Best Public Schools in Zip Code 45015

ZIP code 45015 is served by a single public school — Linden Elementary School, an elementary campus in the Hamilton City district with 674 students in grades PK–6. The area has no public middle schools, high schools, or alternative schools in this data set, so every local public-school figure comes from Linden. That means parents here should read the numbers as a profile of one school rather than a comparison among neighbors; the most useful benchmarks are how Linden stacks up against its own district and against Ohio as a whole.

Linden looks comparatively strong within Hamilton City. It earns 2 stars and sits in the 37th percentile statewide, while the district overall is at 1 star and the 26th percentile. Chronic absenteeism is 20.6% at the school versus 31.1% in the district — roughly 10.5 percentage points lower, though it still means about 1 in 5 students are chronically absent. The clearest academic bright spot is 5th-grade math, where 71.0% of students are proficient, above the district's 51.9% and the state's 59.1%, and up 5.9 points from the prior year. 5th-grade science (60.9%) and 5th- and 6th-grade ELA also beat the district, and across all reported tests in 2025–2026 the school's simple average (55.4%) edges the district (53.4%).

Against the state, however, Linden Elementary School trails: that same simple average is 6.7 points below Ohio's 62.1%, and the school is below state averages in 8 of 9 reported tests. Early grades are the weak spot. 4th-grade ELA fell from 52.9% to 43.1%, landing 18.7 points below the state and 9.2 below the district; 4th-grade math (51.4%) is 15.9 points under the state; and 3rd-grade ELA (47.7%) is 15.7 points under. Context data is thin — free/reduced-lunch status is not reported, per-student spending ($9,390) is from 2018–2019, and the 19.2 student-teacher ratio has no comparison point. Overall, this is a relative bright spot locally with real strengths in upper grades, but still below Ohio norms in most subjects.