Orrville High School

Orrville High School operates as a close-knit 9-12 campus in Orrville, Ohio, operated by Orrville City. Current enrollment sits at 416 students spanning grades 8 through 12. That puts it 26% smaller than the typical public school in Ohio, which averages around 565 students.

Within Orrville City, which oversees 4 schools and 1,432 students, Orrville High School is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Orrville High School records that the largest single group is White, at 70% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school logs 17% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 4% Black. By comparison, Wayne County as a whole is about 93% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Orrville High School shows 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.2:1. The state averages about 17.7:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 62% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Wayne County (around 49%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Orrville High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 65.5%, the actual is 68.8%, a residual of +3.4 points.

Zooming out to the county, Wayne County reports that the typical household earns roughly $73,574 per year, about 25% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Orrville High School is one of 45 public schools in Wayne County (combined enrollment of about 14,479 students).

Orrville Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Orrville High School comes 4th of 5 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 75.5%.

Orrville High School operates from a small-town location.

Five-year trend. Orrville High School's enrollment has climbed 6% since 2018, when it stood at 393 (now 416). Over the same period, the Hispanic share climbed from 6% to 17%. Class-load math has loosened: from 16.4:1 in 2018 to 18.2:1 in 2025.

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