Hopewell-Loudon Local High School

Located at 181 N County Road 7, in Bascom, Ohio, Hopewell-Loudon Local High School is a cozy senior high that instructs 366 students (grades 7 through 12), operated by Hopewell-Loudon Local. Compared to the state average of about 565 students per school, that is 35% below typical.

Hopewell-Loudon Local runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 763 students. Hopewell-Loudon Local High School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Hopewell-Loudon Local High School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (89%). Beyond that, the school shows 7% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Seneca County as a whole.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 74% of students at Hopewell-Loudon Local High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Seneca County's rate of about 59%.

With demographic context factored in, Hopewell-Loudon Local High School ranks in the top 10% of Ohio public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 60.8%; Hopewell-Loudon Local High School posts 77.7%, +16.8 points above that line.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Seneca County put the typical household earns roughly $66,025 per year, roughly 21% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Seneca County's 19 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,331 students), Hopewell-Loudon Local High School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Hopewell-Loudon Local Elementary School, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Hopewell-Loudon Local High School.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 13%: 419 students in 2018 compared to 366 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 21.6:1 in 2018 to 20.6:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the feed for Hopewell-Loudon Local High School typically covers science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.