Carlisle High School

Carlisle High School, a compact four-year high school in Carlisle, Ohio, one of the schools within Carlisle Local, teaches 415 students, covering grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Ohio's public schools average about 565 students each, so Carlisle High School sits 27% smaller than that benchmark.

Carlisle High School is one of 4 schools operated by Carlisle Local, a district that serves 1,546 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Carlisle High School logs that nearly all students (93%) are White. Beyond that, the school records 3% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Warren County as a whole is about 83% White, so the school skews visibly more White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.7:1 average. An estimated 40% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Warren County's rate of about 24%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Carlisle High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 73.7%, the actual is 64.2%, a residual of -9.5 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Warren County) shows that median household earnings sit near $110,132, 46% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Warren County's 45 public schools (combined enrollment of about 39,898 students), Carlisle High School is one campus in the mix.

Carlisle Junior High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Carlisle High School at 3rd of 4; the average score across the group is 69.0%.

Carlisle High School operates from an outer-ring location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Carlisle High School has changed only slightly, going from 422 students in 2018 to 415 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 17.4:1 in 2018 to 12.2:1 today.

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