Vacationland Times

There were 4,793 non-Hispanic white students enrolled in Ottawa County school districts in the 2022-23 school year, 2.1% less than the previous year, according to reports from the Ohio Department of Education & Workforce.

Data showed that Ottawa County school districts welcomed 5,497 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, non-Hispanic white students comprised 87.2% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county's school districts.

Among the six school districts in Ottawa County, Benton Carroll Salem Local Schools recorded the highest enrollment of non-Hispanic white students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 1,185 students.

The main offices of all school districts mentioned in the story are located in cities associated with Ottawa County.

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.

District	% of White, Non-Hispanic students	Total enrollment
Put-in-Bay Local Schools	97.1%	68
Danbury Local Schools	93%	542
Benton Carroll Salem Local Schools	92.4%	1,282
Genoa Area Local Schools	89.4%	1,239
Woodmore Local Schools	86.2%	916
Port Clinton City	78.7%	1,450