Whitmer High School

Whitmer High School is one of the large four-year high schools in Toledo, Ohio, one of the schools within Washington Local, with 2,113 students on its rolls from grades 8 through 12. By comparison, Ohio's public schools average about 565 students each, so Whitmer High School sits 274% above that benchmark.

Whitmer High School is one of 11 schools operated by Washington Local, a district that teaches 6,661 students overall.

On demographics, Whitmer High School shows that 59% of the student body identifies as White; the rest comes out to 15% Black, 14% Hispanic, 11% multiracial. By comparison, Lucas County as a whole is about 68% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Whitmer High School reports 113 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.7:1. The state averages around 17.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 55% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of Lucas County's rate of about 44%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Whitmer High School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 68.2%; actual is 48.3%, a gap of -19.9 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Lucas County) logs that median household earnings sit near $62,224, 29% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Lucas County runs 143 public schools (combined enrollment of about 73,839 students), of which Whitmer High School is one.

The closest other public school is Jefferson Junior High School, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Whitmer High School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 54.8%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Whitmer High School has changed only slightly, going from 2,132 students in 2018 to 2,113 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 73% to 59% across the same window. Class-load math has widened: from 16.5:1 in 2018 to 18.7:1 in 2025.

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