Parkersburg High School
Parkersburg, WV · High School · Grades 9-12
Parkersburg High School is a high school in Parkersburg, WV with 1,651 students enrolled and a 50% proficiency rate. Part of Wood County Schools. NCES data from the U.S. Department of Education.
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About This School
Parkersburg High School is a high school located in Parkersburg, West Virginia. The school serves 1,651 students in grades 9-12. The student-to-teacher ratio is 17.0:1.
According to EDFacts assessment data, 50% of students meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading. The school reports a 76% graduation rate.
Parkersburg High School is part of the Wood County Schools in West Virginia.
How This School Compares
Parkersburg High School has 1,651 students enrolled, making it larger than the average school in Wood County Schools (486 students). Its 50% proficiency rate is 1 percentage points below the district average of 51%. Compared to the West Virginia state average of 50%, the school performs 0 points higher.
Frequently Asked Questions
Parkersburg High School has 1,651 students enrolled in grades 9-12. The student-to-teacher ratio is 17.0:1.
According to EDFacts data, 50% of students at Parkersburg High School meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading assessments.
Parkersburg High School has a 76% graduation rate, measuring the percentage of students who graduate within four years.
Parkersburg High School is part of the Wood County Schools in Parkersburg, West Virginia. You can view all schools in this district on the district page.
All data on this page comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessment results. These are official federal datasets published by the U.S. Department of Education.
School profiles are built from NCES directory data and EDFacts assessment results. Proficiency rates reflect combined math and reading performance. Graduation rates are reported for high schools with available data.
For this entity, the underlying data on this page comes from NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts. The breakdown above is the federal record; the paragraphs below add the per-entity context that makes the headline numbers usable for a real decision rather than just a data lookup.
Every number on this page links back to NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts; the methodology page describes the inputs, refresh cadence, and known limitations of the underlying data product.
For readers using this page as a decision input, the related-entity pages elsewhere on the site provide the comparison set. The most useful comparison for this entity is typically a peer within U.S. public schools and districts with similar size, similar exposure, or similar geography — not the national-level summary alone.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, 2026.