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What's the most underrated thing about Deer Park Jr/Sr High School that outsiders don't know?
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Enrollment
475
High
DISTRICT 522 · STATE 565
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·DEER PARK COMMUNITY CITY·NCES 390438500834
Deer Park Jr/Sr High School
8351 Plainfield Rd, Cincinnati, OH 45236 · (513) 891-0010 · Hamilton County
GRADES 07–12HIGH21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL475 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
11.7:1
41 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.3:1 · STATE 17.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
51%
243 students
DISTRICT 50% · STATE 43%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade
Student demographics
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Feeds from
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
60.6%
OH avg 59.8% . +1.4pp since 2021
Math
52.5%
OH avg 56.1% . +15.8pp since 2021
What this means: On the Ohio's State Tests, Ohio's statewide test, about 61 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 53 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Ohio schools, those numbers are about 60 and 56. Reading and writing scores are up about 1 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 16 points.
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
60.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
69.5%
based on OH schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-9.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 60% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 69% 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 →
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
475
-71 (-13%) vs 2017
Student : Teacher
11.7:1
was 14.9:1
% White
69%
was 72%
% Hispanic
7%
was 6%
% Black
10%
was 11%
% Asian
1%
was 4%
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
About Deer Park Jr/Sr High School
Deer Park Jr/Sr High School, a tight-knit senior high in Cincinnati, Ohio, part of Deer Park Community City, instructs 475 students, covering grades 7 through 12.
Across the 2 schools in Deer Park Community City (1,044 students total), Deer Park Jr/Sr High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
In terms of who attends, Deer Park Jr/Sr High School records that the largest single group is White, at 69% of enrollment; the rest reads as 11% multiracial, 10% Black, 7% Hispanic.
On the resource side, The school reports having 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.7:1, putting Deer Park Jr/Sr High School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 51% of students at Deer Park Jr/Sr High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Hamilton County runs at roughly 34%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Deer Park Jr/Sr High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 69.5%; this one delivers 60.3%.
In the area at large, ACS estimates for Hamilton County put median household earnings sit near $72,470, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Deer Park Jr/Sr High School is one of 212 public schools in Hamilton County (combined enrollment of about 111,403 students).
Nearest neighbor: Amity Elementary School, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Deer Park Jr/Sr High School. On composite proficiency, Deer Park Jr/Sr High School comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 73.1%.
The school occupies an outer-ring site.
Trend over the last 7 years. Deer Park Jr/Sr High School's enrollment has fell 13% since 2018, when it stood at 546 (now 475). Class-load math has narrowed: from 14.9:1 in 2018 to 11.7:1 in 2025.
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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
- Amity Elementary SchoolElementary · 569 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
Nearby schools
- Amity Elementary School0.4 mi · 569
- Silverton Elementary1.1 mi · 303
- Blue Ash Elementary1.4 mi · 650
- Reading Elementary School1.6 mi · 770
- Reading Junior Senior High School1.6 mi · 654
- Cincinnati Classical Academy1.9 mi · 745
Frequently asked questions
About Deer Park Jr/Sr High SchoolHow large is Deer Park Jr/Sr High School?
Deer Park Jr/Sr High School enrolls approximately 475 students in grades 07-12.
Is Deer Park Jr/Sr High School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Deer Park Jr/Sr High School is a high school covering grades 07-12.
How many teachers does Deer Park Jr/Sr High School have?
Deer Park Jr/Sr High School employs 41 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.7:1.
What is the student diversity at Deer Park Jr/Sr High School?
Student demographics at Deer Park Jr/Sr High School are roughly 69% White, 7% Hispanic, 10% Black, 1% Asian, 11% Two or more.
Who oversees Deer Park Jr/Sr High School?
Deer Park Jr/Sr High School is overseen by Deer Park Community City in Hamilton County.
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