South Ohio News

There were 34 Hispanic students enrolled in Brown County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 209.1% more 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, Hispanic students comprised 0.6% of the student body to be the least represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 16 schools in Brown County, Fayetteville-Perry Elementary School recorded the highest enrollment of Hispanic students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 14 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
Fayetteville-Perry Elementary School	4	352
Western Brown High School	1.3	750
Georgetown Junior-Senior High School	2.5	395
Georgetown Elementary School	0	558
Mt. Orab Primary Elementary School	0	752
Mt. Orab Middle School	0	609
Hamersville Elementary School	0	586
Ripley Union Lewis Huntington Elementary School	0	274
Ripley Union Lewis Huntington Middle School	0	195
Eastern High School	0	309
Sardinia Elementary School	0	274
Russellville Elementary School	0	262
Eastern Middle School	0	232
Ripley-Union-Lewis-Huntington High School	0	204
Fayetteville-Perry High School	0	198
Fayetteville-Perry Middle School	0	176