At $27,381 per pupil, Summit Academy Community School Alternative Learners-Lorain ranks #32 of 981 Ohio districts by per-pupil spending (Ohio districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Summit Academy Community School Alternative Learners-Lorain operates 1 public schools serving 63 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 Lorain County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $27,381 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the top 99 of 981 Ohio districts by per-pupil spending. See how Ohio compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 0.3% local, 60.5% state, and 39.1% 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 66.7% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 56.5% White, 26.1% Hispanic or Latino, 8.7% African American across the district's schools.
Summit Academy Community School Alternative Learners-Lorain accounts for 100.0% of all Summit Academy Community School Alternative Learners-Lorain student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Summit Academy Community School Alternative Learners-Lorain a distant remainder — means Summit Academy Community School Alternative Learners-Lorain-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade band: elementary. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how the district allocates programs, capital, or staff. Because it contains a majority of the affected population, enrollment-weighted aggregates will sit closer to this entity's reported fields than to those of smaller peers; an unweighted entity count answers a different question.
Summit Academy Community School Alternative Learners-Lorain chronic absenteeism rate is 66.7% — 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 Summit Academy Community School Alternative Learners-Lorain's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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How many schools are in Summit Academy Community School Alternative Learners-Lorain?
Summit Academy Community School Alternative Learners-Lorain has 1 school, including 1 elementary. Total enrollment is 63 students.
How much does Summit Academy Community School Alternative Learners-Lorain spend per student?
Summit Academy Community School Alternative Learners-Lorain spends $27,381 per student.
What is the demographic composition of Summit Academy Community School Alternative Learners-Lorain?
Summit Academy Community School Alternative Learners-Lorain students are 56.5% White, 26.1% Hispanic or Latino, 8.7% African American, averaged across 1 school. Source: NCES CCD Membership 2024-25.