Summary:
Zip code 45237 in Cincinnati, Ohio, is home to two high schools serving grades 9–12: Woodward Career Technical High School, a large school of 835 students in Cincinnati Public Schools, and Banyan High School, a very small school of 75 students that is listed as its own district. Both schools face serious attendance challenges.
Woodward Career Technical High School graduates 82.8% of its students, slightly above its district's 80.6%, but 81.0% of its students are chronically absent, far above the district's 44.6%. In every reported 2025–2026 end-of-course test, Woodward trails both its district and the state; its strongest results are in American Government (47.0%) and American History (45.6%), while Geometry (16.7%) and English II (19.4%) are the weakest. Still, five of six comparable subjects improved from the prior year. Woodward's state rank has slipped from the 15th percentile in 2023–2024 to the 12th and then the 8th in 2025–2026, with 0 stars.
Banyan High School has a lower student-teacher ratio (10.7 versus Woodward's 13) but more severe outcome data: 99.4% chronic absenteeism in 2025–2026 and a 33.3% graduation rate in 2023–2024. Its most recent rank, from 2022–2023, placed it 844th of 867 Ohio high schools, the 3rd percentile, with 0 stars, following earlier showings at the 2nd and 5th percentiles. Note that Banyan's graduation figure is older than Woodward's, and Banyan has no test scores or spending data here, so academic comparison is not possible. Neither school reports free/reduced-lunch data.
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