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Liberty-Benton High School
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Ohio's State Tests 2024-25 . % Proficient or AboveWhat this means: On the Ohio's State Tests, Ohio's statewide test, about 80 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 77 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 2 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 4 points.
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Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 82% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 81% 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 Liberty-Benton High School
Liberty-Benton High School is a senior high of middle-of-the-pack scale in Findlay, Ohio, run under Liberty-Benton Local, works with 549 students in grades 9 through 12.
Across the 4 schools in Liberty-Benton Local (1,640 students total), Liberty-Benton High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
In terms of who attends, Liberty-Benton High School records that nearly all students (86%) are White. Other groups include 9% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.
On the income-and-resources front, Liberty-Benton High School records 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.7:1, putting Liberty-Benton High School higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 21% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is south of Hancock County's rate of about 47%.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Liberty-Benton High School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 80.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 82.2%.
Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Hancock County indicate median household earnings sit near $73,141, roughly 30% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Hancock County runs 37 public schools (combined enrollment of about 11,975 students), of which Liberty-Benton High School is one.
Liberty-Benton Eagle Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Liberty-Benton High School at 2nd of 6; the average score across the group is 74.2%.
Liberty-Benton High School operates from a small-town location.
Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Liberty-Benton High School has grew 20%, going from 459 students in 2018 to 549 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 92% to 86%. Class-load math has rose: from 18.1:1 in 2018 to 19.7:1 in 2025.
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Related schools
- Liberty-Benton Elementary SchoolElementary · 620 students
- Liberty-Benton Middle SchoolMiddle · 462 students
- Liberty-Benton Eagle AcademyHigh · 9 students
- Findlay High SchoolHigh · 1,592 students
- Liberty-Benton Elementary SchoolElementary · 620 students
- Glenwood Middle SchoolMiddle · 579 students
- Donnell Middle SchoolMiddle · 522 students
- Liberty-Benton Middle SchoolMiddle · 462 students
- Millstream Career CenterHigh · 455 students
- Liberty-Benton Eagle Academy0.0 mi · 9
- Liberty-Benton Elementary School0.2 mi · 620
- Liberty-Benton Middle School0.2 mi · 462
- Findlay Digital Academy1.7 mi · 230
- Millstream Career Center2.3 mi · 455
- Findlay High School2.4 mi · 1,592