Blennerhassett Middle School

Blennerhassett Middle School is a middle-grades school of average-sized scale in Parkersburg, West Virginia, one of the schools within Wood County Schools, instructing 534 students in grades 6 through 8. That puts it 24% larger than the typical public school in West Virginia, which averages around 429 students.

Wood County Schools runs 25 schools in total, collectively educating 11,098 students. Blennerhassett Middle School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Blennerhassett Middle School reports that 94% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest looks like 4% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, On paper, Blennerhassett Middle School has 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.8:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.3:1 average.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Wood County indicate the typical household earns roughly $57,810 per year, about 24% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Wood County runs 27 public schools (combined enrollment of about 11,098 students), of which Blennerhassett Middle School is one.

Blennerhassett Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Five-year trend. Blennerhassett Middle School's enrollment has changed only slightly since 2018, when it stood at 528 (now 534). The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 14.3:1 in 2018 to 17.8:1 today.

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