Dayton all-girls school to be co-ed next year

In this file photo from 2020, students at Dayton's Charity Adams Earley Girls Academy helped build raised garden beds to grow a variety of vegetables over the next few months. With assistance from Five Rivers MetroParks and parent volunteers the first through fourth grade students experienced first hand the smell of manure in compost mixtures and the feel of earth worms in the palm of their hands. FILE

Credit: Lisa Powell

Credit: Lisa Powell

In this file photo from 2020, students at Dayton's Charity Adams Earley Girls Academy helped build raised garden beds to grow a variety of vegetables over the next few months. With assistance from Five Rivers MetroParks and parent volunteers the first through fourth grade students experienced first hand the smell of manure in compost mixtures and the feel of earth worms in the palm of their hands. FILE
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March 14, 2023
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Dayton Public Schools announced Tuesday that all-girls school Charity Adams Earley Academy will be co-ed beginning this fall.

The building serves preschool through sixth grade and will allow both male and female students to enroll this fall.

In a press release, the district said the change was necessary due to a decline in enrollment at Charity Adams and to alleviate overcrowding at nearby elementary schools. Nearby elementary schools include Valerie, Belle Haven and Fairview. Charity Adams is located at 440 Shoup Mill Road, Dayton, in the northwest part of the city.

Current Charity Adams students are welcome to return next year. However, the building will no longer be considered a district-wide school, which means in order for students to receive yellow bus transportation, they must live within the quadrant and be 1.5 miles or more from the school.

The district said the “decision to make this change has not been easy.”

The district said they first informed Charity Adams parents of this news on Monday. Charity Adams is the last Dayton Public School to be single sex, according to the district.

Not all details have been finalized. Parents will be receiving more detailed information in the coming weeks and months.

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Eileen McClory is the education reporter for the Dayton Daily News. She grew up in the Dayton area and returned to cover her hometown.