Wright Brothers Middle School

Set in Dayton, Ohio, Wright Brothers Middle School is a modestly sized junior high, run under Dayton City. It enrolls 374 students across grades 7 through 8. By comparison, Ohio's public schools average about 482 students each, so Wright Brothers Middle School sits 22% leaner than that benchmark.

Dayton City comprises 26 schools with combined enrollment of 12,118 students; Wright Brothers Middle School is among them.

Looking at the student body, Wright Brothers Middle School lists that 36% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school lists 30% White, 25% Hispanic, 9% multiracial. By comparison, Montgomery County as a whole is about 20% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Wright Brothers Middle School reports 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.8:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.0:1 average.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Montgomery County) reports that median household earnings sit near $66,139, roughly 31% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Montgomery County runs 160 public schools (combined enrollment of about 74,487 students), of which Wright Brothers Middle School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Horizon Science Academy Dayton Downtown, around 0.6 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Wright Brothers Middle School operates from a city-core location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 13%: 429 students in 2018 compared to 374 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 48% to 30% across the same window.

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