Portage Times

There were 1,040 multiracial students enrolled in Portage County schools in the 2023-24 school year, 4.6% 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, multiracial students comprised 5.6% of the student body to be the third most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 44 schools in Portage County, Theodore Roosevelt High School recorded the highest enrollment of multiracial students in the 2023-24 school year, with a total of 100 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 multiracial students enrolment	Total enrollment
Theodore Roosevelt High School	9.4	1,066
Brown Middle School	14.4	522
Ravenna High School	13.3	547
Stanton Middle School	9.7	647
Willyard Elementary School	15.5	277
Bio-Med Science Academy STEM School	4.2	928
Davey Elementary School	8.3	456
Walls Elementary School	10.7	356
Brimfield Elementary School	7.2	517
West Main Elementary School	12.1	297
Streetsboro Elementary School	5.9	591
Holden Elementary School	15.4	228
Streetsboro High School	5.3	567
West Park Elementary School	15.1	186
Crestwood Intermediate School	8.2	343
Aurora High School	2.8	920
Longcoy Elementary School	9.4	276
Streetsboro Middle School	5.3	450
Crestwood Primary School	6.2	390
Harmon Middle School	3.3	694
Henry Defer Intermediate Elementary School	7	299
Crestwood High School	3.6	585
Leighton Elementary School	2.9	678
Waterloo Elementary School	4.3	463
James A. Garfield Elementary School	3	636
Craddock Elementary School	4.3	419
Windham Junior High School	11.6	155
Field Middle School	3.8	452
Windham High School	14.2	106
Katherine Thomas Elementary School	6.3	222
Rootstown Elementary School	2.7	438
Suffield Elementary School	3	406
Miller Elementary School	4.2	286
Southeast Intermediate Elementary School	0	313
Southeast Primary Elementary School	0	326
Rootstown/Ward Davis Bldg High School	0	289
Waterloo High School	0	224
Southeast Junior High School	0	358
Rootstown/Mabel Schnee Bldg Middle School	0	209
James A. Garfield High School	0	361
James A. Garfield Middle School	0	183
Southeast High School	0	399
Waterloo Middle School	0	119
Field High School	0	528