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New Albany High School
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Test scores
Ohio's State Tests 2024-25 . % Proficient or AboveWhat this means: On the Ohio's State Tests, Ohio's statewide test, about 88 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 76 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Ohio schools, those numbers are about 60 and 56. Reading and writing scores are up about 1 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 8 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 85% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 80% 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 New Albany High School
New Albany High School is a senior high of large scale in New Albany, Ohio, operated by New Albany-Plain Local, serveing 1,601 students in grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 565 students per school, that is 183% above typical.
New Albany-Plain Local runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 4,991 students. New Albany High School is one of those campuses.
On the student-mix side, New Albany High School records that 64% of the student body identifies as White; the rest comes out to 12% Black, 10% Asian, 7% Hispanic, 7% multiracial.
Looking at the economic backdrop, New Albany High School shows 100 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.7:1, putting New Albany High School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 22% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably below Franklin County's rate of about 41%.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, New Albany High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 80.3%, the actual is 85.2%, a residual of +4.8 points.
In the area at large, census data for Franklin County shows median household earnings sit near $75,176, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Franklin County's 402 public schools (combined enrollment of about 195,359 students), New Albany High School is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: New Albany Middle School, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around New Albany High School. On composite proficiency, New Albany High School comes 3rd of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 82.7%.
The school occupies an outer-ring site.
Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count changed only slightly: 1,574 students in 2018 compared to 1,601 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 70% to 64% across the same window.
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- New Albany Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 1,134 students
- New Albany Primary SchoolElementary · 981 students
- New Albany Middle SchoolMiddle · 768 students
- New Albany Early Learning CenterElementary · 507 students
- New Albany Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 1,134 students
- New Albany Primary SchoolElementary · 981 students
- New Albany Middle SchoolMiddle · 768 students
- New Albany Early Learning CenterElementary · 507 students
- New Albany Middle School0.2 mi · 768
- New Albany Intermediate School0.2 mi · 1,134
- New Albany Primary School0.3 mi · 981
- New Albany Early Learning Center0.4 mi · 507
- Cornerstone Academy Community School2.0 mi · 1,192
- High Point Elementary School3.9 mi · 555