Lakewood High School

Located at 9331 Lancer Rd, in Hebron, Ohio, Lakewood High School is an intimate 9-12 campus that teaches 450 students (grades 9 through 12), operated by Lakewood Local. Enrollment runs roughly 20% below the state mean of about 565.

Lakewood High School is one of 4 schools operated by Lakewood Local, a district that instructs 1,645 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Lakewood High School lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (90%). The remainder consists of 5% multiracial, 3% Hispanic.

On the resource side, The school lists 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.7:1, putting Lakewood High School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 47% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Lakewood High School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 71.2%; this one comes in at 59.8%, -11.4 points off the demographic line.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Licking County put median household income runs about $84,426, 29% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Licking County runs 63 public schools (combined enrollment of about 29,815 students), of which Lakewood High School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Jackson Intermediate, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around Lakewood High School. On composite proficiency, Lakewood High School comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 70.6%.

The school occupies a low-density site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Lakewood High School's enrollment has edged down 21% since 2018, when it stood at 569 (now 450). The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 13.6:1 today.

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