Wayne County Today

There were 11,868 non-Hispanic white students enrolled in Wayne County schools in the 2023-24 school year, 2.1% less than the previous year, according to reports from the Ohio Department of Education & Workforce.

Data showed that Wayne County welcomed 13,457 students during the 2023-24 school year. Among them, non-Hispanic white students comprised 88.2% 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 2023-24 school year, with a total of 957 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	82.9	1,155
Edgewood Middle School	84.4	735
Northwestern Elementary School	94.5	639
Norwayne Elementary School	95.2	568
Chippewa Junior-Senior High School	95.2	496
Green Elementary School	85.3	536
Orrville Elementary School	71.2	528
Norwayne High School	95	383
Rittman Elementary School	93.2	370
Orrville Middle School	71.6	476
Triway High School	94.4	357
Triway Junior High School	94.9	353
Wooster Twp Elementary School	87.3	377
Apple Creek Elementary School	90.8	357
Chippewa Intermediate School	92	337
Dalton Elementary School	86.6	352
Hazel Harvey Elementary School	95.2	314
Northwestern High School	94.6	313
Shreve Elementary School	92.8	318
Norwayne Middle School	93.3	314
Waynedale High School	94.8	306
Orrville High School	70.1	411
Cornerstone Elementary School	81.4	354
Northwestern Middle School	94.1	290
Kean Elementary School	90.4	301
Dalton Middle School	89.5	275
Dalton High School	90.5	252
Smithville High School	92.6	243
Parkview Elementary School	83	264
Green Middle School	88.1	227
Rittman High School	90.7	215
Melrose Elementary School	77.5	244
Rittman Middle School	92.6	189
John R. Lea Middle School	95.1	183
Fredericksburg Elementary School	99.2	128
Mount Eaton Elementary School	94.8	116
Beacon Hill Academy	100	61
Chippewa Virtual Learning Academy	100	41
Liberty Preparatory School	76.1	46
Rittman Academy	97	33