Norwayne High School

As a modestly sized secondary school in Creston, Ohio, Norwayne High School enrolls 415 students from grades 9 through 12, run under Norwayne Local. That puts it 27% below the typical public school in Ohio, which averages around 565 students.

Norwayne Local comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 1,264 students; Norwayne High School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Norwayne High School lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (94%); the rest breaks down as 3% multiracial, 2% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.2:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.7:1, putting Norwayne High School higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 49% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Norwayne High School ranks in the top 10% of Ohio public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 70.3%; Norwayne High School posts 81.3%, +10.9 points above that line.

Around the school, Wayne County reports that median household earnings sit near $73,574, roughly 25% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Wayne County runs 45 public schools (combined enrollment of about 14,479 students), of which Norwayne High School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Norwayne Middle School, around 0.0 miles off. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Norwayne High School comes 2nd of 4 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 77.3%.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

Five-year trend. Norwayne High School's enrollment has declined 4% since 2018, when it stood at 431 (now 415).

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