Summary
Klepinger Community School is an elementary public charter school in Dayton, Ohio, serving grades K-8 with a total enrollment of 541 students. The school has consistently ranked among the lowest-performing elementary schools in the state, with a statewide ranking between 1225 and 1571 out of over 1,600 schools in recent years. Klepinger Community School is part of the Klepinger Community School District, which is ranked 706 out of 828 districts in Ohio and has a 1-star rating out of 5 from SchoolDigger.
Klepinger Community School faces significant challenges, with high chronic absenteeism rates ranging from 45.2% to 71.7%, which are significantly higher than the state average and the rates of nearby schools like Westwood Elementary, Valerie Elementary, and North Dayton School of Discovery. The school's academic performance is also poor, with proficiency rates ranging from 8.7% in 3rd-grade Mathematics to 40.5% in 6th-grade Mathematics, well below the state averages. Additionally, Klepinger Community School has a high student-teacher ratio, ranging from 42.1 to 59.6 students per teacher in recent years, which is significantly higher than the nearby schools.
While Klepinger Community School's overall performance is concerning, the school has shown some relative strength in its performance with disabled students, ranking 129 out of 1,021 Ohio elementary schools in the 2017-2018 school year. However, the school's spending per student ($7,203 in 2018-2019) is lower than the nearby Dayton City public schools, which spend between $10,159 and $12,613 per student. To improve, the school may need to address the root causes of chronic absenteeism, implement targeted academic interventions, and consider strategies to reduce its student-teacher ratio, potentially through collaboration with the higher-performing nearby schools.
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