Public school / Primary
Walter G. Nord Middle School
Amherst, Ohio
- NCES ID
- 390451902118
- District
- Amherst Exempted Village
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Walter G. Nord Middle School is a public primary school in Amherst, Ohio, run by Amherst Exempted Village. It enrols 535 students — the 33188th largest of 3,695 public schools in Ohio.
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
535
Teachers
29.0
Students per teacher
18.4
Free or reduced-price lunch
34.2%
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.
Within Amherst Exempted Village
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.
- 1Powers Elementary School1,123 students
- 2Marion L Steele High School1,039 students
- 3Amherst Junior High School867 students
- 4Walter G. Nord Middle School535 students
- Enrollment+27.4%
- Teachers+26.1%
- Students per teacher+5.1%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−7.1%
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