Avon Lake High School

Set in Avon Lake, Ohio, Avon Lake High School is a sprawling high school, overseen by Avon Lake City. It caters to 1,054 students across grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 565 students per school, that is 87% larger than typical.

Within Avon Lake City, which oversees 7 schools and 3,434 students, Avon Lake High School is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Avon Lake High School records that 89% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 4% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. By comparison, Lorain County as a whole is about 78% White, so the school skews considerably more White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school lists 63 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.7:1. The state averages around 17.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 15% 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, Lorain County runs at roughly 33%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Avon Lake High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 83.0%, the actual is 83.3%, a residual of +0.3 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Lorain County shows the typical household earns roughly $73,347 per year, about 29% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across Lorain County's 92 public schools (combined enrollment of about 42,516 students), Avon Lake High School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Erieview Elementary School, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Avon Lake High School. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Avon Lake High School ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 86.0%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 14%: 1,224 students in 2018 compared to 1,054 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 20.4:1 in 2018 to 16.7:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, members of the Avon Lake High School community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.