Berne Union High School

As a compact senior high in Sugar Grove, Ohio, Berne Union High School serves 366 students from grades 7 through 12, overseen by Berne Union Local. Compared to the state average of about 565 students per school, that is 35% below typical.

Berne Union Local runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 813 students. Berne Union High School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Berne Union High School records that 93% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest consists of 3% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That is considerably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 82%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school lists 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.6:1. The state averages around 17.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 93% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Fairfield County (around 41%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Berne Union High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 53.8%, the actual is 58.3%, a residual of +4.4 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Fairfield County) records that the typical household earns roughly $90,966 per year, roughly 32% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Fairfield County runs 47 public schools (combined enrollment of about 26,447 students), of which Berne Union High School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Berne Union Elementary School, around 0.0 miles off. Within ten miles, there are 8 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas.

Berne Union High School operates from a small-town location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 10%: 406 students in 2018 compared to 366 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.2:1 in 2018 to 14.6:1 today.

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