Houston Educational Service and Early Childhood Center

Houston Educational Service and Early Childhood Center operates as a small elementary-level community in Cincinnati, Ohio, part of Northwest Local. Current enrollment sits at 227 students spanning grade pre-K. By comparison, Ohio's public schools average about 404 students each, so Houston Educational Service and Early Childhood Center sits 44% leaner than that benchmark.

Houston Educational Service and Early Childhood Center is one of 19 schools operated by Northwest Local, a district that works with 11,022 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Houston Educational Service and Early Childhood Center shows that 39% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 34% White, 11% multiracial, 11% Asian, 4% Hispanic. By comparison, Hamilton County as a whole is about 24% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 9 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 25.2:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Hamilton County indicate the typical household earns roughly $72,470 per year, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Hamilton County's 212 public schools (combined enrollment of about 111,403 students), Houston Educational Service and Early Childhood Center is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Colerain High School, roughly 0.9 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Houston Educational Service and Early Childhood Center has decreased 10%, going from 251 students in 2018 to 227 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 49% to 34%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 27.9:1 in 2018 to 25.2:1 today.

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