Education
Mansfield Public Schools enroll 4,707 students in public primary and secondary schools. The district administers 9 public schools including five elementary schools, one intermediate school, one middle school, one high school, and one alternative school. Other than public schools, the city is home to two private Catholic schools, St. Mary's Catholic School and St. Peter's High School along with St. Peter's Junior High and St. Peter's Elementary School and two Christian schools, Mansfield Christian School and Temple Christian School. The Madison Local School District serves eastern parts of Mansfield, neighboring Madison, Mifflin, and Washington townships.
Mansfield is home to three institutions of higher learning. The Ohio State University has a regional campus at Mansfield, North Central State College, a community college that shares the Mansfield Campus with OSU. and Ashland University's Dwight Schar College of Nursing, a private institution that has a new facility in Mansfield getting ready to open in the fall of 2012 offers programs of study in nursing.
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