Mechanicsburg High School

Mechanicsburg High School, a close-knit senior high in Mechanicsburg, Ohio, overseen by Mechanicsburg Exempted Village, hosts 266 students, covering grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 53% below the state mean of about 565.

Mechanicsburg Exempted Village runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 827 students. Mechanicsburg High School is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Mechanicsburg High School lists that 94% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest breaks down as 4% multiracial. Compared to Champaign County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.7:1 average. About 99% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Champaign County runs at roughly 57%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Mechanicsburg High School sits in the top 10% of Ohio schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 51.5%; actual is 75.0%, +23.5 points clear of the demographic baseline.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Champaign County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $75,556 per year, about 19% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Mechanicsburg High School is one of 15 public schools in Champaign County (combined enrollment of about 6,135 students).

The closest other public school is Dohron Wilson Elementary School, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Mechanicsburg High School. On composite proficiency, Mechanicsburg High School comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 63.0%.

Mechanicsburg High School operates from a small-town location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Mechanicsburg High School's enrollment has rose 5% since 2018, when it stood at 253 (now 266).

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