Medina Today

There were 308 non-Hispanic Black students enrolled in Medina County schools in the 2023-24 school year, 2.7% more than the previous year, according to reports from the Ohio Department of Education & Workforce.

Data showed that Medina County welcomed 23,635 students during the 2023-24 school year. Among them, non-Hispanic Black students comprised 1.3% of the student body to be the second least represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 39 schools in Medina County, Medina High School recorded the highest enrollment of non-Hispanic Black students in the 2023-24 school year, with a total of 50 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
Medina High School	2.7	1,821
Brunswick High School	2.4	1,798
Applewood Elementary School	7.3	481
Garfield Elementary School	15.5	213
Claggett Middle School	4.5	671
Brunswick Middle School	2	1,325
Wadsworth High School	1.3	1,414
Heritage Elementary School	4.8	335
Eliza Northrop Elementary School	2.6	586
Buckeye Primary School	2.3	602
Ella Canavan Elementary School	4.1	344
A. I. Root Middle School	1.8	670
Valley View Elementary School	0	329
Buckeye High School	0	579
Cloverleaf Middle School	0	595
Wadsworth Middle School	0	630
Highland Middle School	0	761
Overlook Elementary School	0	413
Buckeye Junior High School	0	310
Crestview Elementary School	0	451
Franklin Elementary School	0	247
Hinckley Elementary School	0	389
Lincoln Elementary School	0	225
Evolve Academy	0	12
Huntington Elementary School	0	483
Central Intermediate School	0	583
Cloverleaf High School	0	561
Granger Elementary School	0	508
Sidney Fenn Elementary School	0	403
H. G. Blake Elementary School	0	433
Ralph E. Waite Elementary School	0	453
Buckeye Intermediate School	0	584
Highland High School	0	1,022
Isham Memorial Elementary School	0	349
Brunswick Memorial Elementary School	0	375
Hickory Ridge Elementary School	0	417
Sharon Elementary School	0	663
Cloverleaf Elementary School	0	1,104
Walter Kidder Elementary School	0	496