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Fremont, Ohio - 3 schools
201
Total Enrollment
3
Schools
-
Per-Pupil Spending
High, Combined
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Vanguard-Sentinel Career & Technology Centers operates 3 public schools serving 201 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Ohio. The school portfolio breaks down into 2 high, 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 Sandusky County.
The funding mix is 37.5% local, 57.4% state, and 5.1% 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 177:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 67.8% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 72.9% White, 14.6% Hispanic or Latino, 4.6% African American across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Vanguard Tech Center, enrolling 177 students (61% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Sentinel Career & Technology Center, at 1 students, a 177x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Vanguard Tech Center accounts for 61.2% of all Vanguard-Sentinel Career & Technology Centers student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Vanguard-Sentinel Career & Technology Centers a distant remainder — means Vanguard-Sentinel Career & Technology Centers-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.
Vanguard-Sentinel Career & Technology Centers school enrollment varies 177× across entities
Vanguard-Sentinel Career & Technology Centers school enrollment ranges from 1 students (lowest) to 177 students (highest), a spread of 176 students. That ratio is an extreme outlier spread — among the widest gaps observed anywhere in this dataset. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Vanguard-Sentinel Career & Technology Centers has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 90.4% 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 a supermajority of the population — well past the 75% concentration-grant threshold that unlocks extra funding on top of the basic Title I formula. 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.
Vanguard-Sentinel Career & Technology Centers student-counselor ratio is 177:1 — low (typically associated with meeting or exceeding the American School Counselor Association (ASCA) recommended 250:1 benchmark, which correlates with stronger college and career counseling capacity)
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 Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.
Vanguard-Sentinel Career & Technology Centers chronic absenteeism rate is 67.8% — 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.
Comparisons are relative to Vanguard-Sentinel Career & Technology Centers's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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