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Monroe High School
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Ohio's State Tests 2024-25 . % Proficient or AboveWhat 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 54 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 1 points since 2021, while math scores are down about 2 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 74% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 76% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Monroe High School
Monroe High School is a sizable senior high in Monroe, Ohio, part of Monroe Local. The school instructs 871 students in grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Ohio's public schools average about 565 students each, so Monroe High School sits 54% above that benchmark.
Monroe Local runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 2,925 students. Monroe High School is one of those campuses.
For racial and ethnic makeup, Monroe High School shows that the largest single group is White, at 76% of enrollment. The remainder reads as 10% Hispanic, 6% Black, 5% multiracial, 4% Asian. That composition is broadly in line with Butler County as a whole.
On the resource side, On paper, Monroe High School has 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 21.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.7:1, putting Monroe High School higher than the state norm the norm. Around 35% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.
With demographic context factored in, Monroe High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 75.6%; this one delivers 73.9%.
In the area at large, Butler County reports that median household income runs about $81,590, roughly 33% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Monroe High School is one of 90 public schools in Butler County (combined enrollment of about 59,107 students).
Monroe 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.
The school occupies a bedroom-community site.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 19%: 729 students in 2018 compared to 871 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 83% to 76% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 19.3:1 in 2018 to 21.2:1 today.
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