South Ohio News

There were 7,697 non-Hispanic white students enrolled in Lawrence County schools in the 2023-24 school year, 1.2% less than the previous year, according to reports from the Ohio Department of Education & Workforce.

Data showed that Lawrence County welcomed 8,302 students during the 2023-24 school year. Among them, non-Hispanic white students comprised 92.7% 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 2023-24 school year, with a total of 714 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	97.8	730
Dawson-Bryant Elementary School	98.3	597
Symmes Valley Elementary School	96.8	568
Ironton Elementary School	83.7	620
Chesapeake Elementary School	91.4	491
Chesapeake Middle School	95.6	367
South Point Elementary School	88.4	378
Fairland High School	93.9	347
Fairland East Elementary School	92.6	337
Fairland Middle School	93.1	334
Ironton High School	84.1	365
Fairland West Elementary School	94	319
Burlington Elementary School	88.4	327
Rock Hill Senior High School	97.9	289
Dawson-Bryant High School	97.9	287
South Point Middle School	88.1	310
Ironton Middle School	88	300
Rock Hill Middle School	99.2	261
South Point High School	79.8	322
Dawson-Bryant Middle School	97.7	257
Chesapeake High School	95.7	253
Symmes Valley High School	97.5	162
Tri-State STEM+M. Early College High School	98.8	81