Best High Schools in Zip Code 45241

ZIP code 45241 lists three high schools serving grades 5–12: Scarlet Oaks Cdc (grades 11–12), Princeton Innovation Center (grades 7–12), and Instructional Resource Center (grades 5–12). Combined reported enrollment is 1,309 students, but it is highly uneven: Scarlet Oaks Cdc enrolls 1,023 students (about 78.1%), Princeton Innovation Center 260 (about 19.9%), and Instructional Resource Center 26 (about 2.0%). Great Oaks Career Campuses operates two of the three schools, accounting for 1,049 students (80.1%), while Princeton City operates one school with 260 students (19.9%). Because their grade spans differ widely, they are not directly comparable as traditional high schools.

Scarlet Oaks Cdc is the enrollment standout, about 39 times larger than Instructional Resource Center and 3.9 times larger than Princeton Innovation Center. It reports 53.96% free/reduced lunch in 2024–2025 and a student-teacher ratio of 15.7, but no test-score, rank, graduation-rate, or absenteeism data in this list. Princeton Innovation Center has the richest performance data and the most challenging metrics: a district rank of 532nd of 773 (31st percentile, 2 stars), a 2025–2026 school rank of 792nd of 795, a 78.3% graduation rate versus 93.4% for the district, 66.2% chronic absenteeism versus 23.5%, and a student-teacher ratio of 26. Instructional Resource Center is the smallest school, with 26 students and a reported student-teacher ratio of 0.2, suggesting a highly specialized setting; it has no reported performance, lunch, graduation, or absenteeism data.

Princeton Innovation Center’s test scores are uniformly low. In 2025–2026, proficiency ranged from 1.8% in Geometry to 27.3% in American History; in 2024–2025, Geometry and Algebra I were both exactly 0%. Gaps are large: Algebra I was 5.6% at the school versus 71.0% in the district in 2025–2026, and American History was 7.4% versus 78.3% in 2024–2025. Chronic absenteeism is nearly three times the district rate, and the graduation-rate gap is 15.1 points. Spending data exists only for Princeton Innovation Center — $9,399 per student in 2018–2019 — so it is not current. Overall, only Princeton Innovation Center has enough data to evaluate academic outcomes here.