North Central Junior/High School

Located at 400 E Baubice St, in Pioneer, Ohio, North Central Junior/High School is a very small high school that works with 208 students (grades 7 through 12), operated by North Central Local. That puts it 63% below the typical public school in Ohio, which averages around 565 students.

Within North Central Local, which oversees 2 schools and 516 students, North Central Junior/High School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, North Central Junior/High School logs that 87% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder consists of 10% Hispanic, 2% Black.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.9:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.7:1, putting North Central Junior/High School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 99% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Williams County runs at roughly 80%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, North Central Junior/High School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 51.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 55.9%.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Williams County put median household earnings sit near $61,048, about 14% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Williams County's 14 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,964 students), North Central Junior/High School is one campus in the mix.

North Central Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Five-year trend. North Central Junior/High School's enrollment has shrank 11% since 2018, when it stood at 233 (now 208). The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 12.9:1 in 2018 to 9.9:1 today.

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