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Tri-Valley 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 68 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 59 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 15 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 71% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 73% 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 Tri-Valley High School
Tri-Valley High School is one of the medium-sized secondary schools in Dresden, Ohio, part of Tri-Valley Local, with 730 students on its rolls from grades 8 through 12. By comparison, Ohio's public schools average about 565 students each, so Tri-Valley High School sits 29% above that benchmark.
Tri-Valley Local comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 2,785 students; Tri-Valley High School is among them.
On the student-mix side, Tri-Valley High School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (91%). The remainder consists of 6% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Muskingum County as a whole.
On the income-and-resources front, Tri-Valley High School reports 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 20.9:1. The state averages around 17.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 41% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Tri-Valley High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 73.5%, the actual is 70.6%, a residual of -2.9 points.
Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Muskingum County) shows that median household income runs about $60,780, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Muskingum County's 33 public schools (combined enrollment of about 14,311 students), Tri-Valley High School is one campus in the mix.
Dresden Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Tri-Valley High School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 75.2%.
Tri-Valley High School operates from a countryside location.
Over the past 7-year window. Tri-Valley High School's enrollment has ticked down 15% since 2018, when it stood at 857 (now 730). The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 22.6:1 in 2018 to 20.9:1 today.
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Muskingum County at a glance
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