Bucyrus Secondary School

Bucyrus Secondary School, a compact four-year high school in Bucyrus, Ohio, overseen by Bucyrus City, hosts 247 students, covering grades 9 through 12. That puts it 56% leaner than the typical public school in Ohio, which averages around 565 students.

Bucyrus City runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 1,065 students. Bucyrus Secondary School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Bucyrus Secondary School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (92%). Other groups include 4% multiracial, 2% Black. That composition is broadly in line with Crawford County as a whole.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.7:1 average. About 99% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Crawford County runs at roughly 57%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Bucyrus Secondary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 51.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 51.9%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Crawford County shows median household income runs about $58,044, about 17% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Crawford County's 22 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,870 students), Bucyrus Secondary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Bucyrus Middle School, roughly 0.0 miles away. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Bucyrus Secondary School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 66.0%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Five-year trend. Bucyrus Secondary School's enrollment has shrank 61% since 2018, when it stood at 631 (now 247). The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 15.4:1 in 2018 to 12.3:1 today.

On the community side, members of the Bucyrus Secondary School community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.