Dixie Heights High School

As a well-populated senior high in Fort Mitchell, Kentucky, Dixie Heights High School teaches 1,499 students from grades 9 through 12, one of the schools within Kenton County. Enrollment runs roughly 169% larger than the state mean of about 558.

Across the 18 schools in Kenton County (13,834 students total), Dixie Heights High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Dixie Heights High School shows that White students make up the majority at 73%. The remainder reads as 12% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 5% Black, 3% Asian. By comparison, Kenton County as a whole is about 86% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 66 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 22.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 16.6:1 average. Roughly 41% of students at Dixie Heights High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably below Kenton County's rate of about 54%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Dixie Heights High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.8%, the actual is 44.8%, a residual of -5.1 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Kenton County indicate the typical household earns roughly $80,548 per year, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Kenton County runs 46 public schools (combined enrollment of about 22,225 students), of which Dixie Heights High School is one.

Turkey Foot Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Dixie Heights High School. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Dixie Heights High School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 39.2%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Dixie Heights High School has grew 4%, going from 1,438 students in 2018 to 1,499 in 2025. The White share of enrollment fell from 83% to 73% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 20.3:1 in 2018 to 22.6:1 today.

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