Portage Times

There were 1,413 non-Hispanic Black students enrolled in Portage County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 0.9% more 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 Black students comprised 7.5% of the student body to be the second most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 44 schools in Portage County, Theodore Roosevelt High School recorded the highest enrollment of non-Hispanic Black students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 134 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 Black students enrolment	Total enrollment
Theodore Roosevelt High School	12.7	1,056
Stanton Middle School	18.6	655
Streetsboro Elementary School	19	604
Streetsboro High School	16.7	594
Streetsboro Middle School	21	461
Davey Elementary School	19.8	454
Ravenna High School	14.8	559
Brown Middle School	16.1	503
Henry Defer Intermediate Elementary School	22.5	293
Longcoy Elementary School	20.3	271
Holden Elementary School	21.3	240
Brimfield Elementary School	9.2	524
Walls Elementary School	12.3	367
West Main Elementary School	13.4	321
Aurora High School	4.2	944
Willyard Elementary School	12.7	316
Katherine Thomas Elementary School	16	225
Harmon Middle School	3.7	697
Leighton Elementary School	3.4	684
Field Middle School	4.7	446
Bio-Med Science Academy STEM School	2	995
West Park Elementary School	14.7	136
Windham Junior High School	15.2	132
Windham High School	14.2	106
Field High School	2.5	528
Miller Elementary School	3.5	283
James A. Garfield Elementary School	0	651
Crestwood High School	0	611
Rootstown Elementary School	0	440
Crestwood Primary School	0	422
Waterloo Elementary School	0	410
Suffield Elementary School	0	393
Southeast High School	0	376
James A. Garfield High School	0	361
Southeast Junior High School	0	349
Southeast Intermediate Elementary School	0	337
Craddock Elementary School	0	400
Southeast Primary Elementary School	0	326
Rootstown/Ward Davis Bldg High School	0	316
Crestwood Intermediate School	0	320
Rootstown/Mabel Schnee Bldg Middle School	0	219
Waterloo High School	0	220
James A. Garfield Middle School	0	210
Waterloo Middle School	0	178