Ashland-W Holmes Career Center

Ashland-W Holmes Career Center is a 9-12 campus of compact scale in Ashland, Ohio, overseen by Ashland County-West Holmes Joint Vocational School, instructing 440 students in grades 7 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 565 students per school, that is 22% below typical.

Ashland County-West Holmes Joint Vocational School is the operating authority for Ashland-W Holmes Career Center, handling staffing, calendars, and reporting to the state department of education.

On the student-mix side, Ashland-W Holmes Career Center lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (94%). The remainder reads as 3% multiracial. Compared to Ashland County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.7:1 average. About 59% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Ashland County runs at roughly 50%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Ashland County) logs that median household income runs about $69,860, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Ashland County's 21 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,940 students), Ashland-W Holmes Career Center is one campus in the mix.

Hillsdale 7-12 is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.9 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 5 other public schools.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

On the community side, members of the Ashland-W Holmes Career Center community share and discuss classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. The community welcomes input from current and former families.