Summary:
Richard Allen Preparatory is the only school in this data set: a K–8 elementary school serving 374 students on Odlin Ave in Dayton, Ohio (45405). It is also its own one-school district, Richard Allen Preparatory, which ranks 749th of 773 Ohio districts (0 stars as a district). With just one school here, there is no local peer to compare against — the useful comparison is between the school's own grades and subjects and Ohio's averages.
At Richard Allen Preparatory, results sit well below the state, but there are real bright spots. The best result in 2025–26 was 5th grade ELA at 52.4% proficient — still below the state's 70.4%. Next come 3rd grade ELA (37.9%), 4th grade ELA and 4th grade math (29.2% each), and 5th grade math (28.6%), which jumped from 6.3% the year before. Everything else falls below 21%, with 8th grade math at 5.9%, 7th grade ELA at 6.7%, and 3rd grade math at 6.7% after a 31.8-point one-year drop. All 28 school-vs-state test comparisons across two years favor the state. Averaged across grades, ELA (27.4%) leads math (15.7%) and science (15.4%), and grades 3–5 consistently outperform grades 7–8.
Three practical points stand out for families. Chronic absenteeism is 45.1% — nearly half of students miss 10% or more of the school year, which makes academic gains hard to hold. The student–teacher ratio is 13.8, which is not unusual on its face. The school is also showing early improvement: its state school rank rose from the 5th to the 10th percentile and its rating moved from 0 stars to 1 star, and two reported zeros in 2024–25 were eliminated. Note two data gaps: free/reduced-lunch information is not reported, and the $9,650 per-student spending figure dates to 2018–19.
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