Portage Times

There were 1,278 kindergarten students enrolled in Portage County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 0.1% more than the previous year, according to reports from the Ohio Department of Education & Workforce.

Miller Elementary School welcomed most of the kindergarten students in the county, registering 195 students.

Within Portage County schools, the highest student count was found in ninth grade, with the smallest class sizes seen in pre-kindergarten.

Statewide, Portage County ranked 20th in enrollment numbers, with a total of 18,933 students enrolled in the 2022-23 school year. It was also ranked 20th the year before.

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 Kindergarten Students Enrolled	% of Student Body	Total Enrollment
Miller Elementary School	195	68.9	283
West Park Elementary School	136	100	136
Streetsboro Elementary School	125	20.7	604
Southeast Primary Elementary School	121	37	327
Crestwood Primary School	95	22.5	422
James A. Garfield Elementary School	92	14.1	651
Brimfield Elementary School	87	16.6	525
Suffield Elementary School	72	18.3	393
Rootstown Elementary School	68	15.4	441
Walls Elementary School	64	17.4	367
Davey Elementary School	54	11.9	454
Waterloo Elementary School	42	10.2	411
Longcoy Elementary School	40	14.8	270
Holden Elementary School	35	14.6	239
Katherine Thomas Elementary School	28	12.4	225
Bio-Med Science Academy STEM School	24	2.4	995
Theodore Roosevelt High School	0	0	1,042
Stanton Middle School	0	0	654
Brown Middle School	0	0	502
Ravenna High School	0	0	552
West Main Elementary School	0	0	321
Willyard Elementary School	0	0	316
Windham High School	0	0	105
Windham Junior High School	0	0	132
Aurora High School	0	0	941
Craddock Elementary School	0	0	400
Harmon Middle School	0	0	697
Leighton Elementary School	0	0	684
Crestwood Intermediate School	0	0	320
Crestwood High School	0	0	609
Field High School	0	0	528
Field Middle School	0	0	446
James A. Garfield High School	0	0	361
James A. Garfield Middle School	0	0	210
Rootstown/Ward Davis Bldg High School	0	0	315
Rootstown/Mabel Schnee Bldg Middle School	0	0	220
Southeast High School	0	0	374
Southeast Junior High School	0	0	349
Southeast Intermediate Elementary School	0	0	338
Streetsboro Middle School	0	0	461
Streetsboro High School	0	0	592
Henry Defer Intermediate Elementary School	0	0	293
Waterloo Middle School	0	0	177
Waterloo High School	0	0	220