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Enrollment
1,881
High
DISTRICT 1,702 · STATE 565
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SOUTH-WESTERN CITY·NCES 390448001662
Grove City High School
4665 Hoover Rd, Grove City, OH 43123 · (614) 801-3300 · Franklin County
GRADES 09–12HIGH21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL1,881 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 50% of Ohio public high schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats 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
20.3:1
92 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 19.8:1 · STATE 17.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
33%
629 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 | 545 | 29% |
| Grade 10 | 451 | 24% |
| Grade 11 | 454 | 24% |
| Grade 12 | 431 | 23% |
Student demographics
38%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
75.1%
OH avg 59.8% . -0.4pp since 2021
Math
55.8%
OH avg 56.1% . +1.5pp since 2021
What this means: On the Ohio's State Tests, Ohio's statewide test, about 75 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 56 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Ohio schools, those numbers are about 60 and 56. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2021, while math scores are up about 1 points.
Ohio's State Tests results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 75.1% | 55.8% |
| 2023-24 | 70.6% | 49.0% |
| 2022-23 | 69.5% | 51.0% |
| 2021-22 | 75.5% | 54.3% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
69.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
76.2%
based on OH schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-6.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 70% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 76% typical for Ohio schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Ohio's top nor bottom 10%.
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 Grove City High School
Grove City High School's state test result (69.6% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grove City High School this school | 1,881 | 33.4% | 69.6% |
| Sylvania Northview High School Sylvania | 1,283 | 28.6% | 79.3% |
| Lebanon High School Lebanon | 1,604 | 28.4% | 74.7% |
| Mentor High School Mentor | 2,217 | 29.7% | 79.3% |
| Rutherford B Hayes High School Delaware | 1,612 | 35.0% | 72.5% |
| North Ridgeville High School North Ridgeville | 1,248 | 31.1% | 74.7% |
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 Grove City High School ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In Ohio | In Franklin County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 69.6% | #232 of 403 | #12 of 21 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 55.8% | #297 of 776 ▲ 62 | #14 of 55 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 75.1% | #208 of 774 ▲ 86 | #9 of 55 ▲ 2 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +0.5pp | #514 of 742 | #39 of 49 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,881 | #23 of 888 | #4 of 66 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 20.3:1 | #622 of 739 | #42 of 50 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 37.8% | #240 of 749 | #42 of 51 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 33.4% | #297 of 435 | #12 of 21 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -0.9% | #467 of 484 | #18 of 22 |
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
1,881
+44 (+2%) vs 2020
+4% since 1990-91, when it was 1,807
Student : Teacher
20.3:1
was 20.6:1
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 | 1,881 | 92.5 | 20.3:1 | 33% (629) |
| 2023-24 | 1,853 | 89 | 20.8:1 | 32% (591) |
| 2022-23 | 1,881 | 91 | 20.7:1 | 24% (445) |
| 2020-21 | 1,837 | 89 | 20.6:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 1,898 | 91.5 | 20.8:1 | 19% (364) |
| 2015-16 | 1,877 | 93 | 20.2:1 | 21% (403) |
| 2010-11 | 1,861 | 91 | 20.4:1 | 20% (369) |
| 2000-01 | 2,149 | 116 | 18.5:1 | 9% (194) |
| 1990-91 | 1,807 | 92 | 19.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Grove City High School.
Since 2017-18: students down 1% (1,898 to 1,881); teachers up 1% (91.5 to 92.5).
About Grove City High School
Grove City High School is a large high school for students in Grove City, Ohio. Classes run from 9 through 12, and the school has 1,881 students. The average for high schools in Ohio is about 565 students, so this school is 233% above average.
Grove City High School is among 33 schools run by South-Western City, which serves 21,873 students.
At Grove City High School, White students make up 78% of the student body. The remaining shares are 8% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, and 6% Black. Franklin County as a whole is about 59% White, so the school's share is higher. Grove City High School's diversity index is 38%, against a US figure of 70%.
With 92.5 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, the ratio at Grove City High School was 20.3:1. This ratio sits 2.6 above the 17.7:1 average for high schools in Ohio. A measure often used for student poverty, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, stands at 33%.
Measured against Ohio public high schools, Grove City High School receives a B-. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
Grove City High School is 6.6 points below its predicted average proficiency rate on state tests (69.6% versus 76.2%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in Ohio.
In the county around the school, Franklin County, the median household income is $75,176, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 11% of people live in poverty. There are 402 public schools in Franklin County, enrolling about 195,359 students in all.
Nearby, Hayes Intermediate School is about 0.7 miles away. Within five miles of Grove City High School, there are at least 8 other public schools. On average proficiency, Grove City High School is 5th of 7 nearby schools with test data.
On the NCES locale scale, the school is Suburb: Large.
Enrollment in 2024-25 was 1,881, close to the 1,837 recorded in 2020-21.
Parents and students can post about school events, clubs, and volunteer needs at Grove City High School. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
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
- Westland High SchoolHigh · 1,853 students
- Central Crossing High SchoolHigh · 1,674 students
- Franklin Heights High SchoolHigh · 1,398 students
- Buckeye Woods Elementary SchoolElementary · 742 students
- Holt Crossing Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 733 students
- Bolton Crossing ElementaryElementary · 717 students
Other schools in Grove City
- Central Crossing High SchoolHigh · 1,674 students
- Buckeye Woods Elementary SchoolElementary · 742 students
- Holt Crossing Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 733 students
- Beulah Park Middle SchoolMiddle · 710 students
- Park Street Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 667 students
- Jackson Middle SchoolMiddle · 665 students
Nearby schools
- Hayes Intermediate School0.7 mi · 464
- The Bostic Head Start Center0.7 mi · 144
- JC Sommer Elementary School0.8 mi · 545
- South-Western Preschool Center0.8 mi · 345
- Park Street Intermediate School1.1 mi · 667
- Buckeye Woods Elementary School1.1 mi · 742
Frequently asked questions
About Grove City High SchoolHow many students attend Grove City High School?
Grove City High School enrolls approximately 1,881 students in grades 09-12.
Is Grove City High School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Grove City High School is a high school covering grades 09-12.
How many teachers does Grove City High School have?
Grove City High School employs 92 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 20.3:1.
What is the student diversity at Grove City High School?
Student demographics at Grove City High School are roughly 78% White, 8% Hispanic, 6% Black, 2% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Who oversees Grove City High School?
Grove City High School is overseen by South-Western City in Franklin County.
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