South Ohio News

There were 6,071 students enrolled in Brown County schools in the 2023-24 school year, 0.9% less than the previous year, according to reports from the Ohio Department of Education & Workforce.

Boys made up 50.2% of the county's student body, while the other 49.8% were girls.

Data also showed that white, Non-Hispanic students made up 95.1% of the student body, the largest percentage in Brown County schools, followed by multiracial students with 2.2% and 0.3% Hispanic students.

Mt. Orab Primary Elementary School had the highest enrollment among Brown County's 16 schools in the 2023-24 cycle, welcoming 764 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 2022-23	Total enrollment in 2023-24	% change
Mt. Orab Primary Elementary School	752	764	1.6
Western Brown High School	750	728	-2.9
Mt. Orab Middle School	609	618	1.5
Hamersville Elementary School	586	578	-1.4
Georgetown Elementary School	558	547	-2
Ripley Union Lewis Huntington Elementary School	274	391	42.7
Georgetown Junior-Senior High School	395	387	-2
Fayetteville-Perry Elementary School	352	345	-2
Sardinia Elementary School	274	280	2.2
Russellville Elementary School	262	266	1.5
Eastern High School	309	251	-18.8
Eastern Middle School	232	237	2.2
Ripley-Union-Lewis-Huntington High School	204	227	11.3
Fayetteville-Perry High School	198	212	7.1
Fayetteville-Perry Middle School	176	161	-8.5
Ripley Union Lewis Huntington Middle School	195	79	-59.5