Wadsworth High School

Wadsworth High School is a senior high of expansive scale in Wadsworth, Ohio, one of the schools within Wadsworth City, hosting 1,540 students in grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 173% above the state mean of about 565.

Across the 10 schools in Wadsworth City (4,275 students total), Wadsworth High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Wadsworth High School shows that 90% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 4% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Medina County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 80 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.2:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.7:1, putting Wadsworth High School higher than the state norm the norm. Around 31% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, Wadsworth High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 77.2%; this one delivers 80.0%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Medina County indicate the typical household earns roughly $94,968 per year, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. In all, Medina County runs 49 public schools (combined enrollment of about 25,243 students), of which Wadsworth High School is one.

Wadsworth Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Wadsworth High School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Wadsworth High School at 4th of 7; the average score across the group is 78.4%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 7%: 1,662 students in 2018 compared to 1,540 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 22.0:1 in 2018 to 19.2:1 today.

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