Future Forward Ohio is the Department’s strategic priorities to help students recover from the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. One of the priorities, student wellness, focuses on addressing barriers that prevent students from engaging in learning. The link between health and education is well documented. Healthy People 2030 emphasizes that a strong educational experience creates opportunities to improve an individual’s health through increased income, healthy behaviors, social and psychological benefits and healthier neighborhoods. In contrast, poor health can affect educational achievement by causing poor attendance, concentration problems and learning disabilities.

Through its continued partnership with the Ohio Department of Medicaid, the Ohio Department of Education provides the Ohio Healthy Students Profiles as a data resource for needs assessments and planning. The profiles describe health care interactions, health conditions and educational indicators for Medicaid-participating students. This information can be a resource for education administrators and other community stakeholders who influence the policies and programs that support student wellness in Ohio.

There are two ways to access the data:

• Use the search application shown below to find the profile for a selected school or district;
• Download an Excel spreadsheet of data for all schools, districts, and counties; or

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