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Columbus, Ohio - 3 schools
151
Total Enrollment
3
Schools
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Per-Pupil Spending
High, Combined
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Ohio School for the Deaf operates 3 public schools serving 151 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Ohio. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 high, 1 combined, 1 middle schools, a small enough portfolio that most families will interact with nearly every campus in the district at some point. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in Franklin County.
a 50.3:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, . Use the school table below to drill into any individual campus for its own demographic and resource profile.
Its largest campus is Ohio School for the Deaf, enrolling 90 students (60% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Ohio School for the Deaf, at 21 students, a 4x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Ohio School for the Deaf accounts for 59.6% of all Ohio School for the Deaf student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Ohio School for the Deaf a distant remainder — means Ohio School for the Deaf-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: high. A single dominant campus often anchors a district's program offerings and staffing patterns; the share helps explain why district-wide averages may not reflect the typical neighbourhood-school experience. When one entity dominates a region's footprint, its programmatic and budget decisions effectively set policy for a majority of the affected population.
Ohio School for the Deaf school enrollment varies 4.3× across entities
Ohio School for the Deaf school enrollment ranges from 21 students (lowest) to 90 students (highest), a spread of 69 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous campus portfolio, most districts have a wider mix of school sizes. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Ohio School for the Deaf has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 72.2% of the population qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch
free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is the federal threshold for Title I funding allocations, established under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015). Eligibility here is approaching the 75% concentration-grant threshold; it does not yet unlock the extra funding tier but sits meaningfully above the baseline 50% majority mark. Regions with eligibility this high typically draw a substantially larger federal funding share relative to their local tax base, which can either offset or reinforce existing gaps depending on allocation policy.
Ohio School for the Deaf student-counselor ratio is 50:1 — well below typical (typically associated with unusually small scale or exceptionally high per-unit investment)
student-counselor ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE counselors against total enrollment, districts that contract intervention or social-emotional staff outside the counselor classification may be under-counted Values this far below typical often correlate with unusually small scale or population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se — worth checking whether the underlying denominator is itself an outlier.