Public school / High
Watkins Memorial High School
Pataskala, Ohio
- NCES ID
- 390480403097
- District
- Southwest Licking Local
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Watkins Memorial High School is a public high school in Pataskala, Ohio, run by Southwest Licking Local. It enrols 1,373 students — the 4494th largest of 3,695 public schools in Ohio.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
1,373
Teachers
59.0
Students per teacher
23.3
Free or reduced-price lunch
25.7%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Southwest Licking Local
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Watkins Memorial High School1,373 students
- 2Watkins Middle School1,065 students
- 3Watkins Intermediate School703 students
- 4Etna Elementary496 students
- 5Pataskala Elementary School477 students
- 6Kirkersville Elementary School475 students
- 7Southwest Licking Early Learning Center128 students
- 8Swl Digital Academy77 students
- Enrollment+226.9%
- Teachers+156.5%
- Students per teacher+33.1%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−30.2%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory