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West Holmes High School
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About West Holmes High School
West Holmes High School operates as a modestly sized four-year high school in Millersburg, Ohio, operated by West Holmes Local. Current enrollment sits at 478 students spanning grades 9 through 12.
West Holmes Local runs 7 schools in total, collectively educating 1,675 students. West Holmes High School is one of those campuses.
In terms of who attends, West Holmes High School records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (95%); the rest breaks down as 3% Hispanic. Compared to Holmes County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.
On the income-and-resources front, On paper, West Holmes High School has 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.7:1 average. An estimated 35% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), West Holmes High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 75.5%, the actual is 65.3%, a residual of -10.3 points.
In the broader community, the surrounding county (Holmes County) records that median household earnings sit near $76,140, roughly 11% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Holmes County runs 17 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,271 students), of which West Holmes High School is one.
Nearest neighbor: West Holmes Middle School, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. On composite proficiency, West Holmes High School comes 5th of 5 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 73.1%.
Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.
Over the past 7-year window. West Holmes High School's enrollment has declined 33% since 2018, when it stood at 716 (now 478). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 22.7:1 in 2018 to 14.5:1 today.
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Related schools
- West Holmes Middle SchoolMiddle · 384 students
- Millersburg Elementary SchoolElementary · 361 students
- Killbuck Elementary SchoolElementary · 221 students
- Lakeville Elementary SchoolElementary · 100 students
- Nashville Elementary SchoolElementary · 97 students
- West Holmes Digital AcademyHigh · 34 students
- Hiland High SchoolHigh · 395 students
- West Holmes Middle SchoolMiddle · 384 students
- Millersburg Elementary SchoolElementary · 361 students
- Wise Elementary SchoolMiddle · 67 students
- West Holmes Digital AcademyHigh · 34 students
- Buckeye Career Center Annex-Hiland SatelliteHigh · 6 students
- West Holmes Middle School0.1 mi · 384
- Nashville Elementary School5.0 mi · 97
- Millersburg Elementary School5.7 mi · 361
- Killbuck Elementary School5.8 mi · 221
- West Holmes Digital Academy6.0 mi · 34
- Holmesville Elementary School6.2 mi · 99