Willoughby Middle School

Willoughby Middle School, a mid-sized intermediate school in Willoughby, Ohio, one of the schools within Willoughby-Eastlake City, instructs 509 students, covering grades 6 through 8.

Willoughby-Eastlake City comprises 13 schools with combined enrollment of 6,861 students; Willoughby Middle School is among them.

In terms of who attends, Willoughby Middle School lists that White students make up the majority at 58%; the rest looks like 28% Black, 9% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 86% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Willoughby Middle School reports 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.3:1. The state averages around 17.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 52% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Lake County's rate of about 39%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Willoughby Middle School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 69.0%; actual is 47.1%, a gap of -21.9 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Lake County put median household income runs about $80,925, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Lake County's 65 public schools (combined enrollment of about 27,899 students), Willoughby Middle School is one campus in the mix.

South High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Willoughby Middle School comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 58.4%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Willoughby Middle School has decreased 23%, going from 663 students in 2018 to 509 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 70% to 58%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 15.2:1 in 2018 to 11.3:1 today.

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