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Carrollton High School
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Ohio's State Tests 2024-25 . % Proficient or AboveWhat this means: On the Ohio's State Tests, Ohio's statewide test, about 72 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 59 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 10 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 6 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 65% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 74% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Carrollton High School
Carrollton High School, a reasonably sized four-year high school in Carrollton, Ohio, one of the schools within Carrollton Exempted Village, hosts 517 students, covering grades 9 through 12.
Carrollton Exempted Village runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 1,739 students. Carrollton High School is one of those campuses.
On the student-mix side, Carrollton High School records that nearly all students (92%) are White. Other groups include 5% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.
On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Carrollton High School has 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.8:1. The state averages around 17.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 40% of students at Carrollton High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is below Carroll County's rate of about 50%.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Carrollton High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 73.8%; this one delivers 64.9%.
In the broader community, community-level numbers for Carroll County indicate the typical household earns roughly $64,835 per year, about 16% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, Carroll County runs 8 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,824 students), of which Carrollton High School is one.
The closest other public school is Carrollton Middle School, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Carrollton High School. On composite proficiency, Carrollton High School comes 4th of 5 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 69.9%.
Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Carrollton High School has contracted 11%, going from 581 students in 2018 to 517 in 2025. The White share of enrollment declined from 97% to 92% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 17.6:1 in 2018 to 14.8:1 in 2025.
In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
Carroll County at a glance
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- Carrollton Elementary SchoolElementary · 804 students
- Carrollton Middle SchoolMiddle · 418 students
- Carrollton Elementary SchoolElementary · 804 students
- Carrollton Middle SchoolMiddle · 418 students
- Carrollton Middle School0.0 mi · 418
- Carrollton Elementary School1.0 mi · 804
- Malvern Middle School9.2 mi · 143
- Malvern High School9.2 mi · 166
- Malvern Elementary School9.2 mi · 259
- Conotton Valley High School9.5 mi · 226