South Ohio News

There were 7,790 non-Hispanic white students enrolled in Lawrence County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 1.8% less than the previous year, according to reports from the Ohio Department of Education & Workforce.

Data showed that Lawrence County welcomed 8,414 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, non-Hispanic white students comprised 92.6% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 23 schools in Lawrence County, Rock Hill Elementary School recorded the highest enrollment of non-Hispanic white students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 704 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
Rock Hill Elementary School	98.3	716
Dawson-Bryant Elementary School	99	572
Ironton Elementary School	85.5	657
Symmes Valley Elementary School	96.9	573
Chesapeake Elementary School	91.9	491
Chesapeake Middle School	94.7	379
Fairland High School	93.7	380
Fairland West Elementary School	93.9	347
Fairland East Elementary School	93.4	349
Fairland Middle School	94.1	337
South Point Elementary School	85.7	370
Ironton High School	82.5	371
Dawson-Bryant High School	96.6	294
Burlington Elementary School	88.1	319
South Point Middle School	84.6	332
Rock Hill Middle School	98.6	282
Rock Hill Senior High School	97.2	283
South Point High School	80.6	324
Ironton Middle School	89	292
Dawson-Bryant Middle School	98.8	256
Chesapeake High School	95.3	258
Symmes Valley High School	96.9	162
Tri-State STEM+M. Early College High School	98.6	70