Harman Elementary School

Located at 735 Harman Ave, in Dayton, Ohio, Harman Elementary School is an average-sized elementary campus that hosts 403 students (grades 1 through 6), operated by Oakwood City.

Across the 5 schools in Oakwood City (2,002 students total), Harman Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Harman Elementary School shows that nearly all students (82%) are White; the rest breaks down as 8% multiracial, 4% Asian, 4% Hispanic. By comparison, Montgomery County as a whole is about 68% White, so the school skews considerably more White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.9:1 average. Around 4% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Montgomery County (around 42%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

With demographic context factored in, Harman Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 87.4%, the actual is 91.1%, a residual of +3.7 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Montgomery County) reports that median household income runs about $66,139, roughly 31% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Harman Elementary School is one of 160 public schools in Montgomery County (combined enrollment of about 74,487 students).

Oakwood Junior High 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 Harman Elementary School.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 11%: 453 students in 2018 compared to 403 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 17.4:1 in 2018 to 16.1:1 today.

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