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Thomas Worthington High School
Test scores
Ohio's State Tests 2024-25 . % Proficient or AboveWhat this means: On the Ohio's State Tests, Ohio's statewide test, about 79 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 60 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Ohio schools, those numbers are about 60 and 56. Reading and writing scores are up about 7 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 11 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 76% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 79% typical for Ohio schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Ohio's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Thomas Worthington High School
Thomas Worthington High School is a secondary school of large scale in Worthington, Ohio, operated by Worthington City, instructing 1,712 students in grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 565 students per school, that is 203% bigger than typical.
Worthington City comprises 19 schools with combined enrollment of 10,874 students; Thomas Worthington High School is among them.
Looking at the student body, Thomas Worthington High School logs that 64% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder consists of 16% Black, 9% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 4% Asian.
Looking at school resources, The school employs 99 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.3:1. The state averages about 17.7:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 27% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Franklin County (around 41%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Thomas Worthington High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 78.6%, the actual is 76.3%, a residual of -2.3 points.
In the surrounding community, Franklin County reports that the typical household earns roughly $75,176 per year, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Thomas Worthington High School is one of 402 public schools in Franklin County (combined enrollment of about 195,359 students).
Evening Street Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Thomas Worthington High School at 4th of 7; the average score across the group is 77.0%.
Thomas Worthington High School operates from a suburban location.
Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Thomas Worthington High School has stayed largely flat, going from 1,725 students in 2018 to 1,712 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share ticked up from 12% to 16%.
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