Bethel Tate High School

Bethel Tate High School is one of the compact high schools in Bethel, Ohio, one of the schools within Bethel-Tate Local, with 402 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Ohio's public schools average about 565 students each, so Bethel Tate High School sits 29% smaller than that benchmark.

Bethel-Tate Local comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 1,346 students; Bethel Tate High School is among them.

In terms of who attends, Bethel Tate High School lists that 94% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder consists of 3% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.5:1. The state averages about 17.7:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 42% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Bethel Tate High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 72.8%; this one delivers 76.8%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Clermont County indicate the typical household earns roughly $85,510 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. Bethel Tate High School is one of 47 public schools in Clermont County (combined enrollment of about 26,246 students).

Nearest neighbor: Hill Intermediate Elementary School, around 1.1 miles off. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Bethel Tate High School at 2nd of 7; the average score across the group is 74.3%.

Bethel Tate High School operates from a rural location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 7%: 430 students in 2018 compared to 402 in 2025. Class-load math has loosened: from 13.9:1 in 2018 to 17.5:1 in 2025.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.