An equity score of 90/100 ranks Vanguard-Sentinel Career & Technology Centers #2 of 821 districts in Ohio (state average 46). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $79,254 per pupil, Vanguard-Sentinel Career & Technology Centers ranks #1 of 981 Ohio districts by per-pupil spending (Ohio districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
201
Total Enrollment
3
Schools
$79,254
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.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $79,254 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the top 99 of 981 Ohio districts by per-pupil spending. See how Ohio compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. 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. The district's equity score is 90/100, ranked #2 of 821 in Ohio against a state average of 46, notably more even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
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 largest entity. Grade band: high. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how the district allocates programs, capital, or staff. Because it contains a majority of the affected population, enrollment-weighted aggregates will sit closer to this entity's reported fields than to those of smaller peers; an unweighted entity count answers a different question.
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 reports 90.4% free-lunch eligibility
The reported share is above 87.5%, so economic need is widespread across the measured student population. 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.
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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