Waggoner Road Junior High

Waggoner Road Junior High is a grades 6–8 school at 360 Waggoner Rd in Reynoldsburg, OH, serving 924 students — one of the largest middle schools in its local comparison set. It is one of two junior highs in Reynoldsburg City Schools, and it ranks 651st of 1,046 Ohio schools (38th percentile, 2 stars) — 13 percentile points above its own district. After sitting at the 53rd–60th percentile in the late 2010s, the school has settled into a 34th–38th percentile band since 2020-21, so the recent story is a decline that has flattened rather than one still falling. About two-thirds of students (67.3%) were economically disadvantaged in 2024-25.

Two things stand out for parents. First, attendance: chronic absenteeism is 24.2%, roughly half of Baldwin Road Junior High School's 47.0% and below the district's 32.6%. Second, math is sharply split — an accelerated track posts 87.2% proficiency on Integrated Math I versus 40.8% district and 34.4% state, sustained for four years (that exam is taken by a small, selected group, so cross-school comparisons are limited), while 7th-grade math sits at 22.5%, 26.1 points below the state. Reading is at state level in grades 6 and 8 (56.7% and 59.0%) and lags in grade 7. Special education students rank in the 26th percentile with 1 star for three straight years — the clearest persistent gap.

Locally, Waggoner beats Baldwin Road Junior High School in every tested subject despite similar poverty levels, and it outperforms its district in nearly every subject. But Summit Station Intermediate, 2.14 miles away in Licking Heights Local with a similar 64.1% economically disadvantaged population, posts higher results with just 8.8% chronic absenteeism — showing what's possible with a comparable student profile. Notably, students appear to grow here: one cohort moved from 42.1% to 59.0% in ELA between grades 6 and 8.