Delaware Area Career Center South Campus

Delaware Area Career Center South Campus operates as a low-enrollment four-year high school in Delaware, Ohio, one of the schools within Delaware Area Career Center. Current enrollment sits at 315 students spanning grades 6 through 12. That puts it 44% leaner than the typical public school in Ohio, which averages around 565 students.

Delaware Area Career Center South Campus is a school of Delaware Area Career Center, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

Looking at the student body, Delaware Area Career Center South Campus records that 82% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 7% Black, 5% multiracial, 5% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Delaware County as a whole.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 61 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 5.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.7:1 average. An estimated 99% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Delaware County's rate of about 20%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Delaware County) logs that median household income runs about $133,540, roughly 59% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 3%. Across Delaware County's 59 public schools (combined enrollment of about 44,100 students), Delaware Area Career Center South Campus is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Olentangy Preschool at DACC, roughly 0.0 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.