Portage Lakes Career Center

Portage Lakes Career Center is one of the micro-enrollment high schools in Uniontown, Ohio, overseen by Portage Lakes, with 130 students on its rolls from grades 11 through 12. By comparison, Ohio's public schools average about 565 students each, so Portage Lakes Career Center sits 77% leaner than that benchmark.

Portage Lakes Career Center is a school of Portage Lakes, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

Demographically, Portage Lakes Career Center reports that 92% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder looks like 5% Black. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 74%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 5.5:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.7:1, putting Portage Lakes Career Center tighter than the state norm the norm.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Summit County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $71,622 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, Summit County runs 149 public schools (combined enrollment of about 69,214 students), of which Portage Lakes Career Center is one.

The closest other public school is Green Intermediate Elementary School, roughly 0.4 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Inside the community feed, recent activity here tends to focus on school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.