Shenandoah High School

Shenandoah High School is a four-year high school of compact scale in Sarahsville, Ohio, one of the schools within Noble Local, instructing 240 students in grades 9 through 12. That puts it 58% leaner than the typical public school in Ohio, which averages around 565 students.

Shenandoah High School is one of 2 schools operated by Noble Local, a district that serves 1,049 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Shenandoah High School shows that 97% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder consists of 3% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, Shenandoah High School shows 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.7:1 average. An estimated 51% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is lower than Noble County's rate of about 71%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Shenandoah High School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 69.5%; this one comes in at 58.3%, -11.2 points off the demographic line.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Noble County indicate the typical household earns roughly $56,098 per year, roughly 16% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Noble County's 4 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,797 students), Shenandoah High School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Shenandoah Elementary School, around 0.2 miles off. Within ten miles, there are 5 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 3%: 234 students in 2018 compared to 240 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 12.9:1 in 2018 to 10.9:1 today.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.