Belpre High School
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Test scores
Ohio's State Tests 2024-25 . % Proficient or AboveWhat this means: On the Ohio's State Tests, Ohio's statewide test, about 60 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 50 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Ohio schools, those numbers are about 60 and 56. Reading and writing scores are up about 11 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 22 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 57% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 69% typical for Ohio schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Belpre High School
Located at 300 Stone Rd, in Belpre, Ohio, Belpre High School is a low-enrollment 9-12 campus that works with 387 students (grades 7 through 12), overseen by Belpre City. Compared to the state average of about 565 students per school, that is 32% below typical.
Within Belpre City, which oversees 3 schools and 889 students, Belpre High School is one campus in the system.
In terms of who attends, Belpre High School lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (91%). Beyond that, the school logs 7% multiracial. Compared to Washington County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.
On the resource side, On paper, Belpre High School has 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.7:1 average. Roughly 52% of students at Belpre High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Belpre High School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 69.0%; actual is 56.9%, a gap of -12.1 points.
In the broader community, ACS estimates for Washington County put median household earnings sit near $63,603, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Washington County's 26 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,355 students), Belpre High School is one campus in the mix.
Belpre Blue Sky Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.
The school occupies an outer-ring site.
Looking at the recent track record. Belpre High School's enrollment has changed only slightly since 2018, when it stood at 395 (now 387). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 18.3:1 in 2018 to 14.3:1 today.
On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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- Belpre Elementary SchoolElementary · 484 students
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- Belpre Elementary School1.5 mi · 484
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- Jefferson Elementary Center1.9 mi · 475
- Van Devender Middle School1.9 mi · 244
- Madison Elementary School2.3 mi · 264