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Howland High School
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Test scores
Ohio's State Tests 2024-25 . % Proficient or AboveWhat this means: On the Ohio's State Tests, Ohio's statewide test, about 79 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 66 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Ohio schools, those numbers are about 60 and 56. Reading and writing scores are up about 11 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 18 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 77% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 73% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Howland High School
Howland High School, an average-sized secondary school in Warren, Ohio, run under Howland Local, enrolls 696 students, covering grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 565 students per school, that is 23% larger than typical.
Howland Local comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 2,283 students; Howland High School is among them.
Demographically, Howland High School shows that 84% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school lists 7% multiracial, 5% Hispanic, 3% Black. That composition is broadly in line with Trumbull County as a whole.
On the resource side, Staff filings list 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.9:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.7:1, putting Howland High School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 42% of students at Howland High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Trumbull County runs at roughly 55%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, Howland High School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 73.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 76.7%.
Around the school, ACS estimates for Trumbull County put the typical household earns roughly $56,435 per year, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. Across Trumbull County's 72 public schools (combined enrollment of about 25,240 students), Howland High School is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is Howland Middle School, roughly 0.3 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.
Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.
Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 16%: 827 students in 2018 compared to 696 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 89% to 84% across the same window.
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