NCS Digital
Virtual schools are not graded, because they enroll students from across the state rather than a local area. How grades work
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 1 | 1 | 0% |
| Grade 2 | 7 | 3% |
| Grade 3 | 5 | 2% |
| Grade 4 | 10 | 4% |
| Grade 5 | 7 | 3% |
| Grade 6 | 13 | 5% |
| Grade 7 | 12 | 5% |
| Grade 8 | 26 | 10% |
| Grade 9 | 28 | 11% |
| Grade 10 | 54 | 22% |
| Grade 11 | 41 | 16% |
| Grade 12 | 45 | 18% |
Test scores
Ohio's State Tests 2024-25 . % Proficient or AboveWhat this means: On the Ohio's State Tests, Ohio's statewide test, about 40 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 21 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 11 points.
Ohio's State Tests results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 40.3% | 21.0% |
| 2023-24 | 35.9% | 15.3% |
| 2022-23 | 53.1% | 25.4% |
| 2021-22 | 39.1% | 10.1% |
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 249 | 14.5 | 17.2:1 | N/A |
| 2023-24 | 310 | 10.5 | 29.5:1 | N/A |
| 2022-23 | 268 | 11 | 24.4:1 | N/A |
| 2020-21 | 476 | 12 | 39.7:1 | N/A |
About NCS Digital
NCS Digital is a small combined-grade school in Newark, Ohio, administered by Newark City. Enrollment is 249 students in 2024-25, and the school serves grades 1 through 12. The average for combined schools in Ohio is about 712 students, so this school is 65% smaller than average.
NCS Digital is in Newark City, a district with 5,805 students across 14 schools.
NCS Digital enrolls a student body that is 89% White. The school is also 9% multiracial. For comparison, Licking County is about 86% White. The chance that two students picked at random at NCS Digital belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 20%.
Dividing enrollment by its 14.5 full-time-equivalent teachers gives a ratio of about 17.2:1. Among combined schools in Ohio, the typical ratio is 25.8:1.
Among Licking County residents, median household income is about $84,426, roughly 29% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Federal data list 63 public schools in Licking County, with a combined enrollment of about 29,815.
The nearest other public school, Little Learners Preschool, is less than a tenth of a mile away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8.
Its location is classified as Suburb: Small by the National Center for Education Statistics. The school is identified as virtual in federal data.
Reported enrollment: 476 (2020-21) and 249 (2024-25). These figures may describe different sets of grades. The student-to-teacher ratio went down from 39.7:1 to 17.2:1.
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