Vermilion High School

Vermilion High School is one of the middle-of-the-pack secondary schools in Vermilion, Ohio, overseen by Vermilion Local, with 580 students on its rolls from grades 8 through 12.

Vermilion Local comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 1,613 students; Vermilion High School is among them.

On demographics, Vermilion High School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (89%). Other groups include 5% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Erie County as a whole is about 81% White, so the school skews considerably more White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Vermilion High School records 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 44% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, Vermilion High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 72.0%, the actual is 66.6%, a residual of -5.4 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Erie County) shows that median household earnings sit near $71,993, about 29% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Vermilion High School is one of 29 public schools in Erie County (combined enrollment of about 12,434 students).

Vermilion Digital Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Vermilion High School. On composite proficiency, Vermilion High School comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 71.7%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Over the past 7-year window. Vermilion High School's enrollment has decreased 21% since 2018, when it stood at 734 (now 580). White enrollment moved from 94% to 89% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 21.0:1 in 2018 to 17.6:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.