Alliance Community Schools Inc. dba Dayton Leadership Acade

Alliance Community Schools Inc. dba Dayton Leadership Acade is one of the medium-sized elementary campuss in Dayton, Ohio, operated by Alliance Community Schools Inc. dba Dayton Leadership Acade, with 552 students on its rolls from grades K through 8. That puts it 37% bigger than the typical public school in Ohio, which averages around 404 students.

Alliance Community Schools Inc. dba Dayton Leadership Acade sits inside Alliance Community Schools Inc. dba Dayton Leadership Acade, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

Looking at the student body, Alliance Community Schools Inc. dba Dayton Leadership Acade reports that 95% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Other groups include 4% multiracial. By comparison, Montgomery County as a whole is about 20% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school lists 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 20.4:1. The state averages around 17.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical.

In the surrounding community, Montgomery County reports that the typical household earns roughly $66,139 per year, about 31% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Montgomery County runs 160 public schools (combined enrollment of about 74,487 students), of which Alliance Community Schools Inc. dba Dayton Leadership Acade is one.

Edison Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies a city-core site. Alliance Community Schools Inc. dba Dayton Leadership Acade operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 123%: 248 students in 2018 compared to 552 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 16.2:1 in 2018 to 20.4:1 today.

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