Margaretta High School

As a moderately sized secondary school in Castalia, Ohio, Margaretta High School instructs 536 students from grades 6 through 12, run under Margaretta Local.

Margaretta Local comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 1,072 students; Margaretta High School is among them.

Looking at the student body, Margaretta High School logs that 90% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest is composed of 6% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Erie County as a whole is about 81% White, so the school skews visibly more White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 17.7:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 40% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Margaretta High School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 73.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 64.2%.

Around the school, Erie County reports that median household income runs about $71,993, about 29% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Erie County's 29 public schools (combined enrollment of about 12,434 students), Margaretta High School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Townsend Community School, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Margaretta High School. Among the 4 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Margaretta High School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 72.2%.

The school occupies a rural site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Margaretta High School's enrollment has fell 12% since 2018, when it stood at 611 (now 536).

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