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Kenston 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 85 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 82 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Ohio schools, those numbers are about 60 and 56. Reading and writing scores are down about 10 points since 2021, while math scores are down about 1 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 86% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 84% 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 Kenston High School
Kenston High School operates as a big secondary school in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, operated by Kenston Local. Current enrollment sits at 970 students spanning grades 8 through 12. That puts it 72% bigger than the typical public school in Ohio, which averages around 565 students.
Across the 4 schools in Kenston Local (2,912 students total), Kenston High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
On demographics, Kenston High School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (87%). Beyond that, the school lists 4% Black, 4% Hispanic, 4% multiracial.
On the resource side, On paper, Kenston High School has 52 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.8:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.7:1 average. An estimated 13% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.
After controlling for student poverty, Kenston High School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 84.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 86.4%.
In the broader community, ACS estimates for Geauga County put median household earnings sit near $107,860, about 41% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Geauga County's 23 public schools (combined enrollment of about 9,939 students), Kenston High School is one campus in the mix.
Kenston Intermediate School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Kenston High School ranks 7th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 93.1%.
The school occupies a rural site.
Five-year trend. Kenston High School's enrollment has showed little movement since 2018, when it stood at 975 (now 970). The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 15.2:1 in 2018 to 18.8:1 today.
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