South Ohio News

There were 5,771 non-Hispanic white students enrolled in Brown County schools in the 2023-24 school year, 1.1% less than the previous year, according to reports from the Ohio Department of Education & Workforce.

Data showed that Brown County welcomed 6,071 students during the 2023-24 school year. Among them, non-Hispanic white students comprised 95.1% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 16 schools in Brown County, Mt. Orab Primary Elementary School recorded the highest enrollment of non-Hispanic white students in the 2023-24 school year, with a total of 712 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
Mt. Orab Primary Elementary School	93.2	764
Western Brown High School	96.2	728
Mt. Orab Middle School	95.5	618
Hamersville Elementary School	95.8	578
Georgetown Elementary School	95.4	547
Georgetown Junior-Senior High School	93.3	387
Ripley Union Lewis Huntington Elementary School	92.1	391
Fayetteville-Perry Elementary School	94.8	345
Sardinia Elementary School	95.7	280
Russellville Elementary School	98.9	266
Eastern High School	97.2	251
Eastern Middle School	97.5	237
Ripley-Union-Lewis-Huntington High School	91.6	227
Fayetteville-Perry High School	96.7	212
Fayetteville-Perry Middle School	96.3	161
Ripley Union Lewis Huntington Middle School	89.9	79