Lake County Times

There were 20,236 non-Hispanic white students enrolled in Lake County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 2.6% less than the previous year, according to reports from the Ohio Department of Education & Workforce.

Data showed that Lake County welcomed 27,368 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, non-Hispanic white students comprised 73.9% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 52 schools in Lake County, Mentor High School recorded the highest enrollment of non-Hispanic white students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 1,947 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
Mentor High School	85	2,290
Riverside Junior-Senior High School	81.8	1,657
North High School	80.8	1,191
Memorial Middle School	85.4	886
Madison High School	87.7	797
South High School	65.4	1,055
Shore Middle School	83.4	725
Ridge Elementary School	80.5	701
Madison Middle School	85.4	604
South Elementary School	88.1	565
Royalview Elementary School	70.3	701
Parkside Elementary School	89.9	542
North Elementary School	83.6	580
Riverview Elementary School	77.9	596
Henry F. Lamuth Middle School	80.8	572
Perry Elementary School	83.5	552
Kirtland Elementary School	93.3	491
Hopkins Elementary School	88.7	494
Bellflower Elementary School	89.7	456
Perry High School	84.6	474
Perry Middle School	81.5	459
Grant Elementary School	65	540
Wickliffe Elementary School	65.2	532
School of Innovation	79.7	433
Orchard Hollow Elementary School	84.7	398
Willowick Middle School	72.3	458
Longfellow Elementary School	71.6	458
Willoughby Middle School	60.1	544
Kirtland High School	94.2	345
Jefferson Elementary School	81.2	388
Edison Elementary School	56.5	542
Wickliffe High School	74.7	391
Fairfax Elementary School	87	324
Sterling Morton Elementary School	83.5	316
Wickliffe Middle School	68.6	376
Eastlake Middle School	79.2	322
Kirtland Middle School	95.1	264
Lake Elementary School	79.7	306
Buckeye Elementary School	66.6	362
Fairport Harding High School	71.7	315
Melridge Elementary School	74	288
McKinley Elementary School	73.6	265
Harvey High School	18.5	777
iSTEM Geauga Early College High School	84.6	156
Heritage Middle School	17.6	568
Chestnut Elementary School	20.2	397
Maple Elementary School	19.1	350
Elm Street Elementary School	13.6	428
Willoughby-Eastlake City Schools Online Academy	65.2	46
Madison Online Learning Academy	81.3	32
Riverside Virtual Academy	87.5	24
Summit Academy Community School - Painesville	57.1	35