Graham High School

Located at 7800 Us Highway 36, in Saint Paris, Ohio, Graham High School is an average-sized 9-12 campus that enrolls 491 students (grades 9 through 12), overseen by Graham Local.

Graham High School is one of 3 schools operated by Graham Local, a district that works with 1,588 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Graham High School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (92%). The remainder consists of 5% multiracial, 2% Hispanic. Compared to Champaign County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 27.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.7:1 average. An estimated 42% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably below Champaign County's rate of about 57%.

With demographic context factored in, Graham High School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 73.0%; this one comes in at 60.2%, -12.9 points off the demographic line.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Champaign County) records that median household earnings sit near $75,556, about 19% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Champaign County's 15 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,135 students), Graham High School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Graham Elementary School, roughly 1.6 miles away. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Graham High School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 61.0%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Graham High School's enrollment has declined 22% since 2018, when it stood at 626 (now 491). Class-load math has grew: from 20.9:1 in 2018 to 27.3:1 in 2025.

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