Olentangy Liberty High School

Olentangy Liberty High School is one of the roomy 9-12 campuss in Powell, Ohio, run under Olentangy Local, with 1,847 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. That puts it 227% above the typical public school in Ohio, which averages around 565 students.

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

On the student-mix side, Olentangy Liberty High School logs that White students make up the majority at 71%. Other groups include 17% Asian, 5% multiracial, 4% Hispanic, 3% Black. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 80%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 87 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 9% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Delaware County (around 20%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Olentangy Liberty High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 85.6%, the actual is 89.7%, a residual of +4.2 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Delaware County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $133,540 per year, roughly 59% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 3% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Delaware County runs 59 public schools (combined enrollment of about 44,100 students), of which Olentangy Liberty High School is one.

The closest other public school is Indian Springs Elementary, roughly 0.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Olentangy Liberty High School. On composite proficiency, Olentangy Liberty High School comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 88.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 16%: 2,197 students in 2018 compared to 1,847 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 83% to 71% over that span.

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