Rutherford B Hayes High School

Rutherford B Hayes High School is a big senior high in Delaware, Ohio, run under Delaware City. The school educates 1,612 students in grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 185% above the state mean of about 565.

Delaware City runs 7 schools in total, collectively educating 5,650 students. Rutherford B Hayes High School is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Rutherford B Hayes High School logs that White students make up the majority at 75%; the rest looks like 11% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 6% Black.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Rutherford B Hayes High School has 83 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 19.4:1. The state averages around 17.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 35% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is north of Delaware County's rate of about 20%.

After controlling for student poverty, Rutherford B Hayes High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 75.6%, the actual is 72.5%, a residual of -3.1 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Delaware County) records that median household income runs about $133,540, 59% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 3%. In all, Delaware County runs 59 public schools (combined enrollment of about 44,100 students), of which Rutherford B Hayes High School is one.

The closest other public school is David Smith Elementary School, roughly 0.4 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Rutherford B Hayes High School. On composite proficiency, Rutherford B Hayes High School comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 70.3%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Rutherford B Hayes High School has held roughly steady, going from 1,593 students in 2018 to 1,612 in 2025. The White share of enrollment decreased from 83% to 75% over that span.

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