Crestview High School

Crestview High School, a modestly sized four-year high school in Ashland, Ohio, run under Crestview Local, hosts 249 students, covering grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Ohio's public schools average about 565 students each, so Crestview High School sits 56% leaner than that benchmark.

Crestview Local runs 10 schools in total, collectively educating 2,951 students. Crestview High School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Crestview High School records that 94% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder consists of 4% multiracial, 2% Hispanic. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 85%.

On the income-and-resources front, Crestview High School logs 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.7:1. The state averages around 17.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 39% of students at Crestview High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably below Richland County's rate of about 54%.

After controlling for student poverty, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Crestview High School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 74.2%; actual is 59.5%, a gap of -14.7 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Richland County) records that median household earnings sit near $59,509, 18% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Richland County runs 49 public schools (combined enrollment of about 18,772 students), of which Crestview High School is one.

The closest other public school is Crestview Middle School, roughly 0.2 miles away. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Crestview High School comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 72.9%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Over the past 7-year window. Crestview High School's enrollment has decreased 27% since 2018, when it stood at 343 (now 249). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.7:1 in 2018 to 14.7:1 today.

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