Westerville-South High School

Westerville-South High School operates as an expansive 9-12 campus in Westerville, Ohio, overseen by Westerville City. Current enrollment sits at 1,509 students spanning grades 9 through 12. That puts it 167% above the typical public school in Ohio, which averages around 565 students.

Within Westerville City, which oversees 24 schools and 14,589 students, Westerville-South High School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Westerville-South High School records that 43% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school logs 31% Black, 11% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 5% Asian. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 59%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Westerville-South High School has 89 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.9:1. The state averages around 17.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 49% of students at Westerville-South High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Franklin County (around 41%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Westerville-South High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 70.1%, the actual is 68.8%, a residual of -1.4 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Franklin County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $75,176 per year, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Franklin County runs 402 public schools (combined enrollment of about 195,359 students), of which Westerville-South High School is one.

Blendon Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Westerville-South High School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 74.5%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Westerville-South High School has changed only slightly, going from 1,498 students in 2018 to 1,509 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share decreased from 51% to 43%.

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