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Enrollment
569
Elementary
DISTRICT 522 · STATE 404
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·DEER PARK COMMUNITY CITY·NCES 390438500833
Amity Elementary School
4320 E Galbraith Rd, Cincinnati, OH 45236 · (513) 891-5995 · Hamilton County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL569 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
14.8:1
38 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.3:1 · STATE 17.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
48%
274 students
DISTRICT 50% · STATE 43%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 14 | 2% |
| Kindergarten | 59 | 10% |
| Grade 1 | 87 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 65 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 78 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 75 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 76 | 13% |
| Grade 6 | 115 | 20% |
This year's kindergarten class (59) is 49% smaller than its 6th grade class (115).
Student demographics
48%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 49% · STATE 54% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Amity Elementary School→Deer Park Jr/Sr High School
Based on grade levels within Deer Park Community City. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
Ohio's State Tests 2024-25 . % Proficient or AboveEnglish Language Arts
63.6%
OH avg 59.8% . -0.4pp since 2021
Math
66.9%
OH avg 56.1% . +4.4pp since 2021
What this means: On the Ohio's State Tests, Ohio's statewide test, about 64 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 67 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Ohio schools, those numbers are about 60 and 56. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2021, while math scores are up about 4 points.
Ohio's State Tests results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 63.6% | 66.9% |
| 2023-24 | 70.9% | 70.2% |
| 2022-23 | 64.4% | 69.5% |
| 2021-22 | 64.0% | 62.5% |
% Proficient or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Ohio's State Tests. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
67.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
70.6%
based on OH schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-3.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 68% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 71% typical for Ohio schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Ohio's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Amity Elementary School
Amity Elementary School's state test result (67.5% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amity Elementary School this school | 569 | 48.2% | 67.5% |
| Oakview Elementary School Kettering | 477 | 45.9% | 82.3% |
| Southdale Elementary School Kettering | 530 | 44.3% | 80.0% |
| Smith Intermediate School Dayton | 642 | 45.2% | 71.0% |
| Stranahan Elementary School Toledo | 502 | 45.6% | 74.1% |
| Union Elementary School Union | 539 | 52.3% | 64.9% |
Matched among Ohio elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Amity Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Ohio | In Hamilton County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 67.5% | #495 of 673 | #30 of 38 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 66.9% | #737 of 1,569 ▼ 123 | #35 of 104 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 63.6% | #800 of 1,569 ▼ 151 | #40 of 104 ▼ 3 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +2.0pp | #843 of 1,514 | #72 of 99 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 569 | #316 of 1,808 | #39 of 120 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.8:1 | #255 of 1,582 | #25 of 103 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 48.0% | #578 of 1,590 | #49 of 104 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 48.2% | #291 of 767 | #13 of 40 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +37.8% | #98 of 561 | #8 of 36 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
569
-70 (-11%) vs 2020
+76% since 1990-91, when it was 323
Student : Teacher
14.8:1
was 9.8:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 569 | 38.3 | 14.8:1 | 48% (274) |
| 2023-24 | 589 | 36.3 | 16.2:1 | 49% (286) |
| 2022-23 | 584 | 35.9 | 16.3:1 | 39% (227) |
| 2020-21 | 639 | 65 | 9.8:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 413 | 22.1 | 18.7:1 | 46% (189) |
| 2015-16 | 417 | 20 | 20.9:1 | 48% (201) |
| 2010-11 | 291 | 14 | 20.8:1 | 44% (128) |
| 2000-01 | 335 | 21 | 15.9:1 | 16% (55) |
| 1990-91 | 323 | 15 | 21.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Amity Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 38% (413 to 569); teachers up 73% (22.1 to 38.3).
About Amity Elementary School
A mid-sized elementary school in Cincinnati, Ohio, Amity Elementary School is part of Deer Park Community City. Enrollment stands at 569 students, covering pre-K through 6. The school is 41% bigger than the average for elementary schools in Ohio.
Deer Park Community City is the local district for Amity Elementary School. It runs 2 schools with 1,044 students.
The student body at Amity Elementary School is 70% White. It is also 12% multiracial, 9% Black, and 8% Hispanic. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 48, compared with 70 nationally.
There are about 14.8 students for every full-time-equivalent teacher at Amity Elementary School, which has 38.3. Elementary schools in Ohio average 17.9:1, 3.0 more students per teacher than here. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at Amity Elementary School is about 48%. The rate at public schools in Hamilton County averages 34%, lower than here.
The model predicts 70.6% for a school in Ohio with Amity Elementary School's free or reduced-price lunch share. Amity Elementary School posts 67.5%.
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Hamilton County show that median household income comes to about $72,470, roughly 42% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Hamilton County counts 212 public schools with about 111,403 students.
Among nearby public schools, Deer Park Jr/Sr High School is closest at about 0.4 miles. Amity Elementary School is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. The nearest schools with test data average 71.9%, higher than Amity Elementary School's 67.5%.
In the federal locale system, Amity Elementary School is coded Suburb: Large, for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, Amity Elementary School had a net loss of 70 students, or 11%. The number of students per teacher increased from 9.8 to 14.8 over 4 years.
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Hamilton County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
830,774
Census ACS
Median income
$72,470
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
42%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
212
111,403 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Deer Park Community City
- Deer Park Jr/Sr High SchoolHigh · 475 students
Other schools in Cincinnati
- Walnut Hills High SchoolHigh · 2,453 students
- Oak Hills High SchoolHigh · 2,255 students
- West Clermont High SchoolHigh · 2,048 students
- Sycamore High SchoolHigh · 1,678 students
- Dohn CommunityHigh · 1,675 students
- Princeton High SchoolHigh · 1,619 students
Other Amity Elementary schools
2 other US public schools in 3 states are named Amity Elementary. Amity Elementary School is the largest of the 3.
- AMITY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLBOISE, ID · 371 students
- Amity Elementary SchoolAmity, OR · 320 students
Nearby schools
- Deer Park Jr/Sr High School0.4 mi · 475
- Silverton Elementary0.9 mi · 303
- Madeira High School1.6 mi · 438
- Blue Ash Elementary1.6 mi · 650
- Madeira Preschool1.8 mi · 86
- Sycamore Junior High School1.9 mi · 921
Frequently asked questions
About Amity Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Amity Elementary School?
Amity Elementary School enrolls approximately 569 students in grades PK-06.
What grades does Amity Elementary School serve?
Amity Elementary School serves grades PK-06.
How many students per teacher at Amity Elementary School?
Approximately 14.8:1 students per teacher at Amity Elementary School.
How diverse is Amity Elementary School?
Amity Elementary School reports a student body of 70% White, 8% Hispanic, 9% Black, 1% Asian, 12% Two or more.
Who oversees Amity Elementary School?
Amity Elementary School is overseen by Deer Park Community City in Hamilton County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.