Bath High School

As a compact four-year high school in Lima, Ohio, Bath High School hosts 437 students from grades 9 through 12, part of Bath Local. Enrollment runs roughly 23% below the state mean of about 565.

Bath Local runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 1,588 students. Bath High School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Bath High School records that 88% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder looks like 5% Hispanic, 3% Black, 2% Asian.

In terms of school funding signals, Bath High School reports 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.7:1 average. About 36% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is lower than Allen County's rate of about 50%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Bath High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 75.3%, the actual is 81.6%, a residual of +6.2 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Allen County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $64,038 per year, roughly 20% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Allen County runs 36 public schools (combined enrollment of about 14,579 students), of which Bath High School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Bath Digital Academy, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

The school occupies a residential site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 8%: 476 students in 2018 compared to 437 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 19.0:1 in 2018 to 14.6:1 today.

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