South Ohio News

There were 4,035 non-Hispanic white students enrolled in Pike County schools in the 2023-24 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 4,234 students during the 2023-24 school year. Among them, non-Hispanic white students comprised 95.3% 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 2023-24 school year, with a total of 619 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	94.2	657
Jasper Elementary School	95.9	508
Waverly Primary School	94.9	447
Waverly High School	94.2	450
Waverly Intermediate School	94.4	377
Waverly Junior High School	92.7	383
Western High School	98.2	276
Western Primary School	98.8	242
Eastern Primary Elementary School	96.6	205
Eastern Middle School	97.3	185
Eastern Intermediate Elementary School	94.5	182
Eastern High School	95.2	166
Western Elementary School	97.4	156