Northwest High School

Northwest High School is one of the sprawling 9-12 campuss in Cincinnati, Ohio, operated by Northwest Local, with 910 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Ohio's public schools average about 565 students each, so Northwest High School sits 61% bigger than that benchmark.

Northwest High School is one of 19 schools operated by Northwest Local, a district that works with 11,022 students overall.

Demographically, Northwest High School records that the largest single group is Black at 42%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school logs 30% White, 12% Hispanic, 12% multiracial, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 24% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 22.7:1. The state averages around 17.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 60% of students at Northwest High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Hamilton County's rate of about 34%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Northwest High School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 66.3%; actual is 43.6%, a gap of -22.8 points.

Across the wider county, Hamilton County reports that median household earnings sit near $72,470, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Hamilton County runs 212 public schools (combined enrollment of about 111,403 students), of which Northwest High School is one.

Hamilton Cnty Math & Science is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

Northwest High School operates from an outer-ring location.

Over the past 7-year window. Northwest High School's enrollment has grew 3% since 2018, when it stood at 885 (now 910). Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 39% to 30%.

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