South Ohio News

There were 4,099 non-Hispanic white students enrolled in Pike County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 1.6% less than the previous year, according to reports from the Ohio Department of Education & Workforce.

Data showed that Pike County welcomed 4,278 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, non-Hispanic white students comprised 95.8% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 13 schools in Pike County, Piketon Junior-Senior High School recorded the highest enrollment of non-Hispanic white students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 642 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
Piketon Junior-Senior High School	95.3	674
Jasper Elementary School	95.7	517
Waverly High School	94.4	484
Waverly Primary School	95.4	432
Waverly Junior High School	95.6	405
Waverly Intermediate School	94.3	366
Western High School	98.3	287
Western Primary School	97.9	234
Eastern Intermediate Elementary School	95.9	195
Eastern Primary Elementary School	96.3	190
Eastern Middle School	97.2	180
Western Elementary School	99.4	158
Eastern High School	94.9	156