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Public school / Middle

Canaan Middle School

Plain, Ohio

NCES ID
390482605138
District
Jonathan Alder Local
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Canaan Middle School is a public middle school in Plain, Ohio, run by Jonathan Alder Local. It enrols 363 students — the 56528th largest of 3,695 public schools in Ohio.

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Reported figures, 2022–2023

The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.

Enrollment

363students

56528th nationally, tied with 140

Teachers

15.0FTE

75519th nationally, tied with 1,812

Students per teacher

24.2students

88490th nationally, tied with 156

Free or reduced-price lunch

26.7%percent

72203rd nationally, tied with 75

How these figures are defined

Enrollment

Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.

Teachers

Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.

Students per teacher

Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.

Free or reduced-price lunch

Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.

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Within Jonathan Alder Local

Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.

Enrollment — same district
  1. 1Jonathan Alder High School687 students
  2. 2Plain City Elementary School646 students
  3. 3Canaan Middle School363 students
  4. 4Jonathan Alder Junior High338 students
  5. 5Monroe Elementary School231 students
Distance from the state median

Baseline: Ohio median across 3,695 public schools. Bars right of the rule are above it.

  • Enrollment−13.6%
  • Teachers−34.8%
  • Students per teacher+38.3%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch−27.4%
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Where this sits

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Sources & licence

Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.

Provenance

National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data — school and district directory
Current · as of August 17, 2026U.S. Public Domain (NCES)

Collected and published by NCES; retrieved through the Urban Institute Education Data Portal, which republishes the NCES files unchanged.

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Data as of September 1, 2022.