Portage Times

There were 15,309 non-Hispanic white students enrolled in Portage County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 2.1% less than the previous year, according to reports from the Ohio Department of Education & Workforce.

Data showed that Portage County welcomed 18,933 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, non-Hispanic white students comprised 80.9% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 44 schools in Portage County, Bio-Med Science Academy STEM School recorded the highest enrollment of non-Hispanic white students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 905 students.

In 2022, Ohio saw an average student-to-teacher ratio of approximately 1:15, which is an improvement for the state and is lower than the national average of 1:16.

Despite the apparent improvement, this positive trend is overshadowed by a general decline in public school enrollments, which was accelerated by the pandemic. This decline, aligned with the steady number of teachers in the state over the last 10 years, has led to low student-to-teacher ratios.

School name	% of non-Hispanic white students enrolment	Total enrollment
Bio-Med Science Academy STEM School	91	995
Theodore Roosevelt High School	74	1,056
Aurora High School	81.7	944
James A. Garfield Elementary School	95.2	651
Crestwood High School	93.8	611
Harmon Middle School	80.6	697
Leighton Elementary School	77.5	684
Field High School	92.4	528
Streetsboro High School	71.5	594
Stanton Middle School	64.6	655
Brimfield Elementary School	78.1	524
Streetsboro Elementary School	67.2	604
Rootstown Elementary School	90.2	440
Field Middle School	86.5	446
Crestwood Primary School	91	422
Ravenna High School	68.7	559
Waterloo Elementary School	92	410
Suffield Elementary School	93.6	393
Southeast High School	93.9	376
James A. Garfield High School	96.1	361
Brown Middle School	66.8	503
Southeast Junior High School	93.1	349
Southeast Intermediate Elementary School	94.1	337
Craddock Elementary School	79	400
Streetsboro Middle School	68.3	461
Southeast Primary Elementary School	96	326
Davey Elementary School	66.7	454
Rootstown/Ward Davis Bldg High School	95.3	316
Crestwood Intermediate School	91.6	320
Walls Elementary School	70.8	367
West Main Elementary School	70.1	321
Miller Elementary School	74.6	283
Willyard Elementary School	66.5	316
Rootstown/Mabel Schnee Bldg Middle School	92.7	219
Waterloo High School	92.3	220
James A. Garfield Middle School	95.2	210
Henry Defer Intermediate Elementary School	64.8	293
Longcoy Elementary School	62.7	271
Waterloo Middle School	93.8	178
Katherine Thomas Elementary School	72	225
Holden Elementary School	57.9	240
West Park Elementary School	68.4	136
Windham Junior High School	70.5	132
Windham High School	70.8	106