Portage Times

There were 1,426 non-Hispanic Black students enrolled in Portage County schools in the 2023-24 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 18,712 students during the 2023-24 school year. Among them, non-Hispanic Black students comprised 7.6% 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 2023-24 school year, with a total of 136 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	12.8	1,066
Streetsboro Elementary School	20.1	591
Stanton Middle School	17.9	647
Streetsboro Middle School	24.4	450
Davey Elementary School	21.9	456
Streetsboro High School	16.8	567
Brown Middle School	15.3	522
Henry Defer Intermediate Elementary School	25.4	299
Ravenna High School	13.9	547
Longcoy Elementary School	22.1	276
Holden Elementary School	20.6	228
Brimfield Elementary School	8.1	517
Walls Elementary School	11.8	356
Willyard Elementary School	13.7	277
West Main Elementary School	12.8	297
Aurora High School	4	920
Katherine Thomas Elementary School	14	222
Harmon Middle School	4.3	694
Windham Junior High School	17.4	155
West Park Elementary School	12.4	186
Leighton Elementary School	3.1	678
Field Middle School	4.4	452
Bio-Med Science Academy STEM School	2	928
Field High School	3	528
Windham High School	13.2	106
Craddock Elementary School	2.9	419
James A. Garfield Elementary School	0	636
Crestwood High School	0	585
Waterloo Middle School	0	119
Waterloo Elementary School	0	463
Rootstown Elementary School	0	438
Suffield Elementary School	0	406
Southeast High School	0	399
James A. Garfield Middle School	0	183
James A. Garfield High School	0	361
Crestwood Primary School	0	390
Rootstown/Mabel Schnee Bldg Middle School	0	209
Southeast Junior High School	0	358
Waterloo High School	0	224
Miller Elementary School	0	286
Rootstown/Ward Davis Bldg High School	0	289
Southeast Primary Elementary School	0	326
Crestwood Intermediate School	0	343
Southeast Intermediate Elementary School	0	313