Summary:
ZIP code 45416 in Dayton is served by four schools — three elementary schools (one of them a K–8 charter) and one high school — enrolling 2,058 students, with no standalone middle school in the area. Three of the four, Valerie Elementary School, Meadowdale High School and Belle Haven Elementary School, belong to Dayton City, which ranks 725th of 773 Ohio districts (6th percentile); Klepinger Community School is its own charter district, Klepinger Community School. Every school here sits in the bottom fifth of Ohio schools, and for 2025–26, 35 of 38 reported test cells (about 92%) landed below the state average.
Two schools are moving up and two are moving down. Klepinger Community School climbed from the 7th to the 19th percentile over three years — the highest rank in the ZIP — and is the only school with results above the state average: 6th-grade math at 70.4% (state 56.2%) and 7th-grade math at 51.2% (state 48.6%). Belle Haven Elementary School made the largest single-year jump (7th to 17th percentile), posted the ZIP's best result relative to benchmark (6th-grade math 66.2%, roughly 10 points above state), and has the lowest chronic absenteeism at 24.2%, far below the 43.8% district rate. By contrast, Valerie Elementary School has declined every year (7th to 2nd percentile) and is below its own district on all 9 of 9 tests, while Meadowdale High School dropped from the 18th to the 7th percentile and has the ZIP's worst absenteeism at 53.8%.
Attendance and academic direction line up here: the two schools with the lowest absenteeism are the two improving. Note that spending figures come from 2018–2019 and are not current comparators, and free/reduced-lunch percentages are blank for all four schools, so socioeconomic context cannot be measured from this data.
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