Waynesfield-Goshen Local High School

Waynesfield-Goshen Local High School is a 9-12 campus of one-room-style scale in Waynesfield, Ohio, operated by Waynesfield-Goshen Local, hosting 220 students in grades 6 through 12. That puts it 61% smaller than the typical public school in Ohio, which averages around 565 students.

Within Waynesfield-Goshen Local, which oversees 2 schools and 465 students, Waynesfield-Goshen Local High School is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Waynesfield-Goshen Local High School lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (94%); the rest looks like 4% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.7:1 average. An estimated 75% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Auglaize County (around 48%), the school's rate is north of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Waynesfield-Goshen Local High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 60.5%, the actual is 65.2%, a residual of +4.7 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Auglaize County) shows that median household income runs about $78,660, 22% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Waynesfield-Goshen Local High School is one of 18 public schools in Auglaize County (combined enrollment of about 7,462 students).

Waynesfield-Goshen Local Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Waynesfield-Goshen Local High School has contracted 6%, going from 234 students in 2018 to 220 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 19.5:1 in 2018 to 12.2:1 in 2025.

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