1
Alumni: what's one memory from Wayne Trace High School that still sticks with you?
Community prompt from u/allk12. Replies below.
Enrollment
404
High
DISTRICT 295 · STATE 565
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WAYNE TRACE LOCAL·NCES 390490303471
Wayne Trace High School
4915 US Route 127, Haviland, OH 45851 · (419) 399-4100 · Paulding County
GRADES 07–12HIGH42-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL404 STUDENTS
B-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 51% of Ohio public high schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- DThree-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
14.4:1
28 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.9:1 · STATE 17.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
40%
162 students
DISTRICT 55% · 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 7 | 77 | 19% |
| Grade 8 | 64 | 16% |
| Grade 9 | 85 | 21% |
| Grade 10 | 57 | 14% |
| Grade 11 | 60 | 15% |
| Grade 12 | 61 | 15% |
Student demographics
9%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 12% · 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
Based on grade levels within Wayne Trace Local. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
Ohio's State Tests 2024-25 . % Proficient or AboveEnglish Language Arts
70.4%
OH avg 59.8% . -8.3pp since 2021
Math
63.1%
OH avg 56.1% . -1.6pp since 2021
What this means: On the Ohio's State Tests, Ohio's statewide test, about 70 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 63 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Ohio schools, those numbers are about 60 and 56. Reading and writing scores are down about 8 points since 2021, while math scores are down about 2 points.
Ohio's State Tests results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 70.4% | 63.1% |
| 2023-24 | 69.1% | 59.3% |
| 2022-23 | 71.2% | 55.9% |
| 2021-22 | 78.6% | 64.7% |
% 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
69.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
73.7%
based on OH schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-3.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 70% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 74% 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 Wayne Trace High School
Wayne Trace High School's state test result (69.8% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wayne Trace High School this school | 404 | 40.1% | 69.8% |
| Carlisle High School Carlisle | 415 | 40.0% | 64.2% |
| Keystone High School Lagrange | 392 | 39.0% | 70.4% |
| Bethel Tate High School Bethel | 402 | 42.3% | 76.8% |
| Valley View High School Germantown | 468 | 39.7% | 69.4% |
| Graham High School Saint Paris | 491 | 41.8% | 60.2% |
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 Wayne Trace High School ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In Ohio |
|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 69.8% | #228 of 403 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 63.1% | #199 of 776 ▲ 20 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 70.4% | #305 of 774 ▲ 20 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -5.0pp | #72 of 742 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 404 | #472 of 888 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.4:1 | #213 of 739 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 9.1% | #657 of 749 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 40.1% | #239 of 435 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -5.2% | #393 of 484 |
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
404
-52 (-11%) vs 2020
-34% since 1990-91, when it was 616
Student : Teacher
14.4:1
was 15.7:1
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 | 404 | 28 | 14.4:1 | 40% (162) |
| 2023-24 | 431 | 28 | 15.4:1 | 36% (155) |
| 2022-23 | 431 | 28 | 15.4:1 | 34% (147) |
| 2020-21 | 456 | 29 | 15.7:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 426 | 28 | 15.2:1 | 32% (138) |
| 2015-16 | 429 | 26 | 16.5:1 | 32% (136) |
| 2010-11 | 426 | 27 | 15.8:1 | 39% (166) |
| 2000-01 | 583 | 26 | 22.4:1 | 14% (80) |
| 1990-91 | 616 | 27 | 22.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Wayne Trace High School.
Since 2017-18: students down 5% (426 to 404); teachers unchanged (28 to 28).
About Wayne Trace High School
Wayne Trace High School is one of the public schools in Haviland, Ohio. It is a small high school. The school covers grades 7 through 12 and reported 404 students in 2024-25. On average, high schools in Ohio enroll around 565, and this school is 28% below that mark.
Wayne Trace Local counts 884 students in its 3 schools, and Wayne Trace High School is one of them.
The share of students at Wayne Trace High School who are White is 95%. Enrollment also includes 2% Hispanic. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 9, compared with 70 nationally.
Its staff includes 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, for about 14.4 students per teacher. The gap from the 17.7:1 average for high schools in Ohio is 3.3 students per teacher. Roughly 40% of students at Wayne Trace High School can receive free or reduced-price lunch. The 61% average for public schools in Paulding County is 21 points higher.
Wayne Trace High School earns a B- on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 51% of Ohio public high schools.
Wayne Trace High School is 3.9 points below its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results (69.8% versus 73.7%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in Ohio.
In Paulding County, home to about 18,791 people, median household income comes to about $67,731, 17% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 6% of people live in poverty. There are 10 public schools in the county, enrolling about 2,855, Wayne Trace High School among them.
Of the public schools around it, Wayne Trace High School is closest to Grover Hill Elementary School, about 5.3 miles away. Inside a ten-mile radius, there are 5 other public schools. Wayne Trace High School comes in 5th of 7 nearby schools on average proficiency.
In the federal locale system, Wayne Trace High School is coded Rural: Distant, for schools in rural territory some distance from an urban area.
Enrollment fell by 11% across 4 years, from 456 in 2020-21 to 404 in 2024-25. The student-to-teacher ratio dropped from 15.7:1 in 2020-21 to 14.4:1 in 2024-25.
This page is set up for the Wayne Trace High School community to discuss homework, tutoring, and testing dates. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Paulding County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
18,791
Census ACS
Median income
$67,731
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
17%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
10
2,855 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Wayne Trace Local
- Payne Elementary SchoolElementary · 263 students
- Grover Hill Elementary SchoolElementary · 217 students
Nearby schools
- Grover Hill Elementary School5.3 mi · 217
- Paulding Middle School6.4 mi · 251
- Paulding High School6.4 mi · 322
- Paulding Elementary School6.5 mi · 442
- Payne Elementary School8.6 mi · 263
- Oakwood Elementary School10.8 mi · 291
Frequently asked questions
About Wayne Trace High SchoolHow many students attend Wayne Trace High School?
Wayne Trace High School enrolls approximately 404 students in grades 07-12.
Is Wayne Trace High School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Wayne Trace High School is a high school covering grades 07-12.
How many teachers does Wayne Trace High School have?
Wayne Trace High School employs 28 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.4:1.
What is the student diversity at Wayne Trace High School?
Student demographics at Wayne Trace High School are roughly 95% White, 2% Hispanic, 1% Black, 2% Two or more.
Who oversees Wayne Trace High School?
Wayne Trace High School is overseen by Wayne Trace Local in Paulding County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.