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Dayton, Ohio - 1 schools
At $14,437 per pupil, Dayton Smart Elementary School ranks #385 of 966 Ohio districts by per-pupil spending (Ohio districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Dayton Smart Elementary School operates 1 public schools serving 81 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Ohio. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 elementary schools, a small enough portfolio that most families will interact with nearly every campus in the district at some point. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in Montgomery County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $14,437 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 966 Ohio districts by per-pupil spending. See how Ohio compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 0.1% local, 75.4% state, and 24.5% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles.
and 61.7% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 41.5% Hispanic or Latino, 38.3% African American, 7.4% White across the district's schools.
Dayton Smart Elementary School accounts for 100.0% of all Dayton Smart Elementary School student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Dayton Smart Elementary School a distant remainder — means Dayton Smart Elementary School-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: elementary. A single dominant campus often anchors a district's program offerings and staffing patterns; the share helps explain why district-wide averages may not reflect the typical neighbourhood-school experience. When one entity dominates a region's footprint, its programmatic and budget decisions effectively set policy for a majority of the affected population.
Dayton Smart Elementary School chronic absenteeism rate is 61.7% — well above typical (typically associated with unusually large scale or acute resource constraints)
chronic absenteeism rate is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: a student is chronically absent if they miss ≥10% of enrolled days for any reason, illness, family obligations, or disengagement Values this far above typical often signal acute resource constraints or a structurally different scale than most peers — worth reading alongside the underlying counts, not the ratio alone.
Comparisons are relative to Dayton Smart Elementary School's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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