Ellet Community Learning Center

Ellet Community Learning Center is a roomy 9-12 campus in Akron, Ohio, run under Akron City. The school works with 860 students in grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 565 students per school, that is 52% above typical.

Within Akron City, which oversees 47 schools and 20,570 students, Ellet Community Learning Center is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Ellet Community Learning Center shows that the most-represented group is White (53%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school reports 28% Black, 13% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 74% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Ellet Community Learning Center records 67 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.7:1, putting Ellet Community Learning Center tighter than the state norm the norm.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Summit County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $71,622 per year, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, Summit County runs 149 public schools (combined enrollment of about 69,214 students), of which Ellet Community Learning Center is one.

Summit Academy Akron Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Ellet Community Learning Center.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 17%: 1,030 students in 2018 compared to 860 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 65% to 53% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 17.0:1 in 2018 to 12.9:1 today.

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