Best Public Schools in Zip Code 45215

Zip code 45215 contains 12 schools — seven elementary, one middle, three high, and one alternative — serving about 4,876 students from kindergarten through high school across five district/operator labels: Wyoming City (5 schools), Reading Community City (2), Princeton City (2), Lockland Local (2), and Cincinnati Classical Academy (1). School sizes vary widely, from Reading Elementary School at 770 students to Woodlawn Elementary School at 178.

Wyoming City is the standout district, ranked 26th of 773 Ohio districts (97th percentile, 5 stars). Hilltop Elementary School is the top-ranked school in the zip code — 9th of 1,560 elementary schools (99th percentile, 5 stars) — with the area's lowest chronic absenteeism at 3.9%. Elm Avenue Elementary School (55th of 1,560) and Vermont Avenue Elementary School (119th of 1,560) also earn 5 stars, as do Wyoming Middle School (27th of 1,046) and Wyoming High School (55th of 795, 99.3% graduation rate). Cincinnati Classical Academy, serving grades K-9, posts strong ELA and science results and low absenteeism (7.4%), though its Algebra I EOC (50.4%) is below the state's 61.6%.

Chronic absenteeism is one of the strongest signals: it ranges from 3.9% at Hilltop to 59.2% at Lockland Junior Senior High School, with Lockland Elementary School at 40.6% and Reading Junior Senior High School at 38.1%. Where poverty data is reported, Wyoming schools are far lower (4.36% at Hilltop, 4.71% at Elm) than Reading schools (55.97% at Reading Elementary, 50.92% at Reading Junior Senior High); several schools — including Cincinnati Classical, Lincoln Heights, Lockland, and Woodlawn — have unknown free/reduced lunch figures. Per-student spending does not track neatly with outcomes: Wyoming Middle achieves top results at $9,534. Lockland Local sits in the bottom 8% of Ohio districts (0 stars), while Princeton City and Reading Community City rank 532nd and 491st of 773.