Edison High School

Edison High School is a secondary school of close-knit scale in Richmond, Ohio, part of Edison Local, educateing 368 students in grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 35% smaller than the state mean of about 565.

Across the 4 schools in Edison Local (1,372 students total), Edison High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Edison High School lists that 96% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority.

Looking at school resources, Edison High School reports 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.1:1. The state averages around 17.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 70% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Jefferson County runs at roughly 59%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Edison High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 62.3%, the actual is 67.3%, a residual of +5.0 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Jefferson County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $59,055 per year, about 20% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. Edison High School is one of 24 public schools in Jefferson County (combined enrollment of about 8,635 students).

The closest other public school is Edison Jr. High School, roughly 0.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Edison High School's enrollment has fell 8% since 2018, when it stood at 401 (now 368). Class-load math has narrowed: from 19.9:1 in 2018 to 13.1:1 in 2025.

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