Townsend Community School
Castalia · OH · Townsend Community School · Public charter
📄 Shareable scorecard →Similar nearby schools
Most similar nearby schools
Margaretta High School → Sandusky High School → Perkins High School → Sandusky Central Catholic School → Sandusky Central Catholic School → Bellevue High School → Danbury High School → Ehove Career Center →📋 At a glance
- 🎓 AP rigor: Bottom 37% of US high schools
- 📝 SAT/ACT participation: 74th percentile by test-taker volume
- 🎓 4-yr grad rate: 38% (Bottom 8% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate)
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How Townsend Community School compares for families
Solid mid-tier academic profile.
- ▸ LocallyOH students outperform the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math (+4 points).
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Margaretta High School, Sandusky High School, Perkins High School and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
For Parents
Follow Townsend Community School
Get an email when Townsend Community School's numbers change — new admissions results, enrollment shifts, test scores. A few updates a year, no spam.
SAT / ACT participation
CRDC federal data · 2020-2174th percentile 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.
🎓 4-year graduation rate · federal EDFacts
What % of students graduate on time?
Bottom 8% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate
Source: federal EDFacts ACGR (Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate), 2019 vintage via Urban Institute. EDFacts publishes a range (low-high) to preserve privacy on small cohorts; we display the midpoint.
👩🏫 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: 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 -2.2%/year, projecting from 2024's 494 students:
≈ 52 fewer students by 2029 — a real revenue/relevance risk worth getting ahead of.
An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.
Revenue at risk
At $7,851 per student in district revenue, the 52 students projected to be lost by 2029 represent ≈ $408,252/year in funding at risk.
District total revenue ÷ enrollment, NCES F-33. Public funding largely follows enrollment, so a shrinking class is a recurring budget hit.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Margaretta High School Castalia |
Public | 0.0 | 287 | -2.4% |
| Sandusky High School Sandusky |
Public | 5.2 | 1,028 | +6.1% |
| Perkins High School Sandusky |
Public | 5.3 | 539 | -7.2% |
| Sandusky Central Catholic School Sandusky |
Private | 5.9 | 519 | -1.7% |
| Sandusky Central Catholic School Sandusky |
Private | 5.9 | 522 | +0.6% |
| Bellevue High School Bellevue |
Public | 8.4 | 521 | -2.1% |
| Danbury High School Lakeside Marblehead |
Public | 9.8 | 172 | +18.6% |
| Ehove Career Center Milan |
Public | 10.0 | 711 | +17.3% |