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DAYTON—The Dayton School Board heard about enrollment numbers from Superintendent Doug Johnson at their regular meeting on Sept. 7.

Johnson said that school enrollment on the first count day was right at four hundred, higher than it was in September, 2015 and he said it is only the second time in the past nine years the count has been higher than the end of the prior year enrollment.

“This is a very good sign for us,” Johnson said.

Johnson said he is concentrating on the goal of making Dayton the school of choice, and that some students have come back to Dayton schools from other districts. “W...