Montgomery Preparatory Academy

Montgomery Preparatory Academy is a K-5 school of small scale in Dayton, Ohio, one of the schools within Montgomery Preparatory Academy, instructing 237 students in grades K through 8. By comparison, Ohio's public schools average about 404 students each, so Montgomery Preparatory Academy sits 41% smaller than that benchmark.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, Montgomery Preparatory Academy reports that 55% of the student body identifies as Black. The remainder reads as 24% White, 11% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 3% Native American. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 20%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Montgomery County put the typical household earns roughly $66,139 per year, 31% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Montgomery Preparatory Academy is one of 160 public schools in Montgomery County (combined enrollment of about 74,487 students).

The closest other public school is Horace Mann Elementary School, roughly 0.8 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in a city-core setting. Montgomery Preparatory Academy is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Inside the community feed, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.