1
Enrollment
1,760
High
DISTRICT 1,842 · STATE 565
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·OLENTANGY LOCAL·NCES 390467602648
Olentangy High School
675 Lewis Center Rd, Lewis Center, OH 43035 · (740) 657-4100 · Delaware County
GRADES 09–12HIGH21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL1,760 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 92% of Ohio public high schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- C+Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Ohio public high schools
Student : Teacher
20.4:1
86 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 21.4:1 · STATE 17.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
11%
192 students
DISTRICT 12% · STATE 43%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 434 | 25% |
| Grade 10 | 444 | 25% |
| Grade 11 | 426 | 24% |
| Grade 12 | 456 | 26% |
Student demographics
54%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 58% · STATE 54% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
Ohio's State Tests 2024-25 . % Proficient or AboveEnglish Language Arts
90.4%
OH avg 59.8% . -0.7pp since 2021
Math
85.1%
OH avg 56.1% . +6.3pp since 2021
What this means: On the Ohio's State Tests, Ohio's statewide test, about 90 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 85 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Ohio schools, those numbers are about 60 and 56. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2021, while math scores are up about 6 points.
Ohio's State Tests results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 90.4% | 85.1% |
| 2023-24 | 86.9% | 84.5% |
| 2022-23 | 88.6% | 79.0% |
| 2021-22 | 91.1% | 78.8% |
% Proficient or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Ohio's State Tests. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
89.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
84.7%
based on OH schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+4.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 89% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 85% typical for Ohio schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Ohio's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Olentangy High School
Olentangy High School's state test result (89.3% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Olentangy High School this school | 1,760 | 10.9% | 89.3% |
| Olentangy Liberty High School Powell | 1,847 | 8.5% | 89.7% |
| Olentangy Berlin High School Delaware | 1,823 | 10.8% | 86.6% |
| Solon High School Solon | 1,519 | 17.6% | 92.3% |
| Orange High School Lewis | 1,936 | 18.9% | 84.3% |
| Sycamore High School Cincinnati | 1,678 | 20.4% | 85.9% |
Matched among Ohio high schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Olentangy High School ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In Ohio | In Delaware County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 89.3% | #23 of 403 | #2 of 9 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 85.1% | #29 of 776 ▼ 2 | #2 of 9 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 90.4% | #22 of 774 ▲ 33 | #1 of 9 ▲ 2 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +2.8pp | #417 of 742 | #4 of 9 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,760 | #37 of 888 | #4 of 10 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 20.4:1 | #624 of 739 | #6 of 10 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 54.3% | #142 of 749 | #4 of 10 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 10.9% | #419 of 435 | #8 of 10 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -10.2% | #285 of 484 | N/A |
Ranked against other public high schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
1,760
+233 (+15%) vs 2020
+202% since 1990-91, when it was 582
Student : Teacher
20.4:1
was 19.6:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 1,760 | 86.3 | 20.4:1 | 11% (192) |
| 2023-24 | 1,721 | 81.3 | 21.2:1 | 10% (177) |
| 2022-23 | 1,688 | 82.2 | 20.5:1 | 6% (104) |
| 2020-21 | 1,527 | 78 | 19.6:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 1,960 | 90.2 | 21.7:1 | 5% (93) |
| 2015-16 | 1,720 | 83 | 20.7:1 | 7% (122) |
| 2010-11 | 1,168 | 72 | 16.2:1 | 8% (91) |
| 2000-01 | 1,418 | 92 | 15.4:1 | 3% (37) |
| 1990-91 | 582 | 37 | 15.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Olentangy High School.
Since 2017-18: students down 10% (1,960 to 1,760); teachers down 4% (90.2 to 86.3).
About Olentangy High School
Olentangy High School is the name of a large high school in Lewis Center, Ohio. The school teaches grades 9 through 12 and enrolls 1,760 students. That puts enrollment 212% bigger than the 565-student average for high schools in Ohio.
Olentangy High School is one of the 29 schools that make up Olentangy Local (24,133 students in total).
About 64% of the student body at Olentangy High School is White. The remaining students are 21% Asian, 6% Black, 5% multiracial, and 4% Hispanic. Among people living in Delaware County, the White share is about 80%. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 54, compared with 70 nationally.
Classroom staffing at Olentangy High School totals 86.3 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 20.4:1. The average for high schools in Ohio, 17.7:1, is lower. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at Olentangy High School is about 11%. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Delaware County is 20%.
Among Ohio public high schools, Olentangy High School outscored 92%, which works out to an A on the allk12 Grade.
Olentangy High School's actual average proficiency rate across its state test results (89.3%) and its predicted rate (84.7%) put it outside the top and bottom 10% of Ohio schools.
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Delaware County show that the median household earns about $133,540 a year, about 59% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 3%. Across Delaware County, 59 public schools serve about 44,100 students.
Among nearby public schools, Heritage Elementary School is closest at about 0.3 miles. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Olentangy High School. By average proficiency, Olentangy High School is 2nd among 7 schools close by.
By NCES locale, the school is Suburb: Large, or in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Since 2020-21, enrollment has grown 15%, from 1,527 to 1,760.
This page collects posts and questions about Olentangy High School, such as open houses, carpools, and field trips. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
Delaware County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
226,834
Census ACS
Median income
$133,540
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
59%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
3%
Below federal line
Schools in county
59
44,100 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Olentangy Local
- Orange High SchoolHigh · 1,936 students
- Olentangy Liberty High SchoolHigh · 1,847 students
- Olentangy Berlin High SchoolHigh · 1,823 students
- Olentangy Orange Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,056 students
- Olentangy Shanahan Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,029 students
- Olentangy Liberty Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,005 students
Other schools in Lewis Center
- Olentangy Orange Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,056 students
- Olentangy Shanahan Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,029 students
- Shale Meadows Elementary SchoolElementary · 724 students
- Alum Creek Elementary SchoolElementary · 664 students
- Glen Oak Elementary SchoolElementary · 654 students
- Oak Creek Elementary SchoolElementary · 649 students
Nearby schools
- Heritage Elementary School0.3 mi · 592
- Olentangy Shanahan Middle School0.5 mi · 1,029
- Olentangy Shanahan Preschool0.5 mi · 188
- Shale Meadows Elementary School1.3 mi · 724
- Arrowhead Elementary School1.4 mi · 648
- Peachblow Crossing Elementary1.5 mi · 648
Frequently asked questions
About Olentangy High SchoolHow many students attend Olentangy High School?
Olentangy High School enrolls approximately 1,760 students in grades 09-12.
Is Olentangy High School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Olentangy High School is a high school covering grades 09-12.
How many teachers does Olentangy High School have?
Olentangy High School employs 86 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 20.4:1.
What is the student diversity at Olentangy High School?
Student demographics at Olentangy High School are roughly 64% White, 4% Hispanic, 6% Black, 21% Asian, 5% Two or more.
What district is Olentangy High School in?
Olentangy High School is part of Olentangy Local.
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