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Enrollment
636
High
DISTRICT 488 · STATE 565
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BUCKEYE LOCAL·NCES 390484703262
Buckeye High School
3084 Columbia Rd, Medina, OH 44256 · (330) 722-8257 · Medina County
GRADES 09–12HIGH41-RURALREGULAR SCHOOL636 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
20.4:1
31 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.7:1 · STATE 17.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
20%
129 students
DISTRICT 24% · STATE 43%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade
Student demographics
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
Ohio's State Tests 2024-25 . % Proficient or AboveEnglish Language Arts
82.7%
OH avg 59.8% . +11.1pp since 2021
Math
74.0%
OH avg 56.1% . +6.0pp since 2021
What this means: On the Ohio's State Tests, Ohio's statewide test, about 83 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 74 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 6 points.
Source: Ohio's State Tests. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
80.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
81.1%
based on OH schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-1.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 80% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 81% typical for Ohio schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Ohio's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
636
-80 (-11%) vs 2017
Student : Teacher
20.4:1
was 22.2:1
% White
93%
was 95%
% Hispanic
2%
was 2%
% Black
1%
was 1%
% Asian
0%
was 1%
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
About Buckeye High School
Set in Medina, Ohio, Buckeye High School is an average-sized high school, run under Buckeye Local. It teaches 636 students across grades 9 through 12.
Buckeye Local comprises 13 schools with combined enrollment of 5,091 students; Buckeye High School is among them.
Looking at the student body, Buckeye High School logs that 93% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder comes out to 3% multiracial, 2% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Medina County as a whole.
On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 20.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.7:1, putting Buckeye High School higher than the state norm the norm. About 20% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Buckeye High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 81.1%; this one delivers 80.1%.
Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Medina County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $94,968 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Across Medina County's 49 public schools (combined enrollment of about 25,243 students), Buckeye High School is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is Buckeye Junior High School, roughly 0.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Buckeye High School. On composite proficiency, Buckeye High School comes 3rd of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 79.1%.
Geographically, the school is in a rural area.
Trend over the last 7 years. Buckeye High School's enrollment has fell 11% since 2018, when it stood at 716 (now 636). The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 22.2:1 in 2018 to 20.4:1 today.
On this page, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
Medina County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
183,660
Census ACS
Median income
$94,968
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
36%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
49
25,243 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Buckeye Local
- Buckeye Primary SchoolElementary · 581 students
- Buckeye Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 581 students
- Edgewood High SchoolHigh · 470 students
- Ridgeview Elementary SchoolElementary · 397 students
- Kingsville Elementary SchoolElementary · 394 students
- Wallace H Braden Middle SchoolMiddle · 373 students
Other schools in Medina
- Medina High SchoolHigh · 1,767 students
- Highland High SchoolHigh · 989 students
- Highland Middle SchoolMiddle · 824 students
- Medina County Career CenterHigh · 787 students
- Claggett Middle SchoolMiddle · 724 students
- A. I. Root Middle SchoolMiddle · 690 students
Nearby schools
- Buckeye Junior High School0.1 mi · 312
- Buckeye Intermediate School0.2 mi · 581
- Buckeye Primary School0.2 mi · 581
- Medina County Career Center2.8 mi · 787
- Claggett Middle School4.8 mi · 724
- Evolve Academy5.0 mi · 12
Frequently asked questions
About Buckeye High SchoolHow many students attend Buckeye High School?
Buckeye High School enrolls approximately 636 students in grades 09-12.
What age range does Buckeye High School serve?
Buckeye High School serves students from grade 09 through grade 12.
How many teachers does Buckeye High School have?
Buckeye High School employs 31 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 20.4:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Buckeye High School?
At Buckeye High School, the student body is approximately 93% White, 2% Hispanic, 1% Black, 0% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Is Buckeye High School public or private?
Buckeye High School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Buckeye Local.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.