Lima Reporter

There were 7,033 non-Hispanic white students enrolled in Mercer County schools in the 2023-24 school year, 0.3% more than the previous year, according to reports from the Ohio Department of Education & Workforce.

Data showed that Mercer County welcomed 7,585 students during the 2023-24 school year. Among them, non-Hispanic white students comprised 92.7% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 19 schools in Mercer County, Marion Local Elementary School recorded the highest enrollment of non-Hispanic white students in the 2023-24 school year, with a total of 659 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
Marion Local Elementary School	97.9	673
Celina High School	85.6	735
Coldwater Elementary School	96.8	634
Fort Recovery Elementary School	96.7	512
St. Henry Elementary School	96.4	470
Celina Primary School	82.1	532
Coldwater Middle School	95.3	425
Parkway Elementary School	92.8	404
Coldwater High School	95.5	332
Celina Intermediate Elementary School	89.5	344
Celina Middle School	83.2	370
Celina Elementary School	85.3	348
St. Henry Middle School	97.2	287
Parkway Middle School	95.2	293
Fort Recovery High School	95.6	273
Parkway High School	94.9	272
St. Henry High School	96.1	257
Marion Local High School	97.9	237
Fort Recovery Middle School	96.3	187