Parkersburg South High School
Parkersburg, WV · High School · Grades 9-12
Parkersburg South High School is a high school in Parkersburg, WV with 1,454 students enrolled and a 52% proficiency rate. Part of Wood County Schools. NCES data from the U.S. Department of Education.
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About This School
Parkersburg South High School is a high school located in Parkersburg, West Virginia. The school serves 1,454 students in grades 9-12. The student-to-teacher ratio is 16.5:1.
According to EDFacts assessment data, 52% of students meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading. The school reports a 80% graduation rate.
Parkersburg South High School is part of the Wood County Schools in West Virginia.
How This School Compares
Parkersburg South High School has 1,454 students enrolled, making it larger than the average school in Wood County Schools (486 students). Its 52% proficiency rate is 1 percentage points above the district average of 51%. Compared to the West Virginia state average of 50%, the school performs 3 points higher.
Frequently Asked Questions
Parkersburg South High School has 1,454 students enrolled in grades 9-12. The student-to-teacher ratio is 16.5:1.
According to EDFacts data, 52% of students at Parkersburg South High School meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading assessments.
Parkersburg South High School has a 80% graduation rate, measuring the percentage of students who graduate within four years.
Parkersburg South 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.
The this entity record above pulls directly from NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts. What follows is the per-entity context — how this entity sits in the broader U.S. K-12 school outcomes and enrollment distribution and which underlying factors drive the headline numbers.
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.