Summit Academy-Youngstown

Summit Academy-Youngstown operates as a tiny elementary school in Youngstown, Ohio, operated by Summit Academy-Youngstown. Current enrollment sits at 124 students spanning grades K through 7. Enrollment runs roughly 69% leaner than the state mean of about 404.

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

On the student-mix side, Summit Academy-Youngstown reports that 38% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest reads as 36% Black, 14% Hispanic, 10% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 75% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 7.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.9:1 average.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Mahoning County) logs that median household earnings sit near $56,942, roughly 27% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 14% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Mahoning County's 77 public schools (combined enrollment of about 27,927 students), Summit Academy-Youngstown is one campus in the mix.

Stambaugh Charter Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Summit Academy-Youngstown.

The school occupies a downtown site. Summit Academy-Youngstown is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 41%: 210 students in 2018 compared to 124 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share decreased from 42% to 36%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 10.9:1 in 2018 to 7.5:1 today.

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