Thurgood Marshall High School

Set in Dayton, Ohio, Thurgood Marshall High School is a mid-sized senior high, one of the schools within Dayton City. It teaches 548 students across grades 9 through 12.

Dayton City runs 26 schools in total, collectively educating 12,118 students. Thurgood Marshall High School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Thurgood Marshall High School records that nearly all students (80%) are Black. The remainder is composed of 10% White, 5% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 20%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Thurgood Marshall High School has 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.7:1. The state averages about 17.7:1, putting this campus right in line with peers.

In the area at large, census data for Montgomery County shows median household earnings sit near $66,139, roughly 31% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Montgomery County runs 160 public schools (combined enrollment of about 74,487 students), of which Thurgood Marshall High School is one.

The closest other public school is The International School, roughly 0.3 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Thurgood Marshall High School.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 7%: 587 students in 2018 compared to 548 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment shrank from 91% to 80% over that span.

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