Roselawn Condon School

Roselawn Condon School is a PK–8 school at 1594 Summit Rd in Cincinnati's Roselawn neighborhood, serving 383 students as part of Cincinnati Public Schools. It is mid-sized for its area — larger than Bond Hill Academy and Carthage, but about half the size of Pleasant Ridge Montessori School — and it has earned 1 star in each of the last ten reported years, placing it in the bottom quartile of Ohio schools. Its 2025–2026 standing (21st percentile) mirrors its district almost exactly.

The most important thing for parents to know is that this is not the same school at every grade level. Third-grade reading is a real strength: 69.8% of third graders were proficient in English Language Arts in 2025–2026, above both the district (58.9%) and the Ohio average (63.4%), and the school has beaten the district at that grade four years running. Grades 7 and 8 are the opposite — 9.1% proficiency in 7th-grade reading, 3.0% in 7th-grade math, and 6.1% in 8th-grade math, far below even the district's low averages. Roselawn outperforms Bond Hill Academy and the Academy for Multilingual Immersion Studies overall, yet trails both in middle-grade reading.

Chronic absenteeism is a serious headwind: at 47.6%, roughly one in two students misses enough school to be chronically absent. But it has fallen 13.4 points since 2021–2022, the largest improvement in this comparison set, and now sits within about 3 points of the district rate and better than Bond Hill Academy (60.2%) and ReGeneration Bond Hill (61.3%) — though still far above Pleasant Ridge Montessori School (28.0%), Carthage (28.8%) and Reading Elementary School (24.4%). Roselawn has the smallest classes among nearby district schools (11.4 students per teacher) and one of the lowest per-pupil spends ($8,847 in 2018–2019). Fifth-grade science has climbed from 10.7% to 22.6% over three years, and African American students ranked in the 60th percentile statewide with 3 stars in 2025–2026.