Dayton Athletic Vocational Academy

Dayton Athletic Vocational Academy operates as a very small four-year high school in Dayton, Ohio, one of the schools within Dayton Athletic Vocational Academy. Current enrollment sits at 95 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 83% below the state mean of about 565.

Dayton Athletic Vocational Academy is a school of Dayton Athletic Vocational Academy, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

In terms of who attends, Dayton Athletic Vocational Academy shows that 64% of the student body identifies as Black. Beyond that, the school records 18% White, 11% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 20% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Dayton Athletic Vocational Academy has 5 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 19.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.7:1, putting Dayton Athletic Vocational Academy higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 97% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Montgomery County (around 42%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Dayton Athletic Vocational Academy sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 52.2%; actual is 24.7%, a gap of -27.6 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Montgomery County indicate 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%. In all, Montgomery County runs 160 public schools (combined enrollment of about 74,487 students), of which Dayton Athletic Vocational Academy is one.

Engage High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Dayton Athletic Vocational Academy.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area. Dayton Athletic Vocational Academy operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Dayton Athletic Vocational Academy has declined 42%, going from 164 students in 2018 to 95 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment contracted from 91% to 64% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 50.3:1 in 2018 to 19.0:1 today.

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