Townsend Community School
Castalia · OH · Townsend Community School · Public charter
📄 Shareable scorecard →Similar nearby schools
Most similar nearby schools
Perkins High School → Bellevue High School → Margaretta High School → Port Clinton High School → Clyde High School → Ehove Career Center → Huron High School → Sandusky High School →📋 At a glance
- 🎓 AP rigor: Bottom 37% of US high schools
- 📝 SAT/ACT participation: 74th percentile by test-taker volume
- 🎓 4-yr grad rate: 38% (Bottom 8% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate)
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How Townsend Community School compares for families
Solid mid-tier academic profile.
- ▸ LocallyOH students outperform the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math (+4 points).
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Perkins High School, Bellevue High School, Margaretta High School and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
For Parents
Follow Townsend Community School
Get an email when Townsend Community School's numbers change — new admissions results, enrollment shifts, test scores. A few updates a year, no spam.
SAT / ACT participation
CRDC federal data · 2020-2174th percentile by test-taker volume
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). Volume — not score — is what's reported here. A higher count means more students at this school are entering the college admissions pipeline. Note: 2020-21 was COVID-disrupted; some districts (especially those that stayed remote longer) report unusually low or zero takers.
🎓 4-year graduation rate · federal EDFacts
What % of students graduate on time?
Bottom 8% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate
Source: federal EDFacts ACGR (Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate), 2019 vintage via Urban Institute. EDFacts publishes a range (low-high) to preserve privacy on small cohorts; we display the midpoint.
👩🏫 Teacher workforce · federal CRDC
Teacher experience & reliability
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2017-18 — the most recent vintage that publishes per-school teacher quality fields; the 2020-21 sweep had them suppressed). "Inexperienced" = teachers in their first or second year. "Chronic absence" = teachers absent 10+ days/year.
🏛️ Your state's public flagship
Ohio State University-Main Campus
The in-state tuition gap is the flagship's biggest draw — most in-state families pay far less than the out-of-state sticker. Average net price after aid runs about $17,339/yr. Admission odds depend on your student's GPA and test scores, not which high school they attend.
Source: IPEDS admissions, tuition & enrollment + College Scorecard net price. Flagship = the state's primary public research university.
Chronic absenteeism
Why this matters to enrollment: Chronic absence is the most reliable early indicator that a student will leave a school — either by transferring out, dropping out, or matriculating to a charter or private alternative. At this level, today's absentees become next year's enrollment loss and the year-after's revenue loss. For school leaders: an Enrollment Trend Audit traces this dynamic forward →
Source: U.S. Department of Education, Civil Rights Data Collection 2020–2021. Rate = students chronically absent ÷ 2024 total enrollment.
Enrollment trend & projection
Total enrollment + grade 12, NCES Common Core of Data (2021–2024).
If the recent trend holds…
At its recent rate of -2.2%/year, projecting from 2024's 494 students:
≈ 52 fewer students by 2029 — a real revenue/relevance risk worth getting ahead of.
An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.
Revenue at risk
At $7,851 per student in district revenue, the 52 students projected to be lost by 2029 represent ≈ $408,252/year in funding at risk.
District total revenue ÷ enrollment, NCES F-33. Public funding largely follows enrollment, so a shrinking class is a recurring budget hit.
Most similar nearby high schools
The schools most like this one — same type, blended on distance and size — and where their enrollment is heading. These are the schools families here weigh against each other.
| School | Type | Miles | HS enrollment | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Perkins High School Sandusky |
Public | 5.3 | 539 | -7.2% |
| Bellevue High School Bellevue |
Public | 8.4 | 521 | -2.1% |
| Margaretta High School Castalia |
Public | 0.0 | 287 | -2.4% |
| Port Clinton High School Port Clinton |
Public | 10.1 | 448 | -15.9% |
| Clyde High School Clyde |
Public | 12.1 | 611 | -8.8% |
| Ehove Career Center Milan |
Public | 10.0 | 711 | +17.3% |
| Huron High School Huron |
Public | 12.3 | 372 | -14.9% |
| Sandusky High School Sandusky |
Public | 5.2 | 1,028 | +6.1% |