Steel City High School

Set in Lorain, Ohio, Steel City High School is a micro-enrollment high school, operated by Steel City High School. It hosts 60 students across grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 89% smaller than the state mean of about 565.

Steel City High School is a school of Steel City High School, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

Demographically, Steel City High School lists that the largest single group is Hispanic at 35%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest reads as 30% White, 25% Black, 10% multiracial. By comparison, Lorain County as a whole is about 11% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 7 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 8.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Lorain County) reports that median household income runs about $73,347, 29% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Lorain County's 92 public schools (combined enrollment of about 42,516 students), Steel City High School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Lorain Bilingual Preparatory Academy, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area. Steel City High School operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

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