Old Fort High School

Old Fort High School operates as a compact secondary school in Tiffin, Ohio, part of Old Fort Local. Current enrollment sits at 264 students spanning grades 7 through 12. By comparison, Ohio's public schools average about 565 students each, so Old Fort High School sits 53% below that benchmark.

Across the 2 schools in Old Fort Local (644 students total), Old Fort High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Old Fort High School records that nearly all students (88%) are White. The remainder breaks down as 8% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 36% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Seneca County runs at roughly 59%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Old Fort High School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 75.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 72.9%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Seneca County) shows that median household earnings sit near $66,025, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Seneca County runs 19 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,331 students), of which Old Fort High School is one.

Old Fort Elementary School Bettsville Campus is the nearest neighboring public school, about 4.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Old Fort High School has fell 16%, going from 316 students in 2018 to 264 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share decreased from 93% to 88%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 14.6:1 in 2018 to 12.8:1 in 2025.

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