Vantage Career Center

Set in Van Wert, Ohio, Vantage Career Center is a medium-sized senior high, part of Vantage Career Center. It instructs 489 students across grades 9 through 12.

Vantage Career Center is a school of Vantage Career Center, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

On the student-mix side, Vantage Career Center shows that 92% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest comes out to 5% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, Vantage Career Center lists 85 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 5.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.7:1 average. An estimated 44% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Van Wert County runs at roughly 67%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

In the surrounding community, Van Wert County reports that the typical household earns roughly $67,917 per year, about 17% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Van Wert County runs 14 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,713 students), of which Vantage Career Center is one.

Nearest neighbor: Van Wert Early Childhood Center, around 1.7 miles off. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Vantage Career Center operates from a small-town location.

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