Jackson High School

Jackson High School is a substantial 9-12 campus in Massillon, Ohio, overseen by Jackson Local. The school educates 1,881 students in grades 9 through 12. That puts it 233% above the typical public school in Ohio, which averages around 565 students.

Jackson High School is one of 6 schools operated by Jackson Local, a district that enrolls 5,741 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Jackson High School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (83%); the rest reads as 5% multiracial, 4% Asian, 4% Hispanic, 3% Black. That composition is broadly in line with Stark County as a whole.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 92 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.7:1 average. An estimated 21% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Stark County (around 36%), the school's rate is south of typical.

With demographic context factored in, Jackson High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 80.7%, the actual is 77.3%, a residual of -3.3 points.

Around the school, Stark County reports that the typical household earns roughly $67,934 per year, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Jackson High School is one of 101 public schools in Stark County (combined enrollment of about 53,798 students).

Jackson Memorial Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Jackson High School. On composite proficiency, Jackson High School comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 83.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Jackson High School has declined 5%, going from 1,971 students in 2018 to 1,881 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 88% to 83% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 22.2:1 in 2018 to 20.5:1 in 2025.

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