South Ohio News

There were 5,835 non-Hispanic white students enrolled in Brown County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 1.5% less than the previous year, according to reports from the Ohio Department of Education & Workforce.

Data showed that Brown County welcomed 6,126 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, non-Hispanic white students comprised 95.2% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 16 schools in Brown County, Western Brown High School recorded the highest enrollment of non-Hispanic white students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 720 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 white students enrolment	Total enrollment
Western Brown High School	96	750
Mt. Orab Primary Elementary School	94.9	752
Mt. Orab Middle School	95.6	609
Hamersville Elementary School	97.1	586
Georgetown Elementary School	93.7	558
Georgetown Junior-Senior High School	92.2	395
Fayetteville-Perry Elementary School	93.8	352
Eastern High School	98.4	309
Sardinia Elementary School	97.1	274
Russellville Elementary School	98.5	262
Ripley Union Lewis Huntington Elementary School	93.8	274
Eastern Middle School	96.6	232
Ripley-Union-Lewis-Huntington High School	93.1	204
Fayetteville-Perry High School	94.9	198
Ripley Union Lewis Huntington Middle School	89.7	195
Fayetteville-Perry Middle School	97.2	176