Celina High School

Celina High School is a mid-tier high school in Celina, Ohio, part of Celina City. The school caters to 743 students in grades 8 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 565 students per school, that is 32% bigger than typical.

Celina City comprises 8 schools with combined enrollment of 3,694 students; Celina High School is among them.

On demographics, Celina High School lists that nearly all students (83%) are White. Other groups include 6% Pacific Islander, 5% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 95% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Celina High School has 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.7:1 average. Roughly 43% of students at Celina High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Celina High School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 72.5%; this one comes in at 61.5%, -11.0 points off the demographic line.

Across the wider county, Mercer County reports that median household income runs about $76,782, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Mercer County's 22 public schools (combined enrollment of about 9,242 students), Celina High School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Celina Primary School, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 6 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Celina High School comes 4th of 4 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 74.5%.

The campus sits in a town-center setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Celina High School's enrollment has edged down 15% since 2018, when it stood at 878 (now 743). Over the same period, the White share edged down from 89% to 83%.

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