High · West Virginia
Parkersburg South High School
Free meals for allParkersburg South High School, a public high school in Parkersburg, West Virginia: grades 9–12, 1,373 students, 16.3 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Wood County Schools.
Size and class size
Compared with high schools of the same state and the whole country. Students per teacher counts every full-time-equivalent teacher, not the size of each class.
- Students
- 1,373
- Teachers (FTE)
- 84.0
- Students per teacher
- 16.3
- Grades
- 9–12
- High
More students per teacher than 70% of high schools in West Virginia
Median 14.7 · 116 schools compared
More students per teacher than 63% of high schools in the US
Median 14.4 · 20,809 schools compared
Larger than 91% of high schools in West Virginia
Median 564 · 117 schools compared
Larger than 83% of high schools in the US
Median 414 · 22,064 schools compared
State test results
Share of students scoring proficient or above on West Virginia's tests, grades 3–8, 2024–25 school year.
Reading and writing
West Virginia: 46%Not published: too few students tested.
West Virginia General Summative Assessment; proficient means Levels 3-4
Math
West Virginia: 41%Not published: too few students tested.
West Virginia General Summative Assessment; proficient means Levels 3-4
Each state sets its own test and its own bar for “proficient”, so results compare only within a state. Results also follow family income closely: a school's share reflects its students' circumstances as much as its teaching.
Data sourced from the Education Data Center (www.eddatacenter.org), a partner project of the National Center for Civic Innovation, Inc. State Assessment Data Repository version 3.1. More information about these assessments over time, including participation and test changes, is available from the Education Data Center.
What it offers
- Grades
- High · Grades 9–12
- Type
- District school · Regular
- Instruction
- Some virtual classes
- Meals
- Free breakfast and lunch for every student
- Area
- Small city
- Run by
- Wood County Schools
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Wood County Schools.
Location
- Address
- 1511 Blizzard Dr, Parkersburg, WV 26101
- Phone
- (304)420-9610
- City or town
- Parkersburg
- County
- Wood County
Nearby high schools
The closest public high schools by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.
| School | Grades | Students | Students / teacher |
|---|---|---|---|
Wood Co Voc Tech CtrCareer and technical | 9–12 | 2 | 0.1 |
Parkersburg High SchoolFree meals for all | 9–12 | 1,491 | 17.1 |
| 7–12 | 387 | 14.3 | |
Caperton Center for Applied TechnologyCareer and technical | 9–12 | — | — |
Warren High SchoolFree meals for all | 9–12 | 565 | 17.0 |
Williamstown High SchoolFree meals for all | 6–12 | 676 | 14.7 |
Sources
- Public schools and school districts (National Center for Education Statistics · U.S. Census Bureau), 2024–25 school year. NCES Common Core of Data and EDGE public school geocodes; U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of School System Finances and cartographic boundary files (places).
- State Assessment Data Repository (Education Data Center), 2024–25 school year. Data sourced from the Education Data Center (www.eddatacenter.org), a partner project of the National Center for Civic Innovation, Inc. State Assessment Data Repository v3.1.
Analisa does not rate schools. Figures are what a school has (students, teachers, programs), placed among schools of the same level; state test results are compared only within a state.
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