Olentangy High School

Olentangy High School is a secondary school of sprawling scale in Lewis Center, Ohio, one of the schools within Olentangy Local, serveing 1,760 students in grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Ohio's public schools average about 565 students each, so Olentangy High School sits 212% larger than that benchmark.

Across the 29 schools in Olentangy Local (24,133 students total), Olentangy High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Olentangy High School lists that 64% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school lists 21% Asian, 6% Black, 5% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 80%.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 86 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 20.4:1. 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 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 89.3%, a residual of +4.7 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Delaware County) logs that median household income runs about $133,540, about 59% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 3% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Olentangy High School is one of 59 public schools in Delaware County (combined enrollment of about 44,100 students).

The closest other public school is Heritage Elementary School, roughly 0.3 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Olentangy High School. On composite proficiency, Olentangy High School comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 86.0%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Five-year trend. Olentangy High School's enrollment has decreased 10% since 2018, when it stood at 1,960 (now 1,760). The White share of enrollment shrank from 82% to 64% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 21.7:1 in 2018 to 20.4:1 in 2025.

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