Mathews High School

Mathews High School is an one-room-style secondary school in Vienna, Ohio, run under Mathews Local. The school teaches 175 students in grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 69% leaner than the state mean of about 565.

Mathews Local comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 581 students; Mathews High School is among them.

On demographics, Mathews High School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (96%). The remainder breaks down as 2% multiracial. By comparison, Trumbull County as a whole is about 85% White, so the school skews considerably more White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 8.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 46% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Trumbull County (around 55%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Mathews High School is in the bottom 10% of Ohio public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 71.5%; Mathews High School posts 60.6%, -10.9 points below that line.

In the broader community, Trumbull County reports that the typical household earns roughly $56,435 per year, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. In all, Trumbull County runs 72 public schools (combined enrollment of about 25,240 students), of which Mathews High School is one.

Mathews Junior High School 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. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Mathews High School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 72.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Mathews High School has contracted 9%, going from 193 students in 2018 to 175 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 11.3:1 in 2018 to 8.6:1 in 2025.

On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.