Marion-Morrow Times

There were 9,080 non-Hispanic white students enrolled in Marion County schools in the 2023-24 school year, 2% less than the previous year, according to reports from the Ohio Department of Education & Workforce.

Data showed that Marion County welcomed 11,419 students during the 2023-24 school year. Among them, non-Hispanic white students comprised 79.5% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 23 schools in Marion County, TRECA Digital Academy recorded the highest enrollment of non-Hispanic white students in the 2023-24 school year, with a total of 1,484 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
TRECA Digital Academy	73.3	2,024
Ulysses S. Grant Middle School	72.6	905
Harding High School	66.6	902
Heritage Elementary School	90.6	499
Pleasant Elementary School	89.6	492
Elgin Elementary School	92.5	465
Buckeye Community School - Marion	82.1	508
River Valley Middle School	85.7	476
River Valley High School	88	450
Pleasant Middle School	92	412
Liberty Elementary School	90.1	413
Pleasant High School	91.6	333
George Washington Elementary School	67.9	442
William McKinley Elementary School	74.5	392
Ridgedale Elementary School	92.1	315
Ridgedale Junior-Senior High School	92.4	301
James A. Garfield Elementary School	73.5	374
William H. Taft Elementary School	64.9	404
Benjamin Harrison Elementary School	68.3	363
Elgin Middle School	92.9	253
Elgin High School	91.2	251
Rutherford B. Hayes Elementary School	72.5	262
Marion Preparatory Academy	76	183