Summary:
ZIP code 45229 in Cincinnati contains two middle schools — South Avondale Middle School, which serves grades 6–8 with 359 students in Cincinnati Public Schools, and ReGeneration Middle School, which serves grades 5–8 with 154 students and is listed as its own district under ReGeneration Middle School — for a combined enrollment of 513 students, with South Avondale holding about 70% of that total.
Between the two, ReGeneration is the stronger performer on most comparable measures. Its average proficiency across the seven common 2025–2026 tests is about 21.7%, compared with roughly 14.6% at South Avondale, and it earned 1 star with a rank of 904 of 1,046 (14th percentile), versus South's 0 stars and 975 of 1,046 (7th percentile). ReGeneration also has lower chronic absenteeism — 61.1% versus 78.1% — even though its student/teacher ratio is higher at 22.0 versus 15.6. Still, both figures for absenteeism are very high; South's rate is about 33.5 percentage points above its district average of 44.6%.
Both schools sit far below district and state proficiency levels. On the common 2025–2026 tests, the state averages about 56.4%, leaving South about 41.8 points behind and ReGeneration about 34.7 points behind, and South trails its own district average in every common subject. Math is the weakest area at both schools, with South's grades 6–8 math proficiency around 9–10% and ReGeneration's ranging from 11.1% to 26.1%. South's one bright spot is 2024–2025 4th-grade math at 59.5%, above its district's 47.8% but below the state's 69.1% — an unusual result for a school listed as grades 6–8. ReGeneration's year-to-year results swing sharply, likely because of small grade-level cohorts. Free/reduced-lunch data is blank for both schools, and spending data exists only for South Avondale, at $11,082 per student for 2018–2019.
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