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Enrollment
549
High
DISTRICT 279 · STATE 565
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LIBERTY-BENTON LOCAL·NCES 390474402895
Liberty-Benton High School
9190 County Road 9, Findlay, OH 45840 · (419) 424-5351 · Hancock County
GRADES 09–12HIGH41-RURALREGULAR SCHOOL549 STUDENTS
A-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 80% of Ohio public high schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- CThree-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
19.7:1
28 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 19.7:1 · STATE 17.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
21%
115 students
DISTRICT 23% · 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 | 108 | 20% |
| Grade 10 | 106 | 19% |
| Grade 11 | 157 | 29% |
| Grade 12 | 178 | 32% |
Student demographics
26%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 22% · 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
School pathway
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Liberty-Benton Local. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
Ohio's State Tests 2024-25 . % Proficient or AboveEnglish Language Arts
80.2%
OH avg 59.8% . -1.5pp since 2021
Math
77.0%
OH avg 56.1% . +3.5pp since 2021
What 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.
Ohio's State Tests results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 80.2% | 77.0% |
| 2023-24 | 84.0% | 67.7% |
| 2022-23 | 80.0% | 70.8% |
| 2021-22 | 81.7% | 73.5% |
% 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
82.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
80.9%
based on OH schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+1.4pp
above demographic expectation
What 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%.
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 Liberty-Benton High School
Liberty-Benton High School's state test result (82.2% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Liberty-Benton High School this school | 549 | 20.9% | 82.2% |
| Ottawa-Glandorf High School Ottawa | 595 | 18.3% | 79.9% |
| Buckeye Valley Local High School Delaware | 597 | 23.1% | 82.4% |
| Johnstown High School Johnstown | 488 | 19.7% | 71.4% |
| Garaway High School Sugarcreek | 441 | 28.8% | 78.5% |
| Poland Seminary High School Poland | 773 | 18.6% | 77.0% |
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 Liberty-Benton High School ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In Ohio | In Hancock County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 82.2% | #68 of 403 | #1 of 7 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 77.0% | #71 of 776 ▲ 58 | #1 of 8 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 80.2% | #120 of 774 ▼ 30 | #2 of 8 ▼ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +1.0pp | #497 of 742 | #6 of 8 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 549 | #340 of 888 | #2 of 10 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 19.7:1 | #591 of 739 | #6 of 7 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 25.5% | #352 of 749 | #3 of 8 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 20.9% | #372 of 435 | #7 of 7 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +19.6% | #50 of 198 | N/A |
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
549
+11 (+2%) vs 2020
+54% since 1990-91, when it was 356
Student : Teacher
19.7:1
was 21.5:1
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 | 549 | 27.9 | 19.7:1 | 21% (115) |
| 2023-24 | 543 | 27.3 | 19.9:1 | 23% (125) |
| 2022-23 | 520 | 26.3 | 19.8:1 | 14% (75) |
| 2020-21 | 538 | 25 | 21.5:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 459 | 25.3 | 18.1:1 | 15% (68) |
| 2015-16 | 452 | 23 | 19.6:1 | 13% (58) |
| 2010-11 | 420 | 22 | 19.1:1 | 15% (65) |
| 2000-01 | 399 | 26 | 15.3:1 | 3% (10) |
| 1990-91 | 356 | 26 | 13.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Liberty-Benton High School.
Since 2017-18: students up 20% (459 to 549); teachers up 10% (25.3 to 27.9).
About Liberty-Benton High School
At 9190 County Road 9 in Findlay, Ohio, Liberty-Benton High School operates as a mid-sized high school. The school has 549 students in 2024-25 across grades 9 through 12.
District-wide, Liberty-Benton Local has 4 schools and 1,640 students.
The share of students at Liberty-Benton High School who are White is 86%. Other groups include 9% Hispanic and 2% multiracial. Hancock County residents are about 89% White, a similar share. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 26, compared with 70 nationally.
With 27.9 full-time-equivalent teachers, the student-to-teacher ratio is about 19.7:1. High schools in Ohio have an average ratio of 17.7:1. Student poverty is often measured by lunch eligibility; at Liberty-Benton High School, 21% qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. For comparison, public schools in Hancock County average 47%.
On the allk12 Grade, Liberty-Benton High School lands at A-, ahead of 80% of Ohio public high schools.
Schools in Ohio with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to score about 80.9%. Liberty-Benton High School scores 82.2%.
In the surrounding county, Hancock County, the median household earns about $73,141 a year, 30% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting Liberty-Benton High School, Hancock County has 37 public schools.
Liberty-Benton High School is less than a tenth of a mile from Liberty-Benton Eagle Academy, its nearest public school. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Among its closest neighbors with test data, Liberty-Benton High School is 2nd of 6 on proficiency.
Federal records code the school's setting as Rural: Fringe.
The school's size has been steady, with 538 students in 2020-21 and 549 in 2024-25. There were fewer students per teacher in 2024-25 (19.7:1) than in 2020-21 (21.5:1).
People can post here about homework, tutoring, and testing dates and other school topics. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Hancock County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
74,866
Census ACS
Median income
$73,141
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
30%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
37
11,975 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Liberty-Benton Local
- Liberty-Benton Elementary SchoolElementary · 620 students
- Liberty-Benton Middle SchoolMiddle · 462 students
- Liberty-Benton Eagle AcademyHigh · 9 students
Other schools in Findlay
- 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
Nearby schools
- 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
Frequently asked questions
About Liberty-Benton High SchoolHow many students attend Liberty-Benton High School?
Liberty-Benton High School enrolls approximately 549 students in grades 09-12.
What grades does Liberty-Benton High School serve?
Liberty-Benton High School serves grades 09-12.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Liberty-Benton High School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Liberty-Benton High School is approximately 19.7:1 (28 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Liberty-Benton High School?
Liberty-Benton High School reports a student body of 86% White, 9% Hispanic, 1% Black, 2% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Is Liberty-Benton High School public or private?
Liberty-Benton High School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Liberty-Benton Local.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.