Johnstown High School

Johnstown High School is a high school of middle-of-the-pack scale in Johnstown, Ohio, run under Johnstown-Monroe Local, teacheing 488 students in grades 9 through 12.

Within Johnstown-Monroe Local, which oversees 4 schools and 1,656 students, Johnstown High School is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Johnstown High School logs that 87% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder comes out to 6% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Licking County as a whole.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school lists 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.4:1. The state averages about 17.7:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 20% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is below Licking County's rate of about 43%.

After controlling for student poverty, Johnstown High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 81.4%, the actual is 71.4%, a residual of -10.0 points.

Zooming out to the county, Licking County reports that the typical household earns roughly $84,426 per year, about 29% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Licking County runs 63 public schools (combined enrollment of about 29,815 students), of which Johnstown High School is one.

The closest other public school is Johnstown Middle School, roughly 0.1 miles away. Within five miles, there are 6 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Johnstown High School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 75.3%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 7%: 456 students in 2018 compared to 488 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share edged down from 93% to 87%.

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