Grand Valley High School

Grand Valley High School operates as a compact four-year high school in Orwell, Ohio, operated by Grand Valley Local. Current enrollment sits at 273 students spanning grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Ohio's public schools average about 565 students each, so Grand Valley High School sits 52% leaner than that benchmark.

Grand Valley Local runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 814 students. Grand Valley High School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Grand Valley High School reports that 95% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest looks like 3% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.6:1. The state averages around 17.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 58% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Grand Valley High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 67.1%, the actual is 57.9%, a residual of -9.2 points.

In the area at large, census data for Ashtabula County shows the typical household earns roughly $57,728 per year, roughly 16% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Ashtabula County's 34 public schools (combined enrollment of about 12,023 students), Grand Valley High School is one campus in the mix.

Grand Valley Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Grand Valley High School ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 61.1%.

Grand Valley High School operates from a low-density location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 19%: 338 students in 2018 compared to 273 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 17.3:1 in 2018 to 14.6:1 in 2025.

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