Summary:
ZIP code 45402 in Dayton, Ohio is home to five high schools serving grades 7 through 12 — Stivers School For The Arts, David H. Ponitz Career Technology Center, Mound Street Academy, Riverscape Career Technical, and Dayton Business Technology High School — with a combined enrollment of 1,985 students, most of them concentrated in the two largest campuses.
Stivers School For The Arts is the clear academic standout: ranked 339 of 795 (57th percentile, 3 stars), the only school here above the 50th percentile, with a 90.0% graduation rate, 31.7% chronic absenteeism, and test scores above state in American Government (85.1%), American History (86.5%), Biology (78.8%), and English II (73.2%). David H. Ponitz Career Technology Center has the highest graduation rate at 93.9%, yet ranks in the 9th percentile with 70.4% chronic absenteeism. Mound Street Academy posts the lowest graduation rate (21.2%) and the highest absenteeism (95.6%). Riverscape Career Technical has the weakest test-score profile, while the smallest school, Dayton Business Technology High School (62 students), is the only one showing an upward rank trend, reaching the 12th percentile with 1 star.
Two takeaways matter most for parents. First, chronic absenteeism is high almost everywhere: only Stivers is below the Dayton City district rate of 43.8%, and four schools exceed 70%. Second, graduation rates and test proficiency tell different stories — Ponitz graduates most students but has low proficiency, and math is the weakest subject group across all five schools. Note that test data covers 2025–2026 for three schools but 2024–2025 for Riverscape and Dayton Business Technology, free/reduced-lunch data is reported for only one school, and spending figures are from 2018–2019.
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