Shenandoah High School
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Test scores
Ohio's State Tests 2024-25 . % Proficient or AboveWhat this means: On the Ohio's State Tests, Ohio's statewide test, about 67 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 31 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Ohio schools, those numbers are about 60 and 56. Reading and writing scores are down about 5 points since 2021, while math scores have held steady.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 58% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 69% typical for Ohio schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About 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.
Noble County at a glance
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