Choffin Career Cntr

As a minimally staffed 9-12 campus in Youngstown, Ohio, Choffin Career Cntr serves 29 students from grades 11 through 12, operated by Youngstown City. That puts it 95% below the typical public school in Ohio, which averages around 565 students.

Within Youngstown City, which oversees 14 schools and 4,004 students, Choffin Career Cntr is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Choffin Career Cntr logs that the largest single group is Black at 52%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest reads as 24% White, 17% multiracial, 7% Hispanic. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 14%.

Looking at school resources, The school reports having 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 2.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.7:1, putting Choffin Career Cntr tighter than the state norm the norm.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Mahoning County put median household income runs about $56,942, 27% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 14%. In all, Mahoning County runs 77 public schools (combined enrollment of about 27,927 students), of which Choffin Career Cntr is one.

The closest other public school is Youngstown Rayen Early College High School, roughly 0.2 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

Choffin Career Cntr operates from an inner-city location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Choffin Career Cntr has decreased 54%, going from 63 students in 2018 to 29 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 13% to 7% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 3.1:1 in 2018 to 2.1:1 in 2025.

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