Summary:
St Bernard-Elmwood Place City is a small Ohio district with just two schools — St Bernard-Elmwood Place Elementary School (PK–6, 381 students) and St Bernard-Elmwood Place Junior/Senior High School (7–12, 359 students), together serving 740 students. The district ranks 578 of 773 Ohio districts, in the 25th percentile with 1 star.
Between the two schools, the elementary school is the relatively stronger one. It holds 2 stars and has stayed near the 33rd–38th percentile over three years, while the high school has slipped from the 45th percentile in 2023–24 to the 26th percentile and 1 star in 2025–26. Chronic absenteeism tells a similar story: 23.5% at the elementary school versus 39.2% at the high school, compared with 31.2% district-wide. The elementary school's clearest academic strengths are 3rd Grade ELA (73.7% proficient vs. 63.4% statewide) and 6th Grade Mathematics (60.9% vs. 56.2%), both above state in two years running. The high school's standout results are its 98.6% graduation rate and Algebra I proficiency of 74.6% versus 61.6% statewide — also above state the prior year.
Families should know that most other tested subjects fall below state averages at both schools. The elementary school has persistent gaps in 4th Grade ELA, 6th Grade ELA, and 5th Grade Science, while the high school struggles most in Geometry (30.4% proficient) and English II (42.4%). The high school's combination of a very high graduation rate with low proficiency in several subjects suggests students are finishing school even as content mastery remains a concern. Note that free/reduced-lunch figures are blank for both schools, spending data date to 2018–19, and no state comparisons are given for graduation or absenteeism, so test scores are the strongest current evidence available.
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