Portage Times

There were 18,712 students enrolled in Portage County schools in the 2023-24 school year, 1.2% less than the previous year, according to reports from the Ohio Department of Education & Workforce.

Boys made up 51.8% of the county's student body, while the other 48.2% were girls.

Data also showed that white, Non-Hispanic students made up 79.8% of the student body, the largest percentage in Portage County schools, followed by Black, Non-Hispanic students with 7.6%, 5.6% multiracial students, 2.8% Hispanic students and 2.6% Asian or Pacific Islander students.

Theodore Roosevelt High School had the highest enrollment among Portage County's 44 schools in the 2023-24 cycle, welcoming 1,066 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	Total enrollment in 2022-23	Total enrollment in 2023-24	% change
Theodore Roosevelt High School	1,056	1,066	0.9
Bio-Med Science Academy STEM School	995	928	-6.7
Aurora High School	944	920	-2.5
Harmon Middle School	697	694	-0.4
Leighton Elementary School	684	678	-0.9
Stanton Middle School	655	647	-1.2
James A. Garfield Elementary School	651	636	-2.3
Streetsboro Elementary School	604	591	-2.2
Crestwood High School	611	585	-4.3
Streetsboro High School	594	567	-4.5
Ravenna High School	559	547	-2.1
Field High School	528	528	0
Brown Middle School	503	522	3.8
Brimfield Elementary School	524	517	-1.3
Waterloo Elementary School	410	463	12.9
Davey Elementary School	454	456	0.4
Field Middle School	446	452	1.3
Streetsboro Middle School	461	450	-2.4
Rootstown Elementary School	440	438	-0.5
Craddock Elementary School	400	419	4.8
Suffield Elementary School	393	406	3.3
Southeast High School	376	399	6.1
Crestwood Primary School	422	390	-7.6
James A. Garfield High School	361	361	0
Southeast Junior High School	349	358	2.6
Walls Elementary School	367	356	-3
Crestwood Intermediate School	320	343	7.2
Southeast Primary Elementary School	326	326	0
Southeast Intermediate Elementary School	337	313	-7.1
Henry Defer Intermediate Elementary School	293	299	2
West Main Elementary School	321	297	-7.5
Rootstown/Ward Davis Bldg High School	316	289	-8.5
Miller Elementary School	283	286	1.1
Willyard Elementary School	316	277	-12.3
Longcoy Elementary School	271	276	1.8
Holden Elementary School	240	228	-5
Waterloo High School	220	224	1.8
Katherine Thomas Elementary School	225	222	-1.3
Rootstown/Mabel Schnee Bldg Middle School	219	209	-4.6
West Park Elementary School	136	186	36.8
James A. Garfield Middle School	210	183	-12.9
Windham Junior High School	132	155	17.4
Waterloo Middle School	178	119	-33.1
Windham High School	106	106	0