Lakota West High School

Lakota West High School is a large senior high in West Chester, Ohio, one of the schools within Lakota Local. The school enrolls 2,968 students in grades 9 through 12. That puts it 425% above the typical public school in Ohio, which averages around 565 students.

Lakota Local runs 25 schools in total, collectively educating 18,806 students. Lakota West High School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Lakota West High School reports that the most-represented group is White (54%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest looks like 16% Black, 13% Hispanic, 12% Asian, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Butler County as a whole is about 76% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Lakota West High School has 106 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 28.1:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.7:1 average. Around 31% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Butler County runs at roughly 42%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Lakota West High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 77.3%, the actual is 75.2%, a residual of -2.1 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Butler County shows the typical household earns roughly $81,590 per year, about 33% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Lakota West High School is one of 90 public schools in Butler County (combined enrollment of about 59,107 students).

Freedom Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Lakota West High School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 68.3%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Five-year trend. Lakota West High School's enrollment has expanded 24% since 2018, when it stood at 2,397 (now 2,968). Over the same period, the White share shrank from 69% to 54%. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 21.6:1 in 2018 to 28.1:1 today.

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