Buckeye Trail High School

Buckeye Trail High School operates as a close-knit 9-12 campus in Lore City, Ohio, run under East Guernsey Local. Current enrollment sits at 287 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 49% leaner than the state mean of about 565.

Within East Guernsey Local, which oversees 4 schools and 1,022 students, Buckeye Trail High School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Buckeye Trail High School reports that nearly all students (97%) are White. Other groups include 2% Hispanic. Compared to Guernsey County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Buckeye Trail High School has 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.7:1, putting Buckeye Trail High School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 59% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Guernsey County runs at roughly 69%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Buckeye Trail High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 66.4%; this one delivers 56.3%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Guernsey County) logs that median household earnings sit near $58,478, roughly 16% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across Guernsey County's 16 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,717 students), Buckeye Trail High School is one campus in the mix.

Preschool at Buckeye Trail High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Buckeye Trail High School.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 3%: 279 students in 2018 compared to 287 in 2025.

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