ReGeneration Middle School

ReGeneration Middle School is a small charter middle school serving 154 students in grades 5–8 in Cincinnati's Avondale neighborhood, and it operates as its own single-school district. Statewide, that district ranks 713th of 773 (8th percentile, 0 stars), and the school itself has sat in the bottom sixth of Ohio middle schools for three straight years — 14th percentile in 2025–26, down slightly from 18th the year before. Its 2025–26 proficiency rates on the Ohio State Tests average near 23%, compared with roughly 59% statewide. Math is the weakest area, with grade-level results ranging from 11.1% to 26.1%.

The clearest bright spot is attendance. Chronic absenteeism has fallen from 84.5% to 70.7% to 61.1% over three years — a 23.4-point improvement, the steepest drop in its comparison group — though 61.1% is still well above the Cincinnati Public Schools rate of 44.6%. Test scores are also rising across nearly every subject, led by 8th grade, where ELA proficiency climbed from 10.5% to 30.4% since 2023–24. With roughly 38 students per grade, single-year swings in either direction can be noisy, so the multi-year upward trend is the more reliable signal.

Compared with nearby schools, ReGeneration sits at or near the top of a very low-performing cluster: South Avondale Middle School, 0.35 miles away, trails on nearly every shared measure and has 78.1% chronic absenteeism. Against Evanston Junior High School (1.65 mi), results are close, but Evanston achieves them with a 10.9:1 student-teacher ratio versus ReGeneration's 22:1 — the highest in the group and up from 19.6:1 the prior year. Suburban schools such as Norwood Middle School and White Oak Middle School roughly double ReGeneration's proficiency. No free/reduced-lunch percentage or per-student spending figure is reported for this school.