I assume that ‘s’ is a typo for $2$ as the size of a maximal independent set in $C_5$.
If $i(n)$ is the maximal size of an independent set of vertices in $C_n$, you have:
$$\begin{array}{rcc} n:&3&4&5&6&7&8&9\\ i(n):&1&2&2&3&3&4&4 \end{array}$$
You can express this in many ways. The most straightforward is simply to use a two-part definition:
$$i(n)=\begin{cases}\frac{n}2,&\text{if }n\text{ is even}\\\\ \frac{n-1}2,&\text{if }n\text{ is odd}\;.\end{cases}$$
If you know the floor function, also called the greatest integer function, you can simply write
$$i(n)=\left\lfloor\frac{n}2\right\rfloor\;.$$
Other ways are more complicated. For instance, you can easily check that
$$i(n)=\frac12\left(n-\frac{1-(-1)^n}2\right)$$
gives the same result as the two-part definition, though I don’t recommend using this form!