Bennett Venture Academy

As a moderately sized K-5 school in Toledo, Ohio, Bennett Venture Academy serves 460 students from grades K through 8, run under Bennett Venture Academy.

Operationally, Bennett Venture Academy answers to Bennett Venture Academy, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

Looking at the student body, Bennett Venture Academy lists that the largest single group is Black at 50%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest consists of 18% White, 16% Hispanic, 15% multiracial. By comparison, Lucas County as a whole is about 19% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.9:1 average.

Across the wider county, Lucas County reports that median household earnings sit near $62,224, about 29% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. Across Lucas County's 143 public schools (combined enrollment of about 73,839 students), Bennett Venture Academy is one campus in the mix.

Mayfair is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Bennett Venture Academy.

The campus sits in a high-density setting. As a public charter, Bennett Venture Academy runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Looking at the recent track record. Bennett Venture Academy's enrollment has fell 36% since 2018, when it stood at 716 (now 460). The White share of enrollment ticked down from 36% to 18% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 23.1:1 in 2018 to 9.1:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.