Summary:
ZIP code 45224 in Cincinnati contains three schools serving roughly 2,095 students from preschool through high school — Aiken New Technical High School (grades 9–12), College Hill Academy (PK–5), and Pleasant Hill Middle School (grades 4–9, classified as an alternative school) — all part of Cincinnati Public Schools, a district ranked 609 of 773 in Ohio, at the 21st percentile with 1 star.
Among the three, College Hill Academy stands out in a positive sense. It has the lowest chronic absenteeism at 40.0%, below the district's 44.6%, and the highest average test proficiency in the ZIP, at 40.7% in 2025–2026 and 40.9% in 2024–2025. Its math results sometimes exceed district averages, including 6th-grade math at 56.5% in 2024–2025 — the only reported result in this ZIP above the state. Science is its clear weakness, at 20.5% and 13.6%. It also had the highest reported per-student spending, $11,339 in 2018–2019.
Aiken is the largest school, with 1,226 students, or 58.5% of the ZIP total, but it has severe chronic absenteeism of 73.8%, which is 29.2 points above the district, along with low End-of-Course proficiency: 33.4% versus the district's 51.5% and the state's 63.2%. Its graduation rate of 80.7% is essentially tied with the district's 80.6%. Pleasant Hill posts the lowest test results, averaging 22.4% and 22.9%, even though its absenteeism of 58.9% is lower than Aiken's, suggesting absenteeism alone does not explain the differences. Note also that some tested grades do not match listed grade spans, so comparisons should be read with care.
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