Sam Salem Community Learning Center

Set in Akron, Ohio, Sam Salem Community Learning Center is a middle-of-the-pack elementary campus, part of Akron City. It works with 357 students across grades pre-K through 5.

Across the 47 schools in Akron City (20,570 students total), Sam Salem Community Learning Center accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Sam Salem Community Learning Center shows that the most-represented group is White (46%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 31% Black, 16% multiracial, 6% Hispanic. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 74%.

On the income-and-resources front, Sam Salem Community Learning Center shows 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.9:1 average.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Summit County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $71,622 per year, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Sam Salem Community Learning Center is one of 149 public schools in Summit County (combined enrollment of about 69,214 students).

Nearest neighbor: Innes Community Learning Center, around 1.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count held roughly steady: 350 students in 2018 compared to 357 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 61% to 46% across the same window.

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