Portage Times

There were 464 Asian or Pacific Islander students enrolled in Portage County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 16.9% more than the previous year, according to reports from the Ohio Department of Education & Workforce.

Data showed that Portage County welcomed 18,933 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, Asian or Pacific Islander students comprised 2.5% of the student body to be the least represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 44 schools in Portage County, Leighton Elementary School recorded the highest enrollment of Asian or Pacific Islander students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 90 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 Asian or Pacific Islander students enrolment	Total enrollment
Leighton Elementary School	13.2	684
Aurora High School	8.1	944
Harmon Middle School	8.3	697
Craddock Elementary School	11.8	400
Miller Elementary School	11.7	283
Streetsboro Elementary School	4.8	604
Brimfield Elementary School	4.6	524
Theodore Roosevelt High School	1.8	1,056
Streetsboro High School	2.7	594
Streetsboro Middle School	3	461
Stanton Middle School	2	655
Bio-Med Science Academy STEM School	1.2	995
Walls Elementary School	3.3	367
Field High School	2.1	528
Henry Defer Intermediate Elementary School	3.4	293
Ravenna High School	0	559
Davey Elementary School	0	454
Brown Middle School	0	503
Field Middle School	0	446
Willyard Elementary School	0	316
Crestwood High School	0	611
West Main Elementary School	0	321
Longcoy Elementary School	0	271
Rootstown Elementary School	0	440
Crestwood Primary School	0	422
James A. Garfield Elementary School	0	651
Southeast High School	0	376
Holden Elementary School	0	240
Katherine Thomas Elementary School	0	225
Waterloo Elementary School	0	410
Suffield Elementary School	0	393
Crestwood Intermediate School	0	320
West Park Elementary School	0	136
Windham Junior High School	0	132
Windham High School	0	106
James A. Garfield High School	0	361
Southeast Junior High School	0	349
Southeast Intermediate Elementary School	0	337
Southeast Primary Elementary School	0	326
Rootstown/Ward Davis Bldg High School	0	316
Rootstown/Mabel Schnee Bldg Middle School	0	219
Waterloo High School	0	220
James A. Garfield Middle School	0	210
Waterloo Middle School	0	178