Special Education Center
Columbus · OH · Columbus City Schools District · Public · K-12 combined
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East High School → The Academy for Urban Scholars → St Charles Preparatory School → Columbus School For Girls → Helping Hands Center Dba Bridgeway Academy → Cristo Rey Columbus High School → Bexley High School → South High School →📋 At a glance
- ✅ Gifted & talented program
- 🎓 AP rigor: Bottom 14% of US high schools
- 📝 SAT/ACT participation: Bottom 1% by test-taker volume
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How Special Education Center compares for families
What families should know about Special Education Center.
- ▸ LocallyOH students outperform the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math (+4 points).
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: East High School, The Academy for Urban Scholars, St Charles Preparatory School and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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SAT / ACT participation
CRDC federal data · 2020-21Bottom 1% by test-taker volume
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). Volume — not score — is what's reported here. A higher count means more students at this school are entering the college admissions pipeline. Note: 2020-21 was COVID-disrupted; some districts (especially those that stayed remote longer) report unusually low or zero takers.
👩🏫 Teacher workforce · federal CRDC
Teacher experience & reliability
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2017-18 — the most recent vintage that publishes per-school teacher quality fields; the 2020-21 sweep had them suppressed). "Inexperienced" = teachers in their first or second year. "Chronic absence" = teachers absent 10+ days/year.
Chronic absenteeism
Why this matters to enrollment: A low chronic-absence rate is the cleanest school-level signal of strong family connection, classroom culture, and student engagement — all upstream drivers of enrollment stability. For school leaders: an Enrollment Trend Audit traces this dynamic forward →
Source: U.S. Department of Education, Civil Rights Data Collection 2020–2021. Rate = students chronically absent ÷ 2024 total enrollment.
Enrollment trend & projection
Total enrollment + grade 12, NCES Common Core of Data (2021–2024).
If the recent trend holds…
At its recent rate of +18.5%/year, projecting from 2024's 178 students:
An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.
Nearby high schools — the local competition
The closest high schools families here also consider, and where their enrollment is heading.
| School | Type | Miles | HS enrollment | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| East High School Columbus |
Public | 0.6 | 431 | -3.8% |
| The Academy for Urban Scholars Columbus |
Public · charter | 0.8 | 386 | +14.9% |
| St Charles Preparatory School Columbus |
Private | 1.0 | 395 | -37.4% |
| Columbus School For Girls Columbus |
Private | 1.3 | 497 | -3.7% |
| Helping Hands Center Dba Bridgeway Academy Columbus |
Private | 1.6 | 183 | +15.8% |
| Cristo Rey Columbus High School Columbus |
Private | 1.6 | 440 | +15.2% |
| Bexley High School Bexley |
Public | 1.6 | 766 | +2.8% |
| South High School Columbus |
Public | 1.6 | 595 | -17.6% |