18 public K-12 schools in Chillicothe from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.
National city placement
According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Chillicothe has more public-school enrollment than 76% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Chillicothe's average Resource Investment Index falls in the lower portion of the 4,487-city comparison set. The index is a resource snapshot, not an academic grade: it reflects the federal staffing, counselor, gifted-program, and attendance fields available for local campuses. The most useful next step is to open the individual schools below and identify which component is pulling each score down, because the same city average can hide very different campus-level constraints.
Chillicothe's list includes 8 elementary, 2 middle, and 5 high-school campuses, plus 3 combined-grade records. The city average spans every major grade stage, so the ranked table is more informative when read within level than as one interchangeable queue.
Free-lunch eligibility is reported for schools covering 34.8% of Chillicothe's listed enrollment. Because the remaining enrollment is outside that calculation, the measured percentage should not be generalized to every local student. The Resource Investment Index uses other reported federal fields and has its own coverage limits. Treat the city figures as a map of available records: inspect a campus's source fields before using economic need or resource position in a comparison.
Chillicothe school enrollment ranges from 99 students (lowest) to 1,032 students (highest), a spread of 933 students. That spread reflects typical urban portfolio variation between specialty programs and large neighbourhood schools. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
The reported share clears the 50% majority mark. Title I operates under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015), but its statutory allocation uses additional LEA-level counts and rules not represented by this average. This percentage is an economic-need context measure; it does not establish a Title I award, show dollars received, or describe how funds are distributed among campuses.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Each school district has independent budgeting, hiring, and service delivery authority. The fragmentation reflects historical patterns of inter-municipal boundary lines that pre-date modern city growth, students in different parts of the same city can attend different districts with different per-pupil spending, calendars, and graduation requirements. Per-region variation is largest in fragmented systems because each school district sets its own budget, contracts, and priorities without higher-level coordination above the regulatory floor.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Variation between sub-units within Chillicothe is typically wider than the Chillicothe-aggregate figure suggests.
| # | School | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Zane Trace Elementary School | 44 |
| 2. | Pickaway-Ross Career & Technology Center | 40 |
| 3. | Huntington High School | 39 |
| 4. | Huntington Elementary School | 37 |
| 5. | Huntington Middle School | 37 |
| 6. | Southeastern High School | 36 |
| 7. | Chillicothe Intermediate School | 35 |
| 8. | Southeastern Elementary School | 34 |
| 9. | Chillicothe Middle School | 33 |
| 10. | Chillicothe High School | 32 |
| 11. | Zane Trace Middle School | 32 |
| 12. | Mt. Logan Early Childhood Center | 32 |
| 13. | Chillicothe Primary School | 28 |
| 14. | Zane Trace High School | 25 |
| 15. | Unioto High School | 21 |
| 16. | Southeastern Middle School | 19 |
| 17. | Unioto Elementary | 18 |
| 18. | Unioto Middle School | 11 |
Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.
Zane Trace Elementary School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Chillicothe schools in this federal-data comparison at 44/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.
Chillicothe has 18 public schools with a total enrollment of 8,570 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 17.8:1.
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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.
