Towpath Trail High School

As a middle-of-the-pack senior high in Akron, Ohio, Towpath Trail High School hosts 767 students from grades 9 through 12, operated by Towpath Trail High School. Compared to the state average of about 565 students per school, that is 36% bigger than typical.

Towpath Trail High School is the operating authority for Towpath Trail High School, handling staffing, calendars, and reporting to the state department of education.

Demographically, Towpath Trail High School reports that the most-represented group is White (49%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest looks like 35% Black, 14% multiracial, 2% Hispanic. By comparison, Summit County as a whole is about 74% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school currently runs with 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 28.4:1. The state averages around 17.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Summit County indicate median household earnings sit near $71,622, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across Summit County's 149 public schools (combined enrollment of about 69,214 students), Towpath Trail High School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: I Promise School, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

The school occupies a high-density site. Towpath Trail High School operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Over the past 7-year window. Towpath Trail High School's enrollment has rose 137% since 2018, when it stood at 324 (now 767). Over the same period, the White share climbed from 35% to 49%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 31.6:1 in 2018 to 28.4:1 today.

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