DECA is located on the campus of the University of Dayton. It was reorganized as a charter school in July 2007. DECA was opened as a Dayton Public School, the result of a partnership between the University of Dayton and the public school district. The Dayton Early College Academy was established in 2003 under the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's Early College High School Initiative, with support from the Cincinnati-based KnowledgeWorks Foundation. This school year, DPS opened River's Edge Montessoi School and Fairview PreK-8 School and will later open the new Belmont High School and Wright Brothers PreK-8 School. To date, 24 of 26 schools have been built and occupied. The district, in the final segment of its $627 million school construction program, is providing teachers and students with new facilities and state-of-the-art technology to prepare for success in a global economy. The centers are part of the district’s initiative to create strong neighborhood schools. Fitz Center for Leadership in Community, and a host of local businesses and health and social service organizations to operate five Dayton Public preK-8 schools as community centers in the after-school hours. DPS is partnering with the Dayton Foundation, the University of Dayton’s Raymond L. Ponitz Career Technology Center, International Baccalaureate at Meadowdale, and visual and performing arts at Stivers School for the Arts. These include cutting-edge career pathways at David H. Because students learn in different ways, DPS families will find single-gender and Montessori schools at the PK-8 level and programs that challenge students at the high school level.
Students benefit from a solid academic program in our 30 schools and two special centers. The diversity of our student body is matched only by the variety of our academic offerings. DPS has produced 20 Gates millennium scholars since 2000, and four National Coca-Cola Finalists since 2003-two of whom were national winners. One of our high schools, Stivers School for the Arts, was ranked among America’s best public high schools for two years in a row by U.S. Dayton Public Schools is an urban district of approximately 15,000 students in pre-kindergarten through high school with a graduation rate of (84.4%) and more National Board Certified teachers than any other district in the Dayton region.
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