Parkway High School

Parkway High School operates as a close-knit high school in Rockford, Ohio, run under Parkway Local. Current enrollment sits at 306 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 46% smaller than the state mean of about 565.

Parkway Local comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 974 students; Parkway High School is among them.

Looking at the student body, Parkway High School shows that 94% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest breaks down as 3% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.7:1 average. Around 99% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Mercer County (around 37%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Parkway High School sits in the top 10% of Ohio schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 51.4%; actual is 73.3%, +21.9 points clear of the demographic baseline.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Mercer County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $76,782 per year, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Mercer County runs 22 public schools (combined enrollment of about 9,242 students), of which Parkway High School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Parkway Elementary School, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Parkway High School at 1st of 4; the average score across the group is 67.5%.

Parkway High School operates from a rural location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Parkway High School's enrollment has climbed 15% since 2018, when it stood at 267 (now 306). White enrollment moved from 98% to 94% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 14.5:1 in 2018 to 16.6:1 today.

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