Steel Academy

Located at 1570 Creighton Ave, in Akron, Ohio, Steel Academy is an one-room-style secondary school that enrolls 82 students (grades 9 through 12), run under Steel Academy. Enrollment runs roughly 85% leaner than the state mean of about 565.

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

On demographics, Steel Academy shows that the largest single group is Black, at 65% of enrollment; the rest looks like 21% White, 10% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 14% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Steel Academy logs 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.7:1 average.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Summit County) reports 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%. In all, Summit County runs 149 public schools (combined enrollment of about 69,214 students), of which Steel Academy is one.

Cascade Career Prep High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

The school occupies a downtown site. Steel Academy operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 9%: 90 students in 2018 compared to 82 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 69% to 21%. Class-load math has rose: from 9.0:1 in 2018 to 10.9:1 in 2025.

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