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Toledo School For The Arts
Test scores
Ohio's State Tests 2024-25 . % Proficient or AboveWhat this means: On the Ohio's State Tests, Ohio's statewide test, about 62 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 40 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 1 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 8 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 59% 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.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Toledo School For The Arts
As a medium-sized four-year high school in Toledo, Ohio, Toledo School For The Arts instructs 750 students from grades 6 through 12, one of the schools within Toledo School For The Arts. Compared to the state average of about 565 students per school, that is 33% larger than typical.
Toledo School For The Arts is a school of Toledo School For The Arts, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.
For racial and ethnic makeup, Toledo School For The Arts logs that White students make up the majority at 58%. Other groups include 18% Black, 12% Hispanic, 11% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 68% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.
On the resource side, The school currently runs with 56 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.4:1. The state averages around 17.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 51% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Toledo School For The Arts falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 69.4%; this one comes in at 59.0%, -10.5 points off the demographic line.
In the area at large, the surrounding county (Lucas County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $62,224 per year, about 29% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. In all, Lucas County runs 143 public schools (combined enrollment of about 73,839 students), of which Toledo School For The Arts is one.
Nearest neighbor: Madison Avenue School of Arts, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.
The school occupies a metropolitan site. Toledo School For The Arts operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.
Looking at the recent track record. Toledo School For The Arts's enrollment has ticked up 8% since 2018, when it stood at 692 (now 750). White enrollment moved from 65% to 58% across the same window.
On the community side, the feed for Toledo School For The Arts typically covers fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
Lucas County at a glance
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