Central Ohio Today

There were 69 non-Hispanic Black students enrolled in Logan County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 46.8% more than the previous year, according to reports from the Ohio Department of Education & Workforce.

Data showed that Logan County welcomed 5,735 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, non-Hispanic Black students comprised 1.2% of the student body to be the second least represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 12 schools in Logan County, Bellefontaine Elementary School recorded the highest enrollment of non-Hispanic Black students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 21 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
Bellefontaine Elementary School	3.7	568
Bellefontaine High School	2.8	671
Bellefontaine Intermediate School	3.2	466
Bellefontaine Middle School	2.8	497
Benjamin Logan Middle School	0	495
Benjamin Logan High School	0	488
Indian Lake High School	0	438
Indian Lake Middle School	0	402
Indian Lake Elementary School	0	518
Benjamin Logan Elementary School	0	643
Riverside Elementary School	0	301
Riverside High School	0	248