Central Ohio Today

There were 5,340 non-Hispanic white students enrolled in Champaign 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 Champaign County welcomed 5,954 students during the 2023-24 school year. Among them, non-Hispanic white students comprised 89.7% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 15 schools in Champaign County, Urbana Elementary School recorded the highest enrollment of non-Hispanic white students in the 2023-24 school year, with a total of 694 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
Urbana Elementary School	80.2	865
Graham Elementary School	92.4	749
West Liberty-Salem Elementary School	93.9	506
Urbana High School	83.6	476
Graham High School	92.5	398
Dohron Wilson Elementary School	92.3	379
Graham Middle School	91.4	374
Urbana Junior High School	87.2	392
West Liberty-Salem Middle/High School	94.3	348
Triad Elementary School	91.8	329
West Liberty-Salem Middle School	91.8	279
Mechanicsburg High School	94.8	233
Triad Middle School	91.5	234
Triad High School	92.4	197
Mechanicsburg Middle School	90.3	195