South Point High School

South Point High School is one of the compact secondary schools in South Point, Ohio, part of South Point Local, with 317 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Ohio's public schools average about 565 students each, so South Point High School sits 44% smaller than that benchmark.

South Point Local comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 1,343 students; South Point High School is among them.

In terms of who attends, South Point High School logs that 80% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest consists of 10% Black, 6% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 94%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.7:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.7:1, putting South Point High School tighter than the state norm the norm.

Around the school, census data for Lawrence County shows the typical household earns roughly $58,325 per year, roughly 19% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. South Point High School is one of 24 public schools in Lawrence County (combined enrollment of about 8,980 students).

The closest other public school is South Point Middle School, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around South Point High School.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 25%: 422 students in 2018 compared to 317 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 86% to 80%. Class-load math has tightened: from 15.9:1 in 2018 to 12.7:1 in 2025.

On this page, 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.