Ayer Elementary School

Located at 8471 Forest Rd, in Cincinnati, Ohio, Ayer Elementary School is a moderately sized elementary campus that caters to 595 students (grades K through 6), run under Forest Hills Local. Enrollment runs roughly 47% above the state mean of about 404.

Across the 9 schools in Forest Hills Local (6,827 students total), Ayer Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Ayer Elementary School records that 83% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 6% multiracial, 5% Black, 3% Hispanic, 3% Asian. By comparison, Hamilton County as a whole is about 63% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.3:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.9:1, putting Ayer Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 16% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is lower than Hamilton County's rate of about 34%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Ayer Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 82.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 86.8%.

Zooming out to the county, Hamilton County reports that the typical household earns roughly $72,470 per year, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Hamilton County runs 212 public schools (combined enrollment of about 111,403 students), of which Ayer Elementary School is one.

Summit Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Ayer Elementary School at 3rd of 8; the average score across the group is 81.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 8%: 644 students in 2018 compared to 595 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 18.7:1 in 2018 to 16.3:1 today.

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