Smith Intermediate School

Located at 3625 Little York Rd, in Dayton, Ohio, Smith Intermediate School is an expansive elementary-level community that hosts 642 students (grades 3 through 5), operated by Vandalia-Butler City. Enrollment runs roughly 59% bigger than the state mean of about 404.

Within Vandalia-Butler City, which oversees 6 schools and 3,018 students, Smith Intermediate School is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Smith Intermediate School reports that 70% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder looks like 13% multiracial, 12% Black, 5% Hispanic. Compared to Montgomery County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.8:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 45% of students at Smith Intermediate School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, Smith Intermediate School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 71.7%; this one delivers 71.0%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Montgomery County shows 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%. Across Montgomery County's 160 public schools (combined enrollment of about 74,487 students), Smith Intermediate School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Morton Middle School, roughly 1.6 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 4 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Smith Intermediate School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 51.7%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Smith Intermediate School has ticked up 41%, going from 455 students in 2018 to 642 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 77% to 70%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 19.5:1 in 2018 to 17.8:1 in 2025.

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