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Enrollment
1,540
High
DISTRICT 772 · STATE 565
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WADSWORTH CITY·NCES 391002901897
Wadsworth High School
625 Broad St, Wadsworth, OH 44281 · (330) 335-1400 · Medina County
GRADES 09–12HIGH21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL1,540 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 84% of Ohio public high schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- C+Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Ohio public high schools
Student : Teacher
19.2:1
80 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 19.2:1 · STATE 17.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
31%
474 students
DISTRICT 34% · STATE 43%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 355 | 23% |
| Grade 10 | 345 | 22% |
| Grade 11 | 425 | 28% |
| Grade 12 | 415 | 27% |
Student demographics
18%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 19% · STATE 54% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Wadsworth City. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
Ohio's State Tests 2024-25 . % Proficient or AboveEnglish Language Arts
82.7%
OH avg 59.8% . +0.3pp since 2021
Math
62.4%
OH avg 56.1% . +5.5pp since 2021
What this means: On the Ohio's State Tests, Ohio's statewide test, about 83 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 62 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Ohio schools, those numbers are about 60 and 56. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2021, while math scores are up about 6 points.
Ohio's State Tests results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 82.7% | 62.4% |
| 2023-24 | 85.3% | 65.6% |
| 2022-23 | 78.9% | 64.4% |
| 2021-22 | 82.4% | 56.9% |
% Proficient or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Ohio's State Tests. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
80.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
77.2%
based on OH schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+2.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 80% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 77% 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Wadsworth High School
Wadsworth High School's state test result (80.0% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wadsworth High School this school | 1,540 | 30.8% | 80.0% |
| Hoover High School North Canton | 1,502 | 27.9% | 83.7% |
| Brunswick High School Brunswick | 1,910 | 26.1% | 73.6% |
| William Henry Harrison High School Harrison | 1,122 | 36.8% | 62.8% |
| Milford Sr High School Milford | 1,814 | 22.5% | 77.1% |
| Medina High School Medina | 1,767 | 22.8% | 82.1% |
Matched among Ohio high schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Wadsworth High School ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In Ohio | In Medina County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 80.0% | #87 of 403 | N/A |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 62.4% | #206 of 776 ▼ 54 | #5 of 6 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 82.7% | #93 of 774 ▼ 19 | #3 of 6 ▼ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +2.9pp | #415 of 742 | #5 of 6 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,540 | #66 of 888 | #3 of 8 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 19.2:1 | #561 of 739 | #4 of 7 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 18.5% | #460 of 749 | #5 of 7 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 30.8% | #315 of 435 | N/A |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -7.3% | #353 of 484 | #5 of 6 |
Ranked against other public high schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
1,540
-67 (-4%) vs 2020
+39% since 1990-91, when it was 1,111
Student : Teacher
19.2:1
was 20.3:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 1,540 | 80.4 | 19.2:1 | 31% (474) |
| 2023-24 | 1,591 | 81.3 | 19.6:1 | 28% (442) |
| 2022-23 | 1,623 | 81.4 | 19.9:1 | 16% (263) |
| 2020-21 | 1,607 | 79 | 20.3:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 1,662 | 75.6 | 22.0:1 | 21% (341) |
| 2015-16 | 1,616 | 77 | 21.0:1 | 18% (289) |
| 2010-11 | 1,629 | 84 | 19.4:1 | 15% (251) |
| 2000-01 | 1,365 | 91 | 15.0:1 | 5% (65) |
| 1990-91 | 1,111 | 63 | 17.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Wadsworth High School.
Since 2017-18: students down 7% (1,662 to 1,540); teachers up 6% (75.6 to 80.4).
About Wadsworth High School
Wadsworth High School is a high school with a street address in Wadsworth, Ohio. Enrollment is 1,540 students in 2024-25, and the school serves grades 9 through 12. The average for high schools in Ohio is about 565 students, so this school is 173% larger than average.
District-wide, Wadsworth City has 10 schools and 4,275 students.
The large majority of students at Wadsworth High School, 90%, are White. Next come 4% multiracial and 3% Hispanic. County-wide, about 92% of residents are White. The chance that two students picked at random at Wadsworth High School belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 18%.
Federal records show a student-to-teacher ratio of 19.2:1 at Wadsworth High School, with 80.4 full-time-equivalent teachers. Among high schools in Ohio, the typical ratio is 17.7:1. The count of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch equals 31% of enrollment.
Wadsworth High School is graded A- by allk12, scoring above 84% of Ohio public high schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the BeatsExpectations model predicts an average proficiency rate on state tests of 77.2% for Wadsworth High School. The school posts 80.0%, 2.8 points above the prediction.
According to the American Community Survey, in Medina County, median household income is about $94,968, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 36%, and about 4% of people live in poverty. A total of 49 public schools operate in Medina County, serving about 25,243 students.
The next-closest public school is Wadsworth Middle School, about 0.2 miles away. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Wadsworth High School. Among its closest neighbors with test data, Wadsworth High School is 4th of 7 on proficiency.
NCES lists the school's locale as Suburb: Large. That means it sits in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Wadsworth High School had 1,607 students in 2020-21 and 1,540 in 2024-25, a 4% decrease. The student-to-teacher ratio went down from 20.3:1 to 19.2:1.
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Medina County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
183,660
Census ACS
Median income
$94,968
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
36%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
49
25,243 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Wadsworth City
- Central Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 606 students
- Wadsworth Middle SchoolMiddle · 606 students
- Overlook Elementary SchoolElementary · 390 students
- Isham Memorial Elementary SchoolElementary · 342 students
- Valley View Elementary SchoolElementary · 319 students
- Franklin Elementary SchoolElementary · 245 students
Other schools in Wadsworth
- Sharon Elementary SchoolElementary · 627 students
- Central Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 606 students
- Wadsworth Middle SchoolMiddle · 606 students
- Overlook Elementary SchoolElementary · 390 students
- Isham Memorial Elementary SchoolElementary · 342 students
- Valley View Elementary SchoolElementary · 319 students
Nearby schools
- Wadsworth Middle School0.2 mi · 606
- Wadsworth City School District Online Academy0.4 mi · 4
- Grizzly Academy0.4 mi · 28
- Overlook Elementary School0.4 mi · 390
- Central Intermediate School0.9 mi · 606
- Franklin Elementary School1.0 mi · 245
Frequently asked questions
About Wadsworth High SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Wadsworth High School?
Wadsworth High School enrolls approximately 1,540 students in grades 09-12.
Is Wadsworth High School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Wadsworth High School is a high school covering grades 09-12.
How many students per teacher at Wadsworth High School?
Approximately 19.2:1 students per teacher at Wadsworth High School.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Wadsworth High School?
At Wadsworth High School, the student body is approximately 90% White, 3% Hispanic, 2% Black, 1% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Who oversees Wadsworth High School?
Wadsworth High School is overseen by Wadsworth City in Medina County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.