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Shelby, Ohio - 1 schools
1,040
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Pioneer Career & Technology operates 1 public schools serving 1,040 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Ohio. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 combined 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 Richland County.
The funding mix is 46.2% local, 50.4% state, and 3.5% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles.
a 276.3:1 student-counselor ratio, somewhat above the 250:1 ASCA recommendation, and 45.1% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 90.1% White, 6.0% Hispanic or Latino, 0.6% African American across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Pioneer Career & Technology, enrolling 1,105 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Pioneer Career & Technology accounts for 100.0% of all Pioneer Career & Technology student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Pioneer Career & Technology a distant remainder — means Pioneer Career & Technology-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: combined. 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.
Pioneer Career & Technology student-counselor ratio is 276:1 — near the typical range (US average ~408) — within the typical range for U.S. public districts
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 Variation between sub-units within Pioneer Career & Technology is typically wider than the Pioneer Career & Technology-aggregate figure suggests.
Pioneer Career & Technology chronic absenteeism rate is 45.1% — well above typical (typically associated with unusually large scale or acute resource constraints)
chronic absenteeism rate is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: a student is chronically absent if they miss ≥10% of enrolled days for any reason, illness, family obligations, or disengagement Values this far above typical often signal acute resource constraints or a structurally different scale than most peers — worth reading alongside the underlying counts, not the ratio alone.