South Ohio News

There were 6,126 students enrolled in Brown County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 1.3% less than the previous year, according to reports from the Ohio Department of Education & Workforce.

Boys made up 50.6% of the county's student body, while the other 49.4% were girls.

Data also showed that white, Non-Hispanic students made up 95.2% of the student body, the largest percentage in Brown County schools, followed by multiracial students with 2.2% and 0.6% Hispanic students.

Mt. Orab Primary Elementary School had the highest enrollment among Brown County's 16 schools in the 2022-23 cycle, welcoming 752 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 2021-22	Total enrollment in 2022-23	% change
Mt. Orab Primary Elementary School	744	752	1.1
Western Brown High School	718	750	4.5
Mt. Orab Middle School	628	609	-3
Hamersville Elementary School	595	586	-1.5
Georgetown Elementary School	561	558	-0.5
Georgetown Junior-Senior High School	430	395	-8.1
Fayetteville-Perry Elementary School	356	352	-1.1
Eastern High School	305	309	1.3
Sardinia Elementary School	281	274	-2.5
Ripley Union Lewis Huntington Elementary School	236	274	16.1
Russellville Elementary School	253	262	3.6
Eastern Middle School	273	232	-15
Ripley-Union-Lewis-Huntington High School	230	204	-11.3
Fayetteville-Perry High School	196	198	1
Ripley Union Lewis Huntington Middle School	217	195	-10.1
Fayetteville-Perry Middle School	182	176	-3.3