Waynesville High School

Waynesville High School operates as a tight-knit high school in Waynesville, Ohio, overseen by Wayne Local. Current enrollment sits at 448 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 21% smaller than the state mean of about 565.

Within Wayne Local, which oversees 3 schools and 1,576 students, Waynesville High School is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Waynesville High School logs that 92% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder reads as 3% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That is considerably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 83%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Waynesville High School has 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.2:1. The state averages around 17.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 28% of students at Waynesville High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, Waynesville High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 78.3%; this one delivers 84.9%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Warren County indicate median household earnings sit near $110,132, about 46% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Waynesville High School is one of 45 public schools in Warren County (combined enrollment of about 39,898 students).

Nearest neighbor: Waynesville Middle School, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Waynesville High School. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Waynesville High School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 80.2%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Waynesville High School's enrollment has shrank 5% since 2018, when it stood at 472 (now 448). The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 21.6:1 in 2018 to 15.2:1 today.

On this page, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.