Wayne County Today

There were 13,457 students enrolled in Wayne County schools in the 2023-24 school year, 1.9% less than the previous year, according to reports from the Ohio Department of Education & Workforce.

Boys made up 51.7% of the county's student body, while the other 48.3% were girls.

Data also showed that white, Non-Hispanic students made up 88.2% of the student body, the largest percentage in Wayne County schools, followed by Hispanic students with 4.3%, 3.9% multiracial students, 1% Black, Non-Hispanic students and 0.2% Asian or Pacific Islander students.

Wooster High School had the highest enrollment among Wayne County's 40 schools in the 2023-24 cycle, welcoming 1,155 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	Total enrollment in 2022-23	Total enrollment in 2023-24	% change
Wooster High School	1,175	1,155	-1.7
Edgewood Middle School	713	735	3.1
Northwestern Elementary School	627	639	1.9
Norwayne Elementary School	581	568	-2.2
Green Elementary School	534	536	0.4
Orrville Elementary School	578	528	-8.7
Chippewa Junior-Senior High School	537	496	-7.6
Orrville Middle School	485	476	-1.9
Orrville High School	399	411	3
Norwayne High School	376	383	1.9
Wooster Twp Elementary School	381	377	-1
Rittman Elementary School	395	370	-6.3
Triway High School	360	357	-0.8
Apple Creek Elementary School	369	357	-3.3
Cornerstone Elementary School	367	354	-3.5
Triway Junior High School	344	353	2.6
Dalton Elementary School	344	352	2.3
Chippewa Intermediate School	337	337	0
Shreve Elementary School	328	318	-3
Hazel Harvey Elementary School	309	314	1.6
Norwayne Middle School	310	314	1.3
Northwestern High School	340	313	-7.9
Waynedale High School	305	306	0.3
Kean Elementary School	323	301	-6.8
Northwestern Middle School	288	290	0.7
Dalton Middle School	287	275	-4.2
Parkview Elementary School	283	264	-6.7
Dalton High School	250	252	0.8
Melrose Elementary School	256	244	-4.7
Smithville High School	273	243	-11
Green Middle School	211	227	7.6
Rittman High School	203	215	5.9
Rittman Middle School	212	189	-10.8
John R. Lea Middle School	187	183	-2.1
Fredericksburg Elementary School	127	128	0.8
Mount Eaton Elementary School	128	116	-9.4
Beacon Hill Academy	57	61	7
Liberty Preparatory School	53	46	-13.2
Chippewa Virtual Learning Academy	47	41	-12.8
Rittman Academy	37	33	-10.8