Northmont High School

Set in Clayton, Ohio, Northmont High School is a sprawling high school, overseen by Northmont City. It caters to 1,369 students across grades 7 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 142% above the state mean of about 565.

Northmont City comprises 8 schools with combined enrollment of 4,676 students; Northmont High School is among them.

On demographics, Northmont High School records that 58% of the student body identifies as White; the rest comes out to 28% Black, 7% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. By comparison, Montgomery County as a whole is about 68% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Northmont High School lists 81 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.7:1, putting Northmont High School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 45% of students at Northmont High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, Northmont High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 71.8%, the actual is 69.6%, a residual of -2.2 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Montgomery County put median household earnings sit near $66,139, roughly 31% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Montgomery County runs 160 public schools (combined enrollment of about 74,487 students), of which Northmont High School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Northmont Middle School, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Northmont High School. On composite proficiency, Northmont High School comes 2nd of 5 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 70.7%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 8%: 1,493 students in 2018 compared to 1,369 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 65% to 58% across the same window.

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