Perry High School

Perry High School, a reasonably sized high school in Perry, Ohio, one of the schools within Perry Local, teaches 509 students, covering grades 9 through 12.

Perry Local comprises 12 schools with combined enrollment of 6,638 students; Perry High School is among them.

Demographically, Perry High School logs that nearly all students (81%) are White. Other groups include 13% Hispanic, 3% multiracial, 2% Black.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 17.7:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 28% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is below Lake County's rate of about 39%.

With demographic context factored in, Perry High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 78.2%, the actual is 79.8%, a residual of +1.6 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Lake County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $80,925 per year, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, Lake County runs 65 public schools (combined enrollment of about 27,899 students), of which Perry High School is one.

Perry Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Perry High School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 68.4%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Perry High School has contracted 18%, going from 618 students in 2018 to 509 in 2025.

On the community side, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.