Holgate High School

Holgate High School, a tiny senior high in Holgate, Ohio, run under Holgate Local, teaches 216 students, covering grades 6 through 12. That puts it 62% below the typical public school in Ohio, which averages around 565 students.

Across the 2 schools in Holgate Local (378 students total), Holgate High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Holgate High School reports that 74% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 25% Hispanic. By comparison, Henry County as a whole is about 90% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.4:1. The state averages around 17.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 65% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Holgate High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 64.2%, the actual is 64.8%, a residual of +0.7 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Henry County put median household income runs about $80,099, roughly 20% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Henry County runs 11 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,839 students), of which Holgate High School is one.

Holgate 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. On composite proficiency, Holgate High School comes 5th of 5 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 74.4%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 8%: 235 students in 2018 compared to 216 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 88% to 74% over that span.

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