Public Schools in Ohio
3,586 schools · 971 districts · 1,679,311 students
Largest Schools in Ohio
School data sourced from NCES (National Center for Education Statistics) via the Common Core of Data.
Ohio Virtual Academy
Maumee
Alternative Education Academy
Independence
Ohio Connections Academy Inc
Cleveland
William Mason High School
Mason
Mason Intermediate Elementary School
Mason
Centerville High School
Centerville
Lakota West High School
West Chester
Walnut Hills High School
Cincinnati
Lakota East High School
Liberty Township
Hamilton High School
Hamilton
Frequently Asked Questions
Ohio has 3,586 public schools across 971 districts, serving 1,679,311 students.
The largest school in Ohio is Ohio Virtual Academy with 14,334 students. Ohio has 3,586 public schools overall.
The average proficiency rate is 53%. Proficiency rates measure the percentage of students meeting state standards on standardized assessments, as reported by EDFacts.
All school data comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data for enrollment and school characteristics, and EDFacts for proficiency rates and graduation rates.
School data is sourced from NCES enrollment records and EDFacts proficiency and graduation rate assessments. No synthetic scores are used.
this entity is one of the data points covered by this site’s U.S. K-12 school outcomes and enrollment dataset. The detail above comes directly from NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts; the context that follows situates the headline numbers against the broader distribution across U.S. public schools and districts.
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.