Wayne County Today

There were 12,128 non-Hispanic white students enrolled in Wayne 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 Wayne County welcomed 13,716 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, non-Hispanic white students comprised 88.4% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 40 schools in Wayne County, Wooster High School recorded the highest enrollment of non-Hispanic white students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 979 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
Wooster High School	83.3	1,175
Northwestern Elementary School	95.1	627
Edgewood Middle School	83.3	713
Norwayne Elementary School	95.2	581
Chippewa Junior-Senior High School	94.6	537
Green Elementary School	86.1	534
Orrville Elementary School	72.3	578
Rittman Elementary School	93.4	395
Norwayne High School	94.7	376
Orrville Middle School	71.3	485
Triway High School	94.7	360
Wooster Twp Elementary School	88.7	381
Apple Creek Elementary School	91.3	369
Northwestern High School	96.5	340
Triway Junior High School	93.3	344
Chippewa Intermediate School	93.2	337
Shreve Elementary School	95.4	328
Dalton Elementary School	86.9	344
Kean Elementary School	91	323
Hazel Harvey Elementary School	94.8	309
Norwayne Middle School	93.9	310
Cornerstone Elementary School	79.3	367
Waynedale High School	94.4	305
Orrville High School	71.2	399
Northwestern Middle School	95.1	288
Dalton Middle School	88.2	287
Smithville High School	91.9	273
Parkview Elementary School	82.3	283
Dalton High School	91.6	250
Melrose Elementary School	79.3	256
Rittman Middle School	92.9	212
Green Middle School	90	211
Rittman High School	88.7	203
John R. Lea Middle School	94.7	187
Fredericksburg Elementary School	99.2	127
Mount Eaton Elementary School	97.7	128
Beacon Hill Academy	100	57
Chippewa Virtual Learning Academy	100	47
Liberty Preparatory School	75.5	53
Rittman Academy	94.6	37