Bridge Street Middle School

Bridge Street Middle School operates as a small middle-grades school in Wheeling, West Virginia. The school enrolls 263 students in grades 6 through 8. On average, middle schools in West Virginia enroll around 429, and this school is 39% below that mark.

Besides Bridge Street Middle School, Ohio County Schools runs 14 other schools. The district enrolls 5,215 students.

Bridge Street Middle School is 91% White by enrollment. Next come 3% Black and 3% multiracial. That is in line with Ohio County, where about 90% of residents are White. The diversity index for Bridge Street Middle School is 16%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.

The school has 23.5 full-time-equivalent teachers and a ratio of 11.2 students per teacher. Middle schools in West Virginia have an average ratio of 13.3:1.

In the surrounding county, Ohio County, the median household earns about $57,094 a year, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting Bridge Street Middle School, Ohio County has 15 public schools.

Bridge Street Middle School's nearest public school is Elm Grove Elementary School (about 1.1 miles). In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Bridge Street Middle School.

The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as City: Small, meaning it is inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.

The 2020-21-to-2024-25 change in enrollment was a 17% decline, from 315 to 263. The student-to-teacher ratio went down from 13.1:1 to 11.2:1.

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