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Avon High School
Test scores
Ohio's State Tests 2024-25 . % Proficient or AboveWhat this means: On the Ohio's State Tests, Ohio's statewide test, about 86 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 81 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Ohio schools, those numbers are about 60 and 56. Reading and writing scores are down about 4 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 9 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 85% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 83% typical for Ohio schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Ohio's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Avon High School
Avon High School operates as a big high school in Avon, Ohio, run under Avon Local. Current enrollment sits at 1,417 students spanning grades 8 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 151% bigger than the state mean of about 565.
Within Avon Local, which oversees 5 schools and 4,303 students, Avon High School is one campus in the system.
On the student-mix side, Avon High School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (80%). Beyond that, the school reports 9% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 4% Asian, 3% Black. Compared to Lorain County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.
In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Avon High School has 69 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 20.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.7:1, putting Avon High School higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 14% of students at Avon High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Lorain County (around 33%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.
After controlling for student poverty, Avon High School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 83.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 84.8%.
Around the school, census data for Lorain County shows the typical household earns roughly $73,347 per year, 29% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Avon High School is one of 92 public schools in Lorain County (combined enrollment of about 42,516 students).
Nearest neighbor: Avon Early Learning Center, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Avon High School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Avon High School at 2nd of 6; the average score across the group is 73.0%.
The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.
Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Avon High School has ticked up 8%, going from 1,308 students in 2018 to 1,417 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 85% to 80%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 23.6:1 in 2018 to 20.5:1 today.
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