JANE B. STRANCH, Circuit Judge. John Doe sued Oberlin College, the Oberlin College Board of Trustees, the College’s Title IX Coordinator Rebecca Mosely, and ten unnamed Oberlin College Defendants (collectively, Oberlin) in Ohio state court during the Title IX office’s ongoing investigation into a fellow student’s sexual misconduct accusation against him. In addition to state common law claims, Doe alleged that the investigation violated federal due process and Title IX. After removal to federal court, the district court sua sponte dismissed the federal due process claim with prejudice and dismissed the remaining claims without prejudice. Doe filed this timely appeal.

Although the district court did not follow the appropriate process for an on-the-merits, sua sponte dismissal of Doe’s federal due process claim, Oberlin is not a state actor subject to federal due process requirements. Dismissal on the merits was therefore proper, and we AFFIRM. Regarding Doe’s remaining claims, the district court was correct to dismiss them for lack of ripeness, but subsequent factual developments have ripened the claims on appeal. We REMAND those remaining claims to the district court for further proceedings consistent with this opinion.