Olentangy Berlin High School

Located at 3140 Berlin Station Rd, in Delaware, Ohio, Olentangy Berlin High School is a sprawling high school that caters to 1,823 students (grades 9 through 12), one of the schools within Olentangy Local. By comparison, Ohio's public schools average about 565 students each, so Olentangy Berlin High School sits 223% bigger than that benchmark.

Within Olentangy Local, which oversees 29 schools and 24,133 students, Olentangy Berlin High School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Olentangy Berlin High School reports that White students make up the majority at 69%. Other groups include 15% Asian, 6% Black, 5% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. By comparison, Delaware County as a whole is about 80% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Olentangy Berlin High School has 80 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 22.8:1. The state averages around 17.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 11% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Delaware County runs at roughly 20%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Olentangy Berlin High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 84.7%, the actual is 86.6%, a residual of +1.9 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Delaware County) records that median household income runs about $133,540, 59% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 3%. Across Delaware County's 59 public schools (combined enrollment of about 44,100 students), Olentangy Berlin High School is one campus in the mix.

Olentangy Berlin Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Olentangy Berlin High School at 3rd of 5; the average score across the group is 85.9%.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

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