Amherst Junior High School
Amherst, OH · Middle School · Grades 6-8
Amherst Junior High School is a middle school in Amherst, OH with 867 students enrolled and a 61% proficiency rate. Part of Amherst Exempted Village. NCES data from the U.S. Department of Education.
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About This School
Amherst Junior High School is a middle school located in Amherst, Ohio. The school serves 867 students in grades 6-8. The student-to-teacher ratio is 18.8:1.
According to EDFacts assessment data, 61% of students meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading.
31% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
Amherst Junior High School is part of the Amherst Exempted Village in Ohio.
How This School Compares
Amherst Junior High School has 867 students enrolled, making it smaller than the average school in Amherst Exempted Village (891 students). Its 61% proficiency rate is 5 percentage points above the district average of 57%. Compared to the Ohio state average of 53%, the school performs 9 points higher.
Frequently Asked Questions
Amherst Junior High School has 867 students enrolled in grades 6-8. The student-to-teacher ratio is 18.8:1.
According to EDFacts data, 61% of students at Amherst Junior High School meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading assessments.
Amherst Junior High School is part of the Amherst Exempted Village in Amherst, Ohio. You can view all schools in this district on the district page.
All data on this page comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessment results. These are official federal datasets published by the U.S. Department of Education.
School profiles are built from NCES directory data and EDFacts assessment results. Proficiency rates reflect combined math and reading performance. Graduation rates are reported for high schools with available data.
this entity is one of the data points covered by this site’s U.S. K-12 school outcomes and enrollment dataset. The detail above comes directly from NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts; the context that follows situates the headline numbers against the broader distribution across U.S. public schools and districts.
Every number on this page links back to NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts; the methodology page describes the inputs, refresh cadence, and known limitations of the underlying data product.
For readers using this page as a decision input, the related-entity pages elsewhere on the site provide the comparison set. The most useful comparison for this entity is typically a peer within U.S. public schools and districts with similar size, similar exposure, or similar geography — not the national-level summary alone.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, 2026.