Best Public Schools in Zip Code 45229

ZIP code 45229 contains five schools — three elementary and two middle — with no high school, serving 1,452 students across prekindergarten through grade 8. The elementary schools enroll 939 students and the middle schools 513. They are North Avondale Montessori School (PK–7, 568 students), South Avondale Middle School (6–8, 359), Rockdale Academy (PK–6, 225), ReGeneration Middle School (5–8, 154), and ReGeneration Schools Avondale Elementary (K–4, 146). Three of the five belong to Cincinnati Public Schools, a district ranked 609th of 773 statewide — the 21st percentile — with 1 star. The two ReGeneration schools share a campus on Washington Avenue.

North Avondale Montessori School has the ZIP's strongest overall profile: the largest enrollment (568), by far the lowest chronic absenteeism (24.2%, versus the district's 44.6%), and the best ELA results, averaging 52.0% versus 35.8% in math. ReGeneration Schools Avondale Elementary is the clearest turnaround, rising from the 2nd percentile in 2023–24 to the 26th in 2025–26 — the highest here — and posting the area's best math (56.6% average), the only school where math beats ELA. South Avondale Middle School faces the most severe challenges: 78.1% chronic absenteeism, a 14.6% test average, the 7th percentile, and 0 stars.

Every reported 2025–26 test score in this ZIP falls below the state average, and even the top-ranked schools sit in the bottom quarter statewide — a systemic pattern, not a single-school issue. Rockdale Academy has the smallest classes (12.9 students per teacher) but dropped from the 15th to the 4th percentile and earned 0 stars. ReGeneration Middle School generally outperforms South Avondale in comparable middle grades despite a larger class size (22.0) and lower enrollment. Free/reduced-lunch data are not reported for any school, and spending figures are from 2018–19 and missing for ReGeneration Middle. With PK–8 coverage and no high school, these middle-grade outcomes feed directly into the local grade-8 transition.