City Day Community School

City Day Community School, a tight-knit primary school in Dayton, Ohio, operated by City Day Community School, serves 170 students, covering grades K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 58% smaller than the state mean of about 404.

City Day Community School is a school of City Day Community School, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

Demographically, City Day Community School lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (89%). Other groups include 9% multiracial. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 20%.

Looking at school resources, City Day Community School lists 7 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 24.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.9:1, putting City Day Community School higher than the state norm the norm.

In the surrounding community, census data for Montgomery County shows the typical household earns roughly $66,139 per year, 31% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. City Day Community School is one of 160 public schools in Montgomery County (combined enrollment of about 74,487 students).

Dayton Career Tech High 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.

City Day Community School operates from a metropolitan location. As a public charter, City Day Community School runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at City Day Community School has increased 12%, going from 152 students in 2018 to 170 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 95% to 89% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 152.0:1 in 2018 to 24.3:1 in 2025.

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