Summary:
ZIP code 45217 covers St. Bernard, Ohio, where families will find two schools: St Bernard-Elmwood Place Elementary School (grades PK–6, 381 students) and St Bernard-Elmwood Place Junior/Senior High School (grades 7–12, 359 students). Both belong to the St Bernard-Elmwood Place City district, which ranks 578 of 773 Ohio districts — the 25th percentile, with 1 star.
At the elementary school, the strongest results are 3rd grade English language arts at 73.7% proficient (state 63.4%) and 6th grade math at 60.9% (state 56.2%). The weak spots sit in 4th grade, where ELA is 39.2% (state 61.8%) and math 49% (state 67.3%), and in 3rd grade math, which fell from 62% to 45.6% in one year. Chronic absenteeism is 23.5%, better than the district's 31.2%. Its average proficiency is about 52.4% against a state average of about 62.1%, and its rank has held steady at 2 stars, now 1026 of 1560 schools (34th percentile).
The junior/senior high school stands out in Algebra I, where 74.6% of students are proficient versus 61.6% statewide, and in its 98.6% graduation rate. Yet its rank slid from the 45th percentile to the 26th (1 star), and chronic absenteeism is 39.2% — far above both the elementary school and the district. English II is 42.4% proficient (state 62.7%), Geometry 30.4% (state 43.3%), 7th grade math 35.8% and 7th grade ELA 49.3%. Its average proficiency is about 52.5% versus a state average of about 60.2%. The gap between the very high graduation rate and these lower scores and attendance concerns is worth asking about. Note also that free/reduced-lunch figures are unavailable for 2024–2025, and spending data dates to 2018–2019.
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