Summit Academy Community School-Columbus

Summit Academy Community School-Columbus operates as a minimally staffed elementary campus in Columbus, Ohio, one of the schools within Summit Academy Community School-Columbus. Current enrollment sits at 54 students spanning grades K through 8. Compared to the state average of about 404 students per school, that is 87% smaller than typical.

Operationally, Summit Academy Community School-Columbus answers to Summit Academy Community School-Columbus, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

Looking at the student body, Summit Academy Community School-Columbus reports that 63% of the student body identifies as Black. The remainder comes out to 20% White, 9% multiracial, 7% Hispanic. By comparison, Franklin County as a whole is about 23% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 6 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical.

Around the school, census data for Franklin County shows median household income runs about $75,176, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Franklin County runs 402 public schools (combined enrollment of about 195,359 students), of which Summit Academy Community School-Columbus is one.

Summit Academy Transition High School-Columbus is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Summit Academy Community School-Columbus.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area. Summit Academy Community School-Columbus operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 32%: 80 students in 2018 compared to 54 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 30% to 20% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 22.4:1 in 2018 to 9.0:1 today.

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