Hardin Northern High School

Located at 11589 State Route 81, in Dola, Ohio, Hardin Northern High School is a micro-enrollment four-year high school that educates 173 students (grades 7 through 12), one of the schools within Hardin Northern Local. By comparison, Ohio's public schools average about 565 students each, so Hardin Northern High School sits 69% leaner than that benchmark.

Hardin Northern Local runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 384 students. Hardin Northern High School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Hardin Northern High School records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (94%); the rest looks like 3% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. Compared to Hardin County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the resource side, On paper, Hardin Northern High School has 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.8:1. The state averages around 17.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 86% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Hardin County (around 68%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Hardin Northern High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 56.3%, the actual is 58.0%, a residual of +1.7 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Hardin County put median household income runs about $62,484, 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Hardin Northern High School is one of 14 public schools in Hardin County (combined enrollment of about 4,050 students).

Hardin Northern Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Hardin Northern High School's enrollment has declined 6% since 2018, when it stood at 185 (now 173).

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