Buckeye Valley Local High School

As a middle-of-the-pack four-year high school in Delaware, Ohio, Buckeye Valley Local High School serves 597 students from grades 9 through 12, one of the schools within Buckeye Valley Local.

Buckeye Valley Local runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 2,298 students. Buckeye Valley Local High School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Buckeye Valley Local High School logs that 91% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 4% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 80%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.5:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.7:1, putting Buckeye Valley Local High School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 23% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, Buckeye Valley Local High School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 80.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 82.4%.

Across the wider county, census data for Delaware County shows the typical household earns roughly $133,540 per year, about 59% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 3%. Buckeye Valley Local High School is one of 59 public schools in Delaware County (combined enrollment of about 44,100 students).

The closest other public school is Buckeye Valley Local Middle School, roughly 0.2 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Buckeye Valley Local High School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 69.0%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 19%: 738 students in 2018 compared to 597 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 19.6:1 in 2018 to 16.5:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.