Youngstown Times

There were 12,745 students enrolled in Columbiana 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.

Boys made up 50.9% of the county's student body, while the other 49.1% were girls.

Data also showed that white, Non-Hispanic students made up 89.2% of the student body, the largest percentage in Columbiana County schools, followed by multiracial students with 4.3%, 2.6% Hispanic students and 1.3% Black, Non-Hispanic students.

Salem High School had the highest enrollment among Columbiana County's 35 schools in the 2023-24 cycle, welcoming 640 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	Total enrollment in 2022-23	Total enrollment in 2023-24	% change
Salem High School	635	640	0.8
Beaver Local Elementary School	636	620	-2.5
East Liverpool High School	523	558	6.7
Beaver Local Middle School	554	550	-0.7
United High School	579	548	-5.4
Buckeye on-Line School for Success	557	515	-7.5
Beaver Local High School	471	495	5.1
United Elementary School	483	441	-8.7
Crestview Elementary School	456	433	-5
Buckeye Elementary School	429	430	0.2
East Palestine Elementary School	437	405	-7.3
Joshua Dixon Elementary School	404	399	-1.2
Southern Local Junior-Senior High School	419	398	-5
Southern Local Elementary School	387	384	-0.8
North Elementary School	405	383	-5.4
David Anderson Junior-Senior High School	373	381	2.1
Crestview Middle School	383	375	-2.1
Lacroft Elementary School	345	336	-2.6
McKinley Elementary School	354	324	-8.5
East Liverpool Junior High School	292	305	4.5
Crestview High School	312	302	-3.2
South Side Middle School	315	296	-6
Columbiana High School	299	293	-2
Westgate Middle School	301	292	-3
Southeast Elementary School	294	286	-2.7
Salem Junior High School	312	284	-9
Leetonia Elementary K-6	258	273	5.8
East Palestine Middle School	270	270	0
Reilly Elementary School	261	268	2.7
East Palestine High School	255	264	3.5
Wellsville Jr. Senior High School	228	243	6.6
Leetonia Junior-Senior High School	228	214	-6.1
Garfield Elementary School	266	205	-22.9
Daw Elementary School	181	196	8.3
Utica Shale Academy of Ohio	113	127	12.4