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Kings 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 72 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 6 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 11 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 79% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 82% 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 Kings High School
Kings High School, a substantial secondary school in Kings Mills, Ohio, operated by Kings Local, works with 1,457 students, covering grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Ohio's public schools average about 565 students each, so Kings High School sits 158% bigger than that benchmark.
Kings Local comprises 7 schools with combined enrollment of 5,073 students; Kings High School is among them.
On demographics, Kings High School reports that the largest single group is White, at 78% of enrollment. Other groups include 7% Asian, 7% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 3% Black.
On the income-and-resources front, Kings High School reports 54 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 27.0:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.7:1 average. Roughly 19% of students at Kings High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.
With demographic context factored in, Kings High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 81.6%, the actual is 78.9%, a residual of -2.8 points.
In the broader community, ACS estimates for Warren County put the typical household earns roughly $110,132 per year, about 46% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Warren County's 45 public schools (combined enrollment of about 39,898 students), Kings High School is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: Kings Junior High School, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Kings High School. On composite proficiency, Kings High School comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 83.9%.
Kings High School operates from a bedroom-community location.
Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 13%: 1,295 students in 2018 compared to 1,457 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 88% to 78% over that span. Class-load math has grew: from 20.1:1 in 2018 to 27.0:1 in 2025.
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Warren County at a glance
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- Columbia Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 809 students
- J F Burns Elementary SchoolElementary · 807 students
- Kings Junior High SchoolMiddle · 730 students
- Kings Mills Elementary SchoolElementary · 567 students
- South Lebanon Elementary SchoolElementary · 523 students
- Kings Mills Educational CenterElementary · 180 students
- Columbia Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 809 students
- J F Burns Elementary SchoolElementary · 807 students
- Kings Junior High SchoolMiddle · 730 students
- Kings Mills Elementary SchoolElementary · 567 students
- Kings Mills Educational CenterElementary · 180 students
- Kings Junior High School0.1 mi · 730
- Kings Mills Educational Center0.4 mi · 180
- Kings Mills Elementary School0.5 mi · 567
- South Lebanon Elementary School1.8 mi · 523
- William Mason High School2.8 mi · 3,435
- Mason Middle School2.9 mi · 1,637