✓ Ohio Scholarships (EdChoice)Grades K-12373 students13 students per teacherChristian (nondenominational)Co-ed75% to 4-year college
Christian schools in Dayton, OH
7 in Dayton or within 12 miles. 4 are on the state’s EdChoice / Cleveland Scholarship list. Protestant and nondenominational Christian schools, going by the affiliation each school gave the federal survey (for schools new since then in Florida, the state’s private school directory).
✓ Ohio Scholarships (EdChoice)Grades PreK-8108 students9.8 students per teacherLutheran Church (Missouri Synod)Co-ed
Lifeway Lead Academy
11 mi✓ Ohio Scholarships (EdChoice)Grades PreK-1262 students5.6 students per teacherPentecostalAlternativeCo-ed
✓ Ohio Scholarships (EdChoice, Jon Peterson)Grades PreK-12832 students10.2 students per teacherChristian (nondenominational)Co-ed59% to 4-year college
Grades PreK-12121 students7.7 students per teacherBaptistCo-ed50% to 4-year college
Grades PreK-KChristian (nondenominational)Early childhoodCo-ed
Grades K-1233 students5.2 students per teacherBaptistCo-ed75% to 4-year college
Christian schools near Dayton by the numbers
- Where
- 2 in Dayton, 5 within 12 miles
- Students
- about 1,529 in all; the typical school has 121
- Smallest and largest
- Bethel Baptist School, 33 students; Dayton Christian School, 832 students
- Students per teacher
- 9.8 typical, 5.2 to 15 across 7 schools
- Co-ed or single-sex
- all co-ed
- Association members
- 4, most often the Association of Christian Schools International
- To a 4-year college
- 75% of graduates at the typical high school (4 reporting)
- Verified tuition
- East Dayton Christian School $6,165
- State program
- Scholarship, $6,166 for grades K-8, $8,408 for grades 9-12
How EdChoice works
- Pre-K (and up)5
- Elementary (K to 5)7
- Middle (6 to 8)6
- High school (9 to 12)5
- K to 12, one school5
- Under 501
- 50 to 1493
- 150 to 2990
- 300 to 5991
- 600 or more1
- Christian schools here57%
- All of Ohio63%
Where these facts come from
- Grades, size, affiliation, co-ed, membership, college-going: NCES Private School Universe Survey 2023-24, downloaded September 20, 2026.
- Program list: Ohio EdChoice and Cleveland Scholarship schools, list read October 26, 2026.
- Award and rules: Ohio EdChoice Scholarship, official page, read October 2, 2026.
- Tuition for 1 school: each school’s own website, last read October 5, 2026.
Keep looking
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