Summary:
ZIP code 45205 contains just one public school: Carson School, an elementary school serving grades PK–6 with 742 students in Cincinnati Public Schools. The area summary shows 1 elementary, 0 middle, 0 high, and 0 alternative schools, so families in this ZIP have a single public option in the provided data, and it ends at 6th grade.
Carson is rated 1 star and ranked 1,116 of 1,560 schools statewide in 2025–26 (28th percentile); its district ranks 609 of 773 (21st percentile, 1 star). The brightest spot is 5th grade: ELA was 70.0% proficient—essentially matching the state's 70.4%—and Math was 60.0%, slightly above the state's 59.1% and 20.4 points above the district's 39.6%. Third grade ELA (60.4%) and 4th grade Math (49.1%) also beat district averages but fell short of the state. The weakest areas were 6th grade Math (21.8%), 6th grade ELA (29.1%), 4th grade ELA (34.0%), and 5th grade Science (33.3%). Compared with the district, Carson was ahead in 4 of 9 grade-subject tests and behind in 5; compared with the state, it was at or above in only 2 of 9.
The improvement trend is notable: the statewide percentile moved from 19 to 18 to 28 over three years, and the unweighted test average climbed 10.4 points to 45.4%, versus +2.0 for the district and +0.9 for the state. Fifth grade ELA jumped 41.8 points (28.2% → 70.0%) and 5th grade Math rose 28.2 points. Even so, Carson remains 1-star. Chronic absenteeism is 44.0%, close to the district's 44.6%; the student–teacher ratio is 19.8, and the only spending figure available is $10,218 per student from 2018–19. Free/reduced-lunch data is not reported.
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