Wayne County Schools Career Center
Smithville · OH · Wayne County JVSD · Public · K-12 combined
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Liberty Preparatory School → Smithville High School → Heritage Private School Inc. → Wooster High School → Orrville High School → Kingsway Christian School → Norwayne High School → Rittman High School →📋 At a glance
- Program details not reported to CRDC
- Academic signals not yet ingested for this school
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How Wayne County Schools Career Center compares for families
What families should know about Wayne County Schools Career Center.
- ▸ LocallyOH students outperform the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math (+4 points).
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Liberty Preparatory School, Smithville High School, Heritage Private School Inc. and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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👩🏫 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.
🏛️ Federal Title I context
Title I Schoolwide eligible
≥40% FRPL — qualifies for Title I Schoolwide program
40-74% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. The district can use Title I funds across the whole school under federal Schoolwide Program rules.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, free/reduced-price lunch eligibility. The actual Title I designation is a district decision and may differ from eligibility — but the federal eligibility math is what we show here. We don't claim to assert whether the district formally chose to enroll this school in Title I.
Chronic absenteeism
Why this matters to enrollment: Chronic absence is the most reliable early indicator that a student will leave a school — either by transferring out, dropping out, or matriculating to a charter or private alternative. At this level, today's absentees become next year's enrollment loss and the year-after's revenue loss. 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 +1.6%/year, projecting from 2024's 624 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberty Preparatory School Smithville |
Public · charter | 0.5 | 46 | — |
| Smithville High School Smithville |
Public | 0.7 | 295 | -24.7% |
| Heritage Private School Inc. Sterling |
Private | 4.4 | 79 | +12.9% |
| Wooster High School Wooster |
Public | 4.5 | 921 | +0.4% |
| Orrville High School Orrville |
Public | 5.3 | 415 | +9.2% |
| Kingsway Christian School Orrville |
Private | 6.5 | 201 | +18.9% |
| Norwayne High School Creston |
Public | 7.2 | 415 | -3.7% |
| Rittman High School Rittman |
Public | 8.6 | 212 | -9.0% |