Marion L Steele High School

Marion L Steele High School is one of the big secondary schools in Amherst, Ohio, operated by Amherst Exempted Village, with 1,014 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 79% above the state mean of about 565.

Across the 4 schools in Amherst Exempted Village (3,533 students total), Marion L Steele High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Marion L Steele High School shows that 76% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder consists of 14% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 3% Black, 2% Asian. Compared to Lorain County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 53 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.7:1 average. An estimated 34% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, Marion L Steele High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 75.9%, the actual is 77.0%, a residual of +1.1 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Lorain County indicate the typical household earns roughly $73,347 per year, 29% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Lorain County's 92 public schools (combined enrollment of about 42,516 students), Marion L Steele High School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Walter G. Nord Middle School, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Marion L Steele High School. Among the 4 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Marion L Steele High School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 74.0%.

Marion L Steele High School operates from a suburban location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Marion L Steele High School has contracted 18%, going from 1,239 students in 2018 to 1,014 in 2025.

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