Hillsdale 7-12

Hillsdale 7-12 operates as a low-enrollment four-year high school in Jeromesville, Ohio, overseen by Hillsdale Local. Current enrollment sits at 360 students spanning grades 7 through 12. That puts it 36% smaller than the typical public school in Ohio, which averages around 565 students.

Hillsdale 7-12 is one of 2 schools operated by Hillsdale Local, a district that caters to 907 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Hillsdale 7-12 logs that 94% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 3% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. Compared to Ashland County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.7:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 36% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Ashland County (around 50%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Hillsdale 7-12 sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 75.2%; this one delivers 69.3%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Ashland County indicate median household income runs about $69,860, roughly 23% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Ashland County runs 21 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,940 students), of which Hillsdale 7-12 is one.

Hillsdale PK-6 is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Hillsdale 7-12 comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 75.1%.

Hillsdale 7-12 operates from a small-town location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 54%: 234 students in 2018 compared to 360 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 99% to 94%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 13.9:1 in 2018 to 11.7:1 today.

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