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Enrollment
2,968
High
DISTRICT 1,931 · STATE 565
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LAKOTA LOCAL·NCES 390461102438
Lakota West High School
8940 Union Centre Blvd, West Chester, OH 45069 · (513) 874-5699 · Butler County
GRADES 09–12HIGH21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL2,968 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 75% of Ohio public high schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- A-Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Ohio public high schools
Student : Teacher
28.1:1
106 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 25.6:1 · STATE 17.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
31%
907 students
DISTRICT 36% · STATE 43%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 716 | 24% |
| Grade 10 | 744 | 25% |
| Grade 11 | 733 | 25% |
| Grade 12 | 775 | 26% |
Student demographics
65%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 62% · STATE 54% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
Ohio's State Tests 2024-25 . % Proficient or AboveEnglish Language Arts
76.8%
OH avg 59.8% . +3.2pp since 2021
Math
64.9%
OH avg 56.1% . +12.2pp since 2021
What this means: On the Ohio's State Tests, Ohio's statewide test, about 77 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 65 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 3 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 12 points.
Ohio's State Tests results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 76.8% | 64.9% |
| 2023-24 | 73.6% | 59.3% |
| 2022-23 | 73.4% | 53.8% |
| 2021-22 | 73.6% | 52.8% |
% Proficient or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Ohio's State Tests. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
75.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
77.3%
based on OH schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-2.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 75% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 77% 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Lakota West High School
Lakota West High School's state test result (75.2% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lakota West High School this school | 2,968 | 30.6% | 75.2% |
| Hilliard Bradley High School Hilliard | 1,712 | 37.3% | 71.8% |
| Hilliard Darby High School Hilliard | 1,674 | 34.2% | 70.3% |
| Lakota East High School Liberty Township | 2,660 | 25.2% | 75.9% |
| New Albany High School New Albany | 1,601 | 22.5% | 85.2% |
| Hilliard Davidson High School Hilliard | 1,847 | 31.6% | 74.7% |
Matched among Ohio high schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Lakota West High School ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In Ohio | In Butler County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 75.2% | #149 of 403 | #4 of 9 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 64.9% | #175 of 776 ▲ 43 | #4 of 14 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 76.8% | #185 of 774 ▲ 57 | #4 of 13 ▲ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +7.7pp | #190 of 742 | #2 of 12 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 2,968 | #2 of 888 | #1 of 19 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 28.1:1 | #719 of 739 | #13 of 13 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 65.2% | #59 of 749 | #4 of 14 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 30.6% | #317 of 435 | #9 of 11 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +23.8% | #40 of 198 | #3 of 9 |
Ranked against other public high schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
2,968
+404 (+16%) vs 2020
+27% since 1990-91, when it was 2,332
Student : Teacher
28.1:1
was 22.9:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 2,968 | 105.5 | 28.1:1 | 31% (907) |
| 2023-24 | 2,845 | 98.8 | 28.8:1 | 29% (813) |
| 2022-23 | 2,740 | 110.2 | 24.9:1 | 22% (613) |
| 2020-21 | 2,564 | 112 | 22.9:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 2,397 | 110.8 | 21.6:1 | 17% (411) |
| 2015-16 | 2,332 | 100 | 23.3:1 | 17% (399) |
| 2010-11 | 2,690 | 122 | 22.1:1 | 14% (371) |
| 2000-01 | 1,652 | 90 | 18.4:1 | 0% (4) |
| 1990-91 | 2,332 | 114 | 20.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Lakota West High School.
Since 2017-18: students up 24% (2,397 to 2,968); teachers down 5% (110.8 to 105.5).
About Lakota West High School
Lakota West High School is a high school in West Chester, Ohio, according to federal school records. Total enrollment is 2,968 students, and the grades served are 9 through 12. By comparison, high schools in Ohio enroll about 565 students on average.
Lakota West High School is one school in a 22-school district, Lakota Local, which enrolls 17,853 students.
More than half of the students at Lakota West High School are White (54%). Next come 16% Black, 13% Hispanic, 12% Asian, and 5% multiracial. That compares with about 76% White among all Butler County residents. The diversity index for Lakota West High School is 65%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Lakota West High School has 105.5 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff and a student-to-teacher ratio of 28.1:1. By comparison, the average for high schools in Ohio is 17.7:1. At Lakota West High School, 31% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. That is 11 points below the 42% average for public schools in Butler County.
On the allk12 Grade, Lakota West High School lands at A-, ahead of 75% of Ohio public high schools.
Lakota West High School's actual average proficiency rate across its state test results (75.2%) and its predicted rate (77.3%) put it outside the top and bottom 10% of Ohio schools.
The school's county is Butler County. According to Census Bureau estimates, median household income comes to about $81,590, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 33%, and roughly 8% of residents are in poverty. There are 90 public schools in the county, enrolling about 59,107, Lakota West High School among them.
The closest school to Lakota West High School is Freedom Elementary School, located about 1.0 miles away. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. Lakota West High School's average proficiency of 75.2% compares with 68.3% for its nearest scored neighbors.
For locale, NCES codes Lakota West High School as Suburb: Large.
The school's enrollment rose 16% from 2020-21 to 2024-25. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 22.9:1; by 2024-25 it was 28.1:1.
The allk12 page for Lakota West High School lets the school community talk about pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. You can also rate the school on this page.
Butler County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
392,876
Census ACS
Median income
$81,590
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
33%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
90
59,107 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Lakota Local
- Lakota East High SchoolHigh · 2,660 students
- Cherokee Elementary SchoolElementary · 791 students
- Lakota Plains Junior SchoolMiddle · 745 students
- Endeavor Elementary SchoolElementary · 740 students
- Hopewell Early Childhood SchoolElementary · 727 students
- Creekside Early Childhood SchoolElementary · 720 students
Other schools in West Chester
- Hopewell Early Childhood SchoolElementary · 727 students
- Creekside Early Childhood SchoolElementary · 720 students
- Lakota Ridge Junior SchoolMiddle · 695 students
- Adena Elementary SchoolElementary · 690 students
- Freedom Elementary SchoolElementary · 682 students
- Union Elementary SchoolElementary · 682 students
Nearby schools
- Freedom Elementary School1.0 mi · 682
- Lakota Ridge Junior School1.2 mi · 695
- Butler Tech Bioscience Center1.9 mi · 208
- Union Elementary School2.2 mi · 682
- Creekside Early Childhood School2.5 mi · 720
- Lakota Central2.5 mi · 164
Frequently asked questions
About Lakota West High SchoolHow large is Lakota West High School?
Lakota West High School enrolls approximately 2,968 students in grades 09-12.
Is Lakota West High School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Lakota West High School is a high school covering grades 09-12.
How many teachers does Lakota West High School have?
Lakota West High School employs 106 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 28.1:1.
How diverse is Lakota West High School?
Lakota West High School reports a student body of 54% White, 13% Hispanic, 16% Black, 12% Asian, 5% Two or more.
What district is Lakota West High School in?
Lakota West High School is part of Lakota Local.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.