Roane County High

Roane County High, a compact four-year high school in Spencer, West Virginia, one of the schools within Roane County Schools, educates 490 students, covering grades 9 through 12. By comparison, West Virginia's public schools average about 640 students each, so Roane County High sits 23% leaner than that benchmark.

Roane County Schools runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 1,630 students. Roane County High is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Roane County High logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (96%). That composition is broadly in line with Roane County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.8:1, putting Roane County High higher than the state norm the norm.

In the broader community, census data for Roane County shows median household income runs about $45,778, about 15% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. Across Roane County's 5 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,630 students), Roane County High is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Spencer Elementary School, roughly 1.5 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Roane County High.

Roane County High operates from a low-density location.

Over the past 7-year window. Roane County High's enrollment has declined 25% since 2018, when it stood at 654 (now 490). The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 15.0:1 today.

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