- Dublin Coffman High SchoolHigh · 1,824 students
- Dublin Scioto High SchoolHigh · 1,437 students
- Abraham Depp ElementaryElementary · 902 students
- Ann Simpson Davis Middle SchoolMiddle · 890 students
- Henry Karrer Middle SchoolMiddle · 885 students
Other schools in Dublin
- Dublin Jerome High SchoolHigh · 2,075 students
- Dublin Coffman High SchoolHigh · 1,824 students
- Dublin Scioto High SchoolHigh · 1,437 students
- Ann Simpson Davis Middle SchoolMiddle · 890 students
- Henry Karrer Middle SchoolMiddle · 885 students
- John Sells Middle SchoolMiddle · 715 students
Nearby schools
- Deer Run Elementary School0.1 mi · 356
- Dublin Jerome High School0.9 mi · 2,075
- Glacier Ridge Elementary1.2 mi · 559
- Eli Pinney Elementary School1.4 mi · 585
- Henry Karrer Middle School1.9 mi · 885
- Wyandot Elementary School1.9 mi · 483
Frequently asked questions
About Willard Grizzell Middle SchoolHow many students attend Willard Grizzell Middle School?
Willard Grizzell Middle School enrolls approximately 683 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does Willard Grizzell Middle School serve?
Willard Grizzell Middle School serves grades 06-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Willard Grizzell Middle School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Willard Grizzell Middle School is approximately 16.3:1 (42 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Willard Grizzell Middle School?
Student demographics at Willard Grizzell Middle School are roughly 75% White, 2% Hispanic, 1% Black, 14% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Is Willard Grizzell Middle School public or private?
Willard Grizzell Middle School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Dublin City.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.