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Cincinnati Public Schools
3 of 5 stars overall · Ohio School Report Card 2025-26Cincinnati Public Schools’ school levies cost a home about $1,217 a year for every $100,000 of its value. Its pupils’ test scores rank 565th of Ohio’s 607 districts, and in 2024-25 it spent $21,511 per student to run its schools, well over the Ohio average of $17,609. All three are the state’s own figures: the Department of Taxation’s certified tax rates, the School Report Card and the District Profile Report.
Its homes are in Amberley, Cheviot, Golf Manor, Cincinnati, Silverton, Columbia Township, Green Township, Springfield Township and Sycamore Township.
What Cincinnati Public Schools’ school levies cost a home
$1,217 a year for every $100,000 of a home’s value, tax year 2025
That is Cincinnati Public Schools’ part of the property tax bill on a home its owner lives in: 36.85 mills, after House Bill 920’s reduction and the state’s rollback credits, less the new inflation cap credit, which takes 6% off it this year. A home the county values at $200,000 pays about $2,434 a year for its schools; at $300,000, about $3,651.
About $101 of every $1,217 pays for buildings, equipment and the loans for them — its bond levy. The rest is day-to-day money.
Its day-to-day levies stand at 20.06 mills on the state’s 2025 rates, above Ohio’s 20-mill floor, so when the county revalues homes their rate is cut and they collect the same dollars.
A home’s value here is the county’s value for it, not a sale price. The homestead exemption, for owners 65 and over or disabled, lowers it more. The county’s, your city’s or township’s and any library levies are on the same bill on top of this: check your own bill for all of it, or see every levy behind this figure.
Homeowners 65 and over in the Cincinnati Public Schools school district
30% of the homes their owners live in, in the Cincinnati Public Schools school district, belong to someone 65 or older — about 20,000 homes.
Hamilton County: 31% · Ohio: 33%
Owners who are 65 or older, or disabled, can claim Ohio’s homestead exemption, which takes part of a home’s value off the bill; most must have an income under the state’s limit. From the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey, 2020–2024 five-year estimates (table B25007, owner-occupied homes by the age of the householder). A survey, so every figure has a margin of error.
2Home values
What homes are worth against what they are taxed on
What homes in Cincinnati Public Schools are worth, and what they’re taxed on
Since January 2009, homes in the zip codes that make up Cincinnati Public Schools have risen 131% in value. The district’s taxable value of homes and farms rose 47% — not smoothly, but in steps each time values are reset — and inflation 60%.
How much each has risen since 2009
What homes are worth: Zillow’s typical home value in the district’s zip codes, monthly. What they are taxed on: the district’s taxable value of homes and farms, which moves when values are reset. Inflation: U.S. consumer prices.
- What homes are worth+131%
- What they are taxed on+47%
- Inflation+60%
| Tax year | Taxable value | Change | Values reset |
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| 2025 | $6.07B | 0% | |
| 2024 | $6.07B | 0% | |
| 2023 | $6.05B | +32% | Reappraisal |
| 2022 | $4.57B | 0% | |
| 2021 | $4.59B | +1% | |
| 2020 | $4.56B | +15% | Update |
| 2019 | $3.96B | +1% | |
| 2018 | $3.93B | 0% | |
| 2017 | $3.91B | +7% | Reappraisal |
| 2016 | $3.65B | 0% |
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Taxable value is 35% of what the county appraises, for the district’s homes and farmland, so it also grows as new homes are built. Zillow publishes home values by zip code, not school district, so this follows the zip codes that make up the district, each counted by how much of it lies inside; a month in which one zip’s figure jumps by more than any market moves is left out. Values reset every three years, alternating a full reappraisal and an update, on Hamilton County’s schedule. Sources: the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce’s District Profile Report and the Department of Taxation’s abstracts, Zillow’s Home Value Index and U.S. consumer prices (CPI-U).
3Levies & the ballot
Every levy collected here, and what is on the ballot
Every Cincinnati Public Schools levy still on the bill
These are the school district’s own levies. Anything else on the same bill — the county’s, your city’s, village’s or township’s, and any library, park or career-centre levy — belongs to someone else and is not in this list.
11 school levies approved by voters are still on Cincinnati Public Schools tax bills. The most recent was first approved in 2016, and the oldest in 1976 or earlier — the state’s records do not say which year, and why is below. Together they are 33.18 mills on a home its owner lives in, after House Bill 920’s reduction and after the state’s rollback credits — which is what is actually charged, not what the ballot said.
| First approved | Purpose | Mills on a home | Share of the district’s rate |
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| 2016 | Emergency $48,000,000 a year | 5.250 | 14.2% |
| 2013 | Emergency $51,500,000 a year | 4.926 | 13.4% |
| 2010 | Emergency $65,178,000 a year | 6.239 | 16.9% |
| 2003 | Bond repayment $480,000,000 borrowed | 2.888 | 7.8% |
| 2000 | Current expense | 3.164 | 8.6% |
| 1995 | Current expense | 2.166 | 5.9% |
| 1987 | Current expense | 2.611 | 7.1% |
| 1983 | Current expense | 0.829 | 2.2% |
| 1976 or earlier | Current expense | 2.010 | 5.5% |
| 1976 or earlier | Current expense | 1.881 | 5.1% |
| 1976 or earlier | Current expense | 1.222 | 3.3% |
| Never | Inside millage — no vote was ever taken on it | 3.666 | 9.9% |
| All | The district’s school rate | 36.851 | 100% |
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1 of them cost you more than the rate says
Ohio stopped paying the 10% and 2.5% rollback credits on new levies approved from the November 2013 ballot onward; renewals and substitute levies for older ones keep them. So 5.25 of these 36.85 mills arrive at full price, and the same millage on an older levy would cost a homeowner about an eighth less. The state’s rate file marks which levies qualify, and that mark is what this counts.
What these purposes mean
Current expense is the day-to-day money — salaries, heat, buses — and it is most of any district’s rate. Emergency and substitute levies are also day-to-day money, written to raise a fixed number of dollars a year rather than a fixed rate. Permanent improvement pays for buildings and equipment and may not be spent on salaries. Bond repayment is paying back money already borrowed, usually for a building, and it ends when the borrowing does. Classroom facilities is the state’s school-building programme, where the state pays a share and the district votes the rest.
Why some of them say “1976 or earlier”
House Bill 920 — the law that stops a levy collecting more money when values rise — took effect in 1976, so that is the first year the state tracks a reduction for. Everything voted before it is filed under 1976 and the certified records do not say which year it actually was. Statewide, 610 of Ohio’s 611 school districts have at least one, and here they are 5.11 of these 36.85 mills. So the honest reading of that row is “half a century ago at least”, not “1976”.
Tax year 2025, from the Department of Taxation’s certified rates: the school levies on one real bill, in the taxing district holding the most of this district’s home and farm value. The year is the one the state files each levy under, which is when it was first approved: a levy voters have since renewed keeps its original year, and an incremental levy’s later steps are shown with the vote they belong to. Each purpose is the state’s own, spelled one way — the certified file files “current expense” under eight different spellings. Inside millage is the up-to-ten mills a government may levy with no vote, and it is the part House Bill 920 does not hold down. Why a bill rises when a value does explains the rest.
Cincinnati Public Schools on the November 3, 2026 ballot
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Property tax, 7 mills
New SchoolsCurrent expenses · 5 years · from 2026
$245 a year for each $100,000 of the county auditor’s value
$100,000 × 35% = $35,000 taxed × 7 mills ($7.00 for each $1,000) = $245
For a home the county values at $200,000: $490 a year $250,000: $612.50 a year $300,000: $735 a year
These are first-year figures. A levy approved now is charged at its full voted rate, with none of the state’s rollback credits; when the county next revalues homes, the state lowers its rate so that it collects the same dollars. Your home’s county value is on your tax bill.
How its earlier votes went: since March 17, 2020, voters have decided 3 Cincinnati Public Schools tax issues — 3 passed and 0 failed. Renewals passed 3 of 3.
4Schools
Scores, spending and budgets
Test scoresSpendingSuperintendent payBudgetThe Report Card's figuresWhere the money comes from
Cincinnati Public Schools’ test scores: 565th of 607 districts
Ohio’s Performance Index scores every district on its pupils’ state tests, from 0 to 120. In 2025-26 Cincinnati Public Schools scored 71.0: 565th of Ohio’s 607 school districts, in the 90–100% band from the top. The state rates that achievement 2 of 5 stars, and its Progress — how much pupils grew compared with what their own earlier scores predicted — 4 of 5.
These are test scores, and test scores follow family income closely; Progress follows it much less. On the state’s own list, which also ranks community and STEM schools, Cincinnati Public Schools is 657th of 871. The state notes: “Student test results at one of the schools in this district are under review. This district's report card may not accurately reflect student performance. For further details, please contact the district directly.”
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| 2025-26 | 71.0 | 565 of 607 90–100% |
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| 2024-25 | 69.0 | 567 of 607 90–100% |
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| 2023-24 | 66.1 | 574 of 607 90–100% |
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| 2022-23 | 62.8 | 584 of 607 90–100% |
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| 2021-22 | — | 60.2 | 584 of 607 90–100% |
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Its schools, 2025-26
Of its 63 schools on the state’s list, Walnut Hills High School has the highest test scores: 113.3 on the Performance Index, 10th of Ohio’s 2,933 ranked schools.
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Walnut Hills High SchoolHigh School, grades 7-12. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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7-12 | 113.3 | 10 of 2933 top 10% |
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Spencer Center for Gifted and Exceptional StudentsHigh School, grades 3-12. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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3-12 | 109.4 | 58 of 2933 top 10% |
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Kilgour SchoolElementary School, grades K-6. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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K-6 | 109.2 | 63 of 2933 top 10% |
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Hyde Park SchoolElementary School, grades K-6. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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K-6 | 104.6 | 200 of 2933 top 10% |
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| Bramble School | P,K-8 | 100.9 | 396 of 2933 10–20% |
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Fairview-Clifton German Language SchoolElementary School, grades K-6. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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K-6 | 97.5 | 618 of 2933 20–30% |
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Sands Montessori SchoolElementary School, grades K-6,P. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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K-6,P | 95.4 | 789 of 2933 20–30% |
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School For Creative and Performing ArtsHigh School, grades K-12. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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K-12 | 85.4 | 1632 of 2933 50–60% |
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Clifton Area Neighborhood SchoolElementary School, grades K-6,P. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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K-6,P | 83.8 | 1750 of 2933 50–60% |
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Cheviot SchoolElementary School, grades K-6,P. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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K-6,P | 83.6 | 1762 of 2933 60–70% |
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Pleasant Ridge Montessori SchoolElementary School, grades K-6,P. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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K-6,P | 80.8 | 1949 of 2933 60–70% |
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Covedale SchoolElementary School, grades K-6,P. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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K-6,P | 80.5 | 1982 of 2933 60–70% |
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Silverton ElementaryElementary School, grades K-6,P. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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K-6,P | 78.1 | 2123 of 2933 70–80% |
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Parker Woods Montessori SchoolElementary School, grades K-6,P. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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K-6,P | 78.0 | 2133 of 2933 70–80% |
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George Hays-Jennie Porter SchoolElementary School, grades K-6,P. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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K-6,P | 77.2 | 2159 of 2933 70–80% |
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Clark Montessori High SchoolHigh School, grades 7-12. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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7-12 | 76.6 | 2192 of 2933 70–80% |
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James N. Gamble Montessori Elementary SchoolElementary School, grades K-6,P. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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K-6,P | 76.2 | 2210 of 2933 70–80% |
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Dater Montessori SchoolElementary School, grades K-6,P. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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K-6,P | 76.0 | 2224 of 2933 70–80% |
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Sayler Park SchoolElementary School, grades P,K,1-9. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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P,K,1-9 | 73.7 | 2296 of 2933 70–80% |
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CarthageElementary School, grades K-3. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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K-3 | 70.5 | 2394 of 2933 80–90% |
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Carson SchoolElementary School, grades K-6,P. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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K-6,P | 70.3 | 2397 of 2933 80–90% |
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John P. Parker SchoolElementary School, grades K-6,P. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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K-6,P | 70.0 | 2408 of 2933 80–90% |
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North Avondale Montessori SchoolElementary School, grades K-6,P. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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K-6,P | 69.6 | 2418 of 2933 80–90% |
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Westwood SchoolElementary School, grades K-6. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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K-6 | 69.6 | 2421 of 2933 80–90% |
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College Hill AcademyElementary School, grades K-5,P. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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K-5,P | 68.7 | 2445 of 2933 80–90% |
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Withrow University High SchoolHigh School, grades 9-12. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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9-12 | 68.4 | 2456 of 2933 80–90% |
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Mt. Washington SchoolElementary School, grades P,K-8. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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P,K-8 | 68.1 | 2462 of 2933 80–90% |
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Shroder High SchoolHigh School, grades 9-12. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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9-12 | 67.7 | 2470 of 2933 80–90% |
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Woodford AcademyElementary School, grades K-6,P. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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K-6,P | 67.4 | 2479 of 2933 80–90% |
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Midway SchoolElementary School, grades K-6,P. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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K-6,P | 65.4 | 2534 of 2933 80–90% |
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William H Taft Elementary SchoolElementary School, grades K-6,P. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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K-6,P | 65.2 | 2538 of 2933 80–90% |
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Hughes STEM High SchoolHigh School, grades 9-12. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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9-12 | 65.1 | 2541 of 2933 80–90% |
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Frederick Douglass SchoolElementary School, grades K-5,P. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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K-5,P | 64.7 | 2547 of 2933 80–90% |
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Western Hills University High SchoolHigh School, grades 9-12. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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9-12 | 63.8 | 2563 of 2933 80–90% |
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Hartwell Middle SchoolMiddle School, grades 4-8. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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4-8 | 63.1 | 2580 of 2933 80–90% |
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Chase SchoolElementary School, grades K-6,P. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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K-6,P | 62.1 | 2596 of 2933 80–90% |
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Aiken New Tech High SchoolHigh School, grades 9-12. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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9-12 | 61.2 | 2615 of 2933 80–90% |
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Winton Hills AcademyElementary School, grades K-5,P. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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K-5,P | 60.7 | 2622 of 2933 80–90% |
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Leap AcademyElementary School, grades P,K,1-7. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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P,K,1-7 | 60.4 | 2632 of 2933 80–90% |
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Rothenberg Preparatory AcademyElementary School, grades K-6,P. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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K-6,P | 59.3 | 2648 of 2933 90–100% |
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James N. Gamble Montessori High SchoolHigh School, grades 7-12. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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7-12 | 58.7 | 2664 of 2933 90–100% |
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Roberts AcademyElementary School, grades P,K-8. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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P,K-8 | 58.3 | 2670 of 2933 90–100% |
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Academy Of World Languages SchoolElementary School, grades P,K-8. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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P,K-8 | 58.0 | 2676 of 2933 90–100% |
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Roll Hill SchoolElementary School, grades K-6,P. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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K-6,P | 57.6 | 2684 of 2933 90–100% |
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Roselawn Condon SchoolElementary School, grades P,K-8. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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P,K-8 | 57.4 | 2690 of 2933 90–100% |
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Oyler SchoolHigh School, grades K-12,P. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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K-12,P | 57.0 | 2699 of 2933 90–100% |
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Woodward Career Technical High SchoolHigh School, grades 9-12. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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9-12 | 56.0 | 2710 of 2933 90–100% |
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Mt. Airy SchoolElementary School, grades K-5,P. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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K-5,P | 55.6 | 2718 of 2933 90–100% |
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Riverview East AcademyHigh School, grades 10-12. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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10-12 | 55.0 | 2730 of 2933 90–100% |
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Gilbert A. Dater High SchoolHigh School, grades 7-12. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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7-12 | 54.4 | 2745 of 2933 90–100% |
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Rees E. Price AcademyElementary School, grades K-6,P. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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K-6,P | 53.9 | 2752 of 2933 90–100% |
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Evanston Junior High SchoolJunior High School, grades 7-8. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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7-8 | 53.4 | 2759 of 2933 90–100% |
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Academy for Multilingual Immersion StudiesElementary School, grades P,K-8. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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P,K-8 | 52.8 | 2766 of 2933 90–100% |
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John J. Gilligan Digital AcademyHigh School, grades K-12. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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K-12 | 52.5 | 2772 of 2933 90–100% |
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Pleasant Hill Middle SchoolMiddle School, grades 6-8. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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6-8 | 51.1 | 2792 of 2933 90–100% |
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Bond Hill AcademyElementary School, grades K-6,P. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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K-6,P | 50.8 | 2803 of 2933 90–100% |
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Rockdale AcademyElementary School, grades K-5,P. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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K-5,P | 50.2 | 2814 of 2933 90–100% |
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Robert A. Taft Information Technology High SchoolHigh School, grades 7-12. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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7-12 | 48.1 | 2850 of 2933 90–100% |
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Ethel M. Taylor Junior High SchoolJunior High School, grades 7-8. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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7-8 | 46.8 | 2863 of 2933 90–100% |
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Shroder Middle SchoolMiddle School, grades 7-8. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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7-8 | 46.5 | 2868 of 2933 90–100% |
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South Avondale Middle SchoolElementary School, grades 6-8. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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6-8 | 43.8 | 2889 of 2933 90–100% |
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Virtual High SchoolHigh School, grades 9-12. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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9-12 | 36.5 | 2923 of 2933 90–100% |
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Dr. O'dell Owens Center for LearningElementary School, grades K-12. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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K-12 | 32.5 | 2929 of 2933 90–100% |
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Ohio Department of Education and Workforce, Performance Index and Value-Added rankings and the Report Card’s overall and component ratings, School Report Card downloads. Ranked here among the traditional districts (and their schools); a tie shares a rank. Every district and county.
What Cincinnati Public Schools spends per student
In 2024-25, Cincinnati Public Schools spent $21,511 per student to run its schools. That pays for teachers, buses, utilities and supplies for its 32,446 enrolled students; the cost of building schools and paying off their loans isn’t included. 52% of it went to teaching, compared with 57% statewide. The figures are the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce’s District Profile Report.
It had the equivalent of 2,539 full-time teachers that year, 12.8 students for each, against 14.2 across Ohio.
The state’s School Report Card shows $13,977 for the same money, because it divides by weighted pupils: why the two differ.
Ohio overall: 57%
Ohio overall: 10%
Ohio overall: 111
Ohio overall: 14
What each Cincinnati Public Schools student’s $21,511 pays for
Where it went in 2024-25, in the state’s own categories, with its building category split into running buildings, buses and school meals. They add to the $21,511 per student to the dollar, because they are the state’s own split of it.
- Teaching$11,212 per student 52%
- Administration$2,862 per student 13%
- Running buildings$2,183 per student 10%
- Pupil support$1,858 per student 9%
- Buses$1,459 per student 7%
- Staff support$1,088 per student 5%
- School meals$849 per student 4%
Administration is the state’s category and it includes every building principal’s office, not only the board and the central office, as the state’s Expenditure Flow Model handbook sets out.
How that share has moved
The teaching share for this district, every year we hold, drawn as one line per set of the department’s definitions. The gaps are deliberate: the categories were re-cut in FY2013 and the pupil count changed in FY2022, so a line across either would draw a definition as a decision this district made.
Share of Cincinnati Public Schools’ spending that goes to teaching
Ohio District Profile Reports for this district, as published. One district’s single year can move several points and come back — a building project, a grant, a year a category was filed differently — so read the run rather than the point. FY2014’s revenue figures are a known bad workbook statewide; its spending figures, which are what this chart draws, are not affected.
- FY22–FY2552.12%
- FY13–FY2153.68%
- FY10–FY1247.18%
What Cincinnati Public Schools pays its superintendent
The superintendent’s post at Cincinnati Public Schools changed hands in 2024-25; those who held it were paid at $261,504 a year on average.
Its treasurer, who keeps the district’s books, was paid $272,939, high for a district of its size.
From 2005-06 to 2022-23, its superintendent’s salary went from $197,500 to $260,000: +32%, against +36% for Ohio’s middle district and +51% for prices.
Cincinnati Public Schools’ superintendent, 2005-06 to 2022-23
Salaries as paid in each year, one person in the post all year. A step is often a new superintendent. No point for 2013-14, 2020-21, when the post changed hands, was shared or was reported for part of the year; the line runs straight across.
- This district$260,000
- Ohio's middle district$135,594
The state’s figures; the package is our estimate. Every district in Hamilton County, and how the estimate is made →
Cincinnati Public Schools’ budget forecast
What the district itself forecasts, in the budget it files with the state — the Fiscal Year 2027 First Required Forecast (Fall).
- Cash, June 30, 2026
- $43.0M
- Runs short
- FY2029
- New levy in the forecast
- Property tax
0.8 months of that year’s spending
on its own forecast, if its levies are renewed and no new one passes
from FY2027, not yet approved by voters
The full budget: cash, unencumbered and unreserved balances, and every line of the forecast →
Cincinnati Public Schools’ own notes and assumptions for this forecast (PDF) →
Why the state’s Report Card shows different numbers
Ohio publishes two sets of school spending figures, and both are the state’s own. This page uses the District Profile Report: day-to-day spending divided by the pupils actually enrolled. Cincinnati Public Schools’ School Report Card works it out differently:
- Its per-pupil figure is lower. It divides by weighted pupils (Financial Data Technical Documentation): students with disabilities, economically disadvantaged students and English learners count as more than one pupil. In 2024-25 Cincinnati Public Schools spent $697,962,701 on day-to-day costs. This page divides that by the 32,446 pupils enrolled: $21,511. The Report Card divides the same money by 49,937 weighted pupils: $13,977. Its newest edition may be for a later year than this page.
- Its classroom share is higher. Its “classroom instruction” adds pupil support (counselling, nurses, psychologists) and staff training to teaching. Counted that way, this page’s figures come to 66% here.
Where Cincinnati Public Schools’ money comes from
2024-25: every dollar that came in, from every source — $21,348 a student — and who it came from. It is not all spent on running the schools in the same year, so it does not match the spending above.
| Source | Total | Per student | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Local taxes | $343.6M | $10,590 | 50% |
| The state | $181.3M | $5,587 | 26% |
| Washington | $109.7M | $3,380 | 16% |
| Fees, tuition and interest | $58.1M | $1,790 | 8% |
| All of it | $692.7M | $21,348 | 100% |
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Where the money comes from is the state’s split, by the accounting code each district files it under. A district’s bookkeeping can put local money, such as payments from development (TIF) districts, in another column.
Property tax billed for tax year 2024, on every kind of property in the district (the career-tech district’s levies aside): $12,352 a pupil — of which the state pays $899 as rollback and homestead credits, and owners pay the rest. It is not a slice of the local line above: that line is money received in the 2025 school year, the two cover different years, and not every bill is paid.
Taxable value behind it: $293,004 a pupil, so each mill of tax raises about $293 a pupil. Where the state’s share comes from, including the lottery.
The rest of Hamilton County
Every district with homes in the county, largest presence first. Cincinnati Public Schools is one of 23.
Northwest Local · Forest Hills Local · Sycamore Community City · Indian Hill Exempted Village · Oak Hills Local · Princeton City · Southwest Local · Winton Woods City · Loveland City · Madeira City · Mariemont City · Mt Healthy City · Wyoming City · Three Rivers Local · Norwood City · Deer Park Community City · Finneytown Local · Reading Community City · North College Hill City · St Bernard-Elmwood Place City · Lockland Local · Milford Exempted Village
Hamilton County’s own page has what its homes are billed and where that money goes; the statewide picture has the same figures for all 606 districts in the state’s report, the ones it leaves out, and what the data cannot say.
This is an estimate built from public records — not tax, legal or financial advice, and not an appraisal. Only your county’s own statement is authoritative about your bill. If you’re thinking of challenging your value, confirm the details with your county’s Board of Revision or a property-tax professional. The full terms.