Discovery Academy

Discovery Academy, a close-knit K-5 school in Toledo, Ohio, operated by Discovery Academy, caters to 316 students, covering grades K through 6. By comparison, Ohio's public schools average about 404 students each, so Discovery Academy sits 22% smaller than that benchmark.

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

Demographically, Discovery Academy shows that 51% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 26% White, 12% Hispanic, 11% multiracial. By comparison, Lucas County as a whole is about 19% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.8:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.9:1, putting Discovery Academy tighter than the state norm the norm.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Lucas County indicate the typical household earns roughly $62,224 per year, roughly 29% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. Across Lucas County's 143 public schools (combined enrollment of about 73,839 students), Discovery Academy is one campus in the mix.

Hope Learning Academy of Toledo is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

The school occupies a metropolitan site. Discovery Academy is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count changed only slightly: 321 students in 2018 compared to 316 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share shrank from 65% to 51%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 21.4:1 in 2018 to 15.8:1 today.

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