Berkshire High School

Located at 14155 Claridon Troy Rd # 14155, in Burton, Ohio, Berkshire High School is a small four-year high school that teaches 437 students (grades 9 through 12), one of the schools within Berkshire Local. By comparison, Ohio's public schools average about 565 students each, so Berkshire High School sits 23% below that benchmark.

Berkshire Local runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 1,372 students. Berkshire High School is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Berkshire High School shows that 94% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school records 3% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Geauga County as a whole.

On the resource side, On paper, Berkshire High School has 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 21.6:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.7:1 average. Around 30% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Geauga County (around 21%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Berkshire High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 77.5%, the actual is 67.6%, a residual of -9.8 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Geauga County indicate median household income runs about $107,860, roughly 41% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. In all, Geauga County runs 23 public schools (combined enrollment of about 9,939 students), of which Berkshire High School is one.

The closest other public school is Berkshire Elementary, roughly 0.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Berkshire High School comes 2nd of 6 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 68.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 28%: 605 students in 2018 compared to 437 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.