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Portage County Education: 525 Hispanic students were enrolled in schools in 2023-24 school year

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Paul Craft Ohio Superintendent of Public Instruction | https://sboe.ohio.gov/about-us/superintendent/01-superintendent

Paul Craft Ohio Superintendent of Public Instruction | https://sboe.ohio.gov/about-us/superintendent/01-superintendent

There were 525 Hispanic students enrolled in Portage County schools in the 2023-24 school year, 12.2% 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, Hispanic students comprised 2.8% of the student body to be the second least represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 44 schools in Portage County, Theodore Roosevelt High School recorded the highest enrollment of Hispanic students in the 2023-24 school year, with a total of 48 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.

Ethnicities in Portage County in 2023-24 School Year

Non-Hispanic white [79.8%]Non-Hispanic Black [7.6%]Multiracial [5.6%]Ethnicities < 5% [7%]

Enrollment Demographics in Portage County Schools During 2023-24 School Year

School name% of Hispanic students enrolmentTotal enrollment
Theodore Roosevelt High School4.51,066
Aurora High School4.1920
Ravenna High School4.9547
Harmon Middle School3.7694
Streetsboro High School4.4567
Davey Elementary School4.8456
Stanton Middle School3.2647
Crestwood Primary School5.4390
Field Middle School4.4452
Leighton Elementary School2.9678
Brown Middle School3.8522
Bio-Med Science Academy STEM School2.2928
West Main Elementary School6.4297
Miller Elementary School6.6286
Craddock Elementary School4.5419
Crestwood High School3.2585
Rootstown Elementary School3.9438
Brimfield Elementary School2.9517
Longcoy Elementary School5.4276
West Park Elementary School7.5186
Waterloo Elementary School3463
Southeast High School3.3399
Willyard Elementary School4.3277
Holden Elementary School4.8228
James A. Garfield Elementary School1.6636
Streetsboro Elementary School1.7591
Streetsboro Middle School2.2450
Field High School0528
Waterloo Middle School0119
James A. Garfield Middle School0183
James A. Garfield High School0361
Rootstown/Mabel Schnee Bldg Middle School0209
Southeast Junior High School0358
Waterloo High School0224
Rootstown/Ward Davis Bldg High School0289
Southeast Primary Elementary School0326
Southeast Intermediate Elementary School0313
Crestwood Intermediate School0343
Suffield Elementary School0406
Katherine Thomas Elementary School0222
Windham High School0106
Walls Elementary School0356
Windham Junior High School0155
Henry Defer Intermediate Elementary School0299

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