Ohio High Schools
Statistics and Information on Private Schools, Boarding and Military Schools, and Public High Schools

Ohio High School Statistics

Most of the following statistics are by the Ohio State Board of Education’s well as the Knowledge Works Foundation:

·         Only 7 in 10 Ohio high school students graduate with their diploma.

·         78 % of the class of 2002 graduated.  Of these 55% were Latino, 55% were African-American and 83% were white.

·         In the school year of 2000-2001 there were approximately 45,999 high school drop-outs.

·         Graduation rates are lower in the southern regions of Ohio.  This is also true of large urban populations.

·         Urban high schools in Ohio have a 15% lower rate of graduation than suburban high schools.