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What happens when under-resourced students are given the resources we all need to thrive? This.
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The Greater Dayton School is Ohio’s first private non-religious school exclusively for under-resourced students. Our model is predicated on personalized instruction, whole-child learning, wraparound services, long-term outcomes, low student-teacher ratios, multi-age classrooms and family involvement.
Watch a student’s story
Every thing we do is 100-percent focused on 100 percent of the student.
Watch a teacher’s story
We don’t just hire teachers. We RECRUIT America’s best educators.
Revolutionary results
Closing the achievement gap in a single year.
When students enter GDS, their test scores average in the 35th percentile nationally, highlighting the well-known achievement gap between income levels. Yet, at the end of their first year, these same students score in 57th percentile, more than closing the income achievement gap.
Whole-child outcomes Our ultimate metric is adult success. So we measure everything along the way. See the facts
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The Greater Dayton School
The Greater Dayton School