Portage Times

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.

School name	% of Hispanic students enrolment	Total enrollment
Theodore Roosevelt High School	4.5	1,066
Aurora High School	4.1	920
Ravenna High School	4.9	547
Harmon Middle School	3.7	694
Streetsboro High School	4.4	567
Davey Elementary School	4.8	456
Stanton Middle School	3.2	647
Crestwood Primary School	5.4	390
Field Middle School	4.4	452
Leighton Elementary School	2.9	678
Brown Middle School	3.8	522
Bio-Med Science Academy STEM School	2.2	928
West Main Elementary School	6.4	297
Miller Elementary School	6.6	286
Craddock Elementary School	4.5	419
Crestwood High School	3.2	585
Rootstown Elementary School	3.9	438
Brimfield Elementary School	2.9	517
Longcoy Elementary School	5.4	276
West Park Elementary School	7.5	186
Waterloo Elementary School	3	463
Southeast High School	3.3	399
Willyard Elementary School	4.3	277
Holden Elementary School	4.8	228
James A. Garfield Elementary School	1.6	636
Streetsboro Elementary School	1.7	591
Streetsboro Middle School	2.2	450
Field High School	0	528
Waterloo Middle School	0	119
James A. Garfield Middle School	0	183
James A. Garfield High School	0	361
Rootstown/Mabel Schnee Bldg Middle School	0	209
Southeast Junior High School	0	358
Waterloo High School	0	224
Rootstown/Ward Davis Bldg High School	0	289
Southeast Primary Elementary School	0	326
Southeast Intermediate Elementary School	0	313
Crestwood Intermediate School	0	343
Suffield Elementary School	0	406
Katherine Thomas Elementary School	0	222
Windham High School	0	106
Walls Elementary School	0	356
Windham Junior High School	0	155
Henry Defer Intermediate Elementary School	0	299