Lake County Times

There were 1,966 non-Hispanic Black students enrolled in Lake County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 3.6% more 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 Black students comprised 7.2% of the student body to be the third most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 52 schools in Lake County, South High School recorded the highest enrollment of non-Hispanic Black students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 251 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 Black students enrolment	Total enrollment
South High School	23.8	1,055
Willoughby Middle School	25.2	544
Edison Elementary School	25.3	542
Harvey High School	16.5	777
Grant Elementary School	20.2	540
North High School	8.3	1,191
Royalview Elementary School	14	701
Mentor High School	4.2	2,290
Heritage Middle School	16.4	568
Wickliffe Elementary School	15.8	532
Elm Street Elementary School	15.4	428
Wickliffe Middle School	16.5	376
Chestnut Elementary School	15.1	397
Willowick Middle School	12.4	458
Longfellow Elementary School	11.8	458
Riverside Junior-Senior High School	3.1	1,657
Wickliffe High School	12	391
Maple Elementary School	12.6	350
Memorial Middle School	4.1	886
Buckeye Elementary School	9.7	362
Ridge Elementary School	4.9	701
Jefferson Elementary School	6.2	388
Shore Middle School	3	725
Eastlake Middle School	6.5	322
Melridge Elementary School	6.9	288
Henry F. Lamuth Middle School	2.8	572
Riverview Elementary School	2.5	596
School of Innovation	3.5	433
Sterling Morton Elementary School	3.8	316
Willoughby-Eastlake City Schools Online Academy	23.9	46
Perry Elementary School	1.8	552
Fairport Harding High School	3.2	315
McKinley Elementary School	3.8	265
Perry Middle School	0	459
Perry High School	0	474
Madison High School	0	797
North Elementary School	0	580
Madison Middle School	0	604
South Elementary School	0	565
Lake Elementary School	0	306
Parkside Elementary School	0	542
Hopkins Elementary School	0	494
Bellflower Elementary School	0	456
Orchard Hollow Elementary School	0	398
Fairfax Elementary School	0	324
Kirtland Elementary School	0	491
Kirtland High School	0	345
Kirtland Middle School	0	264
iSTEM Geauga Early College High School	0	156
Madison Online Learning Academy	0	32
Riverside Virtual Academy	0	24
Summit Academy Community School - Painesville	0	35