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Ohio's community schools grew 16% since COVID. Traditional districts never recovered.
Ohio Virtual Academy enrolled 14,264 students in 2018-19. Two years later, with schools across the state shuttered or running hybrid schedules, it had surged to 20,900. By 2025-26, that number has set...
Ohio's Kindergarten Class Hits a Record Low
Correction (April 12, 2026): This article originally described the 2025-26 total enrollment loss of 19,611 as "the largest single-year decline in the dataset." The 2020-21 pandemic year saw a larger d...
Cleveland's Collapse: 29 Schools Closing as Enrollment Hits Bottom
Cleveland Municipal enrolled 32,369 students in 2025-26, the lowest figure in the district's modern records. That number is 6,474 fewer than in 2014-15, a 16.7% decline. By the district's own accounti...
Hispanic Enrollment Doubled in Ohio. Then It Stopped.
In 2015, Hispanic students made up fewer than one in 20 Ohio public school students. By 2026, the ratio is closer to one in 12. The 59,349-student increase, a 68.4% surge, occurred while the state's t...
Ohio Hits All-Time Enrollment Low as Losses Accelerate
Ohio lost 19,611 public school students this year. That is the second-largest single-year drop in at least 12 years, trailing only the pandemic plunge of 52,242 in 2020-21. What separates 2025-26 from...