Garaway High School

Garaway High School, an intimate four-year high school in Sugarcreek, Ohio, operated by Garaway Local, teaches 441 students, covering grades 7 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 565 students per school, that is 22% smaller than typical.

Garaway Local runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 1,055 students. Garaway High School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Garaway High School logs that 91% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder breaks down as 7% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.3:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.7:1, putting Garaway High School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 29% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Tuscarawas County (around 40%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Garaway High School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 77.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 78.5%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Tuscarawas County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $65,044 per year, about 20% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Garaway High School is one of 44 public schools in Tuscarawas County (combined enrollment of about 15,660 students).

The closest other public school is Miller Avenue Elementary School, roughly 0.6 miles away. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Garaway High School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 80.7%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 15%: 519 students in 2018 compared to 441 in 2025. The White share of enrollment fell from 98% to 91% over that span.

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