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Enrollment
1,398
High
DISTRICT 1,702 · STATE 565
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SOUTH-WESTERN CITY·NCES 390448001660
Franklin Heights High School
1001 Demorest Rd, Columbus, OH 43204 · (614) 801-3200 · Franklin County
GRADES 09–12HIGH21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,398 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 16% of Ohio public high schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- C+Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Ohio public high schools
Student : Teacher
19.3:1
72 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 19.8:1 · STATE 17.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
71%
993 students
DISTRICT 66% · STATE 43%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 432 | 31% |
| Grade 10 | 360 | 26% |
| Grade 11 | 320 | 23% |
| Grade 12 | 286 | 20% |
Student demographics
72%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 67% · STATE 54% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
Ohio's State Tests 2024-25 . % Proficient or AboveEnglish Language Arts
47.7%
OH avg 59.8% . +1.2pp since 2021
Math
38.3%
OH avg 56.1% . +3.4pp since 2021
What this means: On the Ohio's State Tests, Ohio's statewide test, about 48 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 38 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Ohio schools, those numbers are about 60 and 56. Reading and writing scores are up about 1 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 3 points.
Ohio's State Tests results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 47.7% | 38.3% |
| 2023-24 | 51.4% | 34.1% |
| 2022-23 | 55.5% | 25.9% |
| 2021-22 | 46.5% | 34.9% |
% Proficient or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Ohio's State Tests. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of OH schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
47.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
62.0%
based on OH schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-14.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 47% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 62% typical for Ohio schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Franklin Heights High School
Franklin Heights High School's state test result (47.3% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Franklin Heights High School this school | 1,398 | 71.0% | 47.3% |
| Princeton High School Cincinnati | 1,619 | 68.0% | 64.2% |
| Central Crossing High School Grove City | 1,674 | 56.1% | 55.1% |
| Westland High School Galloway | 1,853 | 68.4% | 49.7% |
| Brooklyn High School Brooklyn | 470 | 67.0% | 53.4% |
| Scarlet Oaks Cdc Cincinnati | 1,023 | 54.0% | N/A |
Matched among Ohio high schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Franklin Heights High School ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In Ohio | In Franklin County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 47.3% | #396 of 403 | #20 of 21 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 38.3% | #518 of 776 ▲ 5 | #21 of 55 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 47.7% | #605 of 774 ▼ 35 | #28 of 55 ▼ 3 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +2.3pp | #442 of 742 | #35 of 49 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,398 | #84 of 888 | #17 of 66 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 19.3:1 | #571 of 739 | #35 of 50 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 71.7% | #10 of 749 | #5 of 51 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 71.0% | #77 of 435 | #1 of 21 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +6.1% | #116 of 198 | #14 of 23 |
Ranked against other public high schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
1,398
+57 (+4%) vs 2020
+35% since 1990-91, when it was 1,036
Student : Teacher
19.3:1
was 20.9:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 1,398 | 72.4 | 19.3:1 | 71% (993) |
| 2023-24 | 1,377 | 67.9 | 20.3:1 | 72% (998) |
| 2022-23 | 1,338 | 68.4 | 19.6:1 | 65% (865) |
| 2020-21 | 1,341 | 64 | 20.9:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 1,318 | 71.8 | 18.4:1 | 69% (908) |
| 2015-16 | 1,283 | 69 | 18.6:1 | 65% (828) |
| 2010-11 | 1,182 | 69 | 17.1:1 | 57% (668) |
| 2000-01 | 1,139 | 77 | 14.8:1 | 28% (318) |
| 1990-91 | 1,036 | 64 | 16.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Franklin Heights High School.
Since 2017-18: students up 6% (1,318 to 1,398); teachers up 1% (71.8 to 72.4).
About Franklin Heights High School
Students in Columbus, Ohio, attend Franklin Heights High School, a large high school. The school serves grades 9 through 12. Enrollment is 1,398 students. It has 147% more students than the average for high schools in Ohio (about 565).
South-Western City counts 21,873 students in its 33 schools, and Franklin Heights High School is one of them.
The student body at Franklin Heights High School has no majority group. White students lead at 34%. The remaining shares are 29% Black, 28% Hispanic, and 7% multiracial. Franklin County as a whole is about 59% White, so the school's share is lower. A diversity index of 72% means there is a 72% chance two randomly chosen students at Franklin Heights High School are from different groups.
Franklin Heights High School has 72.4 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff and a student-to-teacher ratio of 19.3:1. Across high schools in Ohio, the average ratio is 17.7:1. The school has 71% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Compared with the 41% average for public schools in Franklin County, the school's rate is higher.
Franklin Heights High School earns a C- on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 16% of Ohio public high schools.
Franklin Heights High School scores 14.7 points below its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results: 47.3% actual versus 62.0% predicted. That puts it in the bottom 10% of Ohio schools on BeatsExpectations.
The school's county is Franklin County. According to Census Bureau estimates, the median household earns about $75,176 a year, roughly 42% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 11%. Franklin Heights High School shares Franklin County with 401 other public schools.
Columbus Preparatory and Fitness Academy is about 0.2 miles from Franklin Heights High School, the shortest distance to any other public school. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools.
Under the NCES locale system, Franklin Heights High School is Suburb: Large.
A 4% gain took enrollment from 1,341 in 2020-21 to 1,398 in 2024-25. Staffing shifted too: the ratio moved from 20.9:1 to 19.3:1.
This page is set up for the Franklin Heights High School community to discuss homework, tutoring, and testing dates. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
Franklin County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,333,048
Census ACS
Median income
$75,176
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
42%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
402
195,359 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in South-Western City
- Grove City High SchoolHigh · 1,881 students
- Westland High SchoolHigh · 1,853 students
- Central Crossing High SchoolHigh · 1,674 students
- Buckeye Woods Elementary SchoolElementary · 742 students
- Holt Crossing Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 733 students
- Bolton Crossing ElementaryElementary · 717 students
Other schools in Columbus
- KIPP ColumbusCombined · 1,945 students
- Worthington Kilbourne High SchoolHigh · 1,623 students
- Great River Connections AcademyCombined · 1,608 students
- Northland High SchoolHigh · 1,029 students
- Hamilton Elementary SchoolElementary · 1,028 students
- Whetstone High SchoolHigh · 1,017 students
Nearby schools
- Columbus Preparatory and Fitness Academy0.2 mi · 397
- West Franklin Elementary School0.3 mi · 488
- Wedgewood Middle School0.5 mi · 476
- Binns Elementary School0.6 mi · 299
- Sullivant Avenue Community School0.7 mi · 301
- Eakin Elementary School0.7 mi · 242
Frequently asked questions
About Franklin Heights High SchoolHow large is Franklin Heights High School?
Franklin Heights High School enrolls approximately 1,398 students in grades 09-12.
What age range does Franklin Heights High School serve?
Franklin Heights High School serves students from grade 09 through grade 12.
How many teachers does Franklin Heights High School have?
Franklin Heights High School employs 72 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 19.3:1.
What is the student diversity at Franklin Heights High School?
Student demographics at Franklin Heights High School are roughly 34% White, 28% Hispanic, 29% Black, 2% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Who oversees Franklin Heights High School?
Franklin Heights High School is overseen by South-Western City in Franklin County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.