Mound Street Academy

As a very small senior high in Dayton, Ohio, Mound Street Academy hosts 156 students from grades 9 through 12, overseen by Dayton City. Compared to the state average of about 565 students per school, that is 72% smaller than typical.

Across the 26 schools in Dayton City (12,118 students total), Mound Street Academy accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Mound Street Academy logs that the largest single group is Black, at 65% of enrollment; the rest looks like 17% White, 14% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Montgomery County as a whole is about 20% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Mound Street Academy records 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.0:1. The state averages around 17.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical.

In the surrounding community, census data for Montgomery County shows the typical household earns roughly $66,139 per year, about 31% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Montgomery County runs 160 public schools (combined enrollment of about 74,487 students), of which Mound Street Academy is one.

David H. Ponitz Career Technology Center is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Mound Street Academy.

Mound Street Academy operates from an inner-city location.

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