Richard Allen Schools

2006-07:  The Beat Goes On!

The Downtown Campus again distinguished itself as the area’s top K-8 school in academic performance among 33 traditional and community K-8 elementary schools in Dayton. Our Hamilton Campus ranked 3rd; Edgemont Campus ranked 4th; and Dayton View Campus ranked 8th. The combined academic performance rating of the four campuses (87.2) surpassed 28 of 29 competing schools. Faculty and principals worked diligently with students and families to achieve these outstanding results.

Downtown retained its "Effective” rating on Ohio’s Local Report Card. The campus’s goal is to achieve an “Excellent” rating in 2007-08. Dayton View, Edgemont, and Hamilton’s goal is a rating of “Effective.”

The district experienced its eighth consecutive year of academic and programmatic success. Highlights from the 2006-07 school year include:

• The district’s unique Parent Leader program continued its remarkable pattern of growth and expansion. Parent Leaders are a special group who commit to helping us fulfill our vision and achieve our mission. They partner with homeroom teachers to provide volunteer support, and they actively seek to recruit like-minded parents to join their ranks.

•The district choir again entertained Dayton’s senior citizens at a hugely successful Christmas concert held at the venerable Masonic Temple. To show their appreciation for the concert, the seniors presented a musical thank you to the choir. Both groups were royally entertained.

•The Christmas season also saw the district host a dinner and gift giving party for some of our area’s most needy families. The Downtown Campus organized this important community outreach endeavor.

•The junior high basketball team won the Dayton CYO championship. The CYO league includes some of the best youth talent and competition in the area. Many of the league’s student athletes go on to the area’s top private high school teams. In addition, the district cheerleader team placed second in the very challenging CYO competitions.

•The Fordham Foundation, a Washington, D.C. based organization which helps establish and support charter schools, awarded the district a grant to establish after-school fine arts programs in dance/drama, creative writing/poetry, and art. These three new programs will complement the very successful after-school choir program. The objective is to extend the RAS school day in keeping with the established and proven strategies of successful community schools across the country.

•The district’s eighth annual Black History program was presented to a standing room only audience at the Dayton Convention Center’s theater in May. Again this year students and faculty combined for an evening of educational and entertaining musical and dramatic snapshots of yesterday’s struggles and triumphs.

The Richard Allen academic year closed with June commencement ceremonies in Dayton and Hamilton. Forty-eight Hamilton Campus kindergarten students and 12 sixth graders received diplomas at the Payne Chapel. In Dayton, graduation exercises were held at the Convention Center. One hundred and twelve kindergarteners and 50 eighth graders received diplomas.

The schools are ranked by Performance Index Score, which is the state's measure of a school's performance across all tests its students took.  Schools with a Performance Index Score of 90.0 to 99.9 are rated Effective on Ohio's Local Report Card.   Schools with a Performance Index Score of 100 to 120 are rated Excellent.