Enrollment
770
Elementary
DISTRICT 712 · STATE 404
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·READING COMMUNITY CITY·NCES 390446901568
Reading Elementary School
810 E Columbia Ave, Reading, OH 45215 · (513) 554-1001 · Hamilton County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL770 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
15.7:1
49 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.3:1 · STATE 17.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
56%
431 students
DISTRICT 53% · STATE 43%
Community
0
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 | 42 | 5% |
| Kindergarten | 99 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 101 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 91 | 12% |
| Grade 3 | 105 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 106 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 117 | 15% |
| Grade 6 | 109 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (99) is 9% smaller than its 6th grade class (109).
Student demographics
54%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 50% · 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
Reading Elementary School→Reading Junior Senior High School
Based on grade levels within Reading Community City. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
Ohio's State Tests 2024-25 . % Proficient or AboveEnglish Language Arts
52.8%
OH avg 59.8% . +3.9pp since 2022
Math
49.8%
OH avg 56.1% . -1.3pp since 2022
What this means: On the Ohio's State Tests, Ohio's statewide test, about 53 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 50 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 4 points since 2022, while math scores are down about 1 points.
Ohio's State Tests results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 52.8% | 49.8% |
| 2023-24 | 54.0% | 52.2% |
| 2022-23 | 48.9% | 51.1% |
% 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of OH schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
50.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
67.7%
based on OH schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-17.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 50% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 68% typical for Ohio schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 Reading Elementary School
Reading Elementary School's state test result (50.4% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reading Elementary School this school | 770 | 56.0% | 50.4% |
| Royalview Elementary School Willowick | 689 | 52.4% | 59.4% |
| C O Harrison Elementary School Cincinnati | 909 | 51.3% | 81.9% |
| Elida Elementary Elida | 1,003 | 62.8% | 65.6% |
| Wickliffe Lower School Wickliffe | 642 | 49.8% | 53.7% |
| 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 Reading Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Ohio | In Hamilton County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 50.4% | #653 of 673 | #38 of 38 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 49.8% | #1,086 of 1,569 ▼ 71 | #58 of 104 ▼ 11 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 52.8% | #1,059 of 1,569 ▲ 24 | #55 of 104 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 770 | #101 of 1,808 | #7 of 120 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.7:1 | #376 of 1,582 | #33 of 103 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 54.3% | #481 of 1,590 | #40 of 104 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 56.0% | #170 of 767 | #8 of 40 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +134.0% | #13 of 561 | #1 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
770
+376 (+95%) vs 2020
+82% since 1990-91, when it was 422
Student : Teacher
15.7:1
was 21.9:1
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 | 770 | 49.2 | 15.7:1 | 56% (431) |
| 2023-24 | 776 | 48.1 | 16.1:1 | N/A |
| 2022-23 | 351 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2020-21 | 394 | 18 | 21.9:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 329 | 18.8 | 17.5:1 | N/A |
| 2015-16 | 354 | 20 | 17.7:1 | 96% (339) |
| 2010-11 | 340 | 19 | 17.9:1 | 99% (337) |
| 2000-01 | 353 | 23 | 15.3:1 | 33% (115) |
| 1990-91 | 422 | 23 | 18.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Reading Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 134% (329 to 770); teachers up 162% (18.8 to 49.2).
About Reading Elementary School
Reading Elementary School is a large elementary school with its address in Reading, Ohio. The school offers pre-K through 6 and enrolls 770 students. That puts enrollment 91% larger than the 404-student average for elementary schools in Ohio.
Reading Community City (2 schools, 1,424 students) runs Reading Elementary School.
Of every 100 students at Reading Elementary School, about 64 are White. It is also 15% Black, 12% multiracial, and 8% Hispanic. Among Hamilton County residents, the White share is about 63%. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Reading Elementary School scores 54%.
Reading Elementary School has 49.2 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff and a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.7:1. The gap from the 17.9:1 average for elementary schools in Ohio is 2.2 students per teacher. At Reading Elementary School, 56% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. The gap from the 34% average for public schools in Hamilton County is 22 points.
Reading Elementary School posts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 50.4%. Schools with its free or reduced-price lunch share in Ohio are predicted to post 67.7%, so the school is 17.3 points behind and in the state's bottom 10%.
The school is in Hamilton County, where median household income comes to about $72,470, roughly 42% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 10%. Hamilton County counts 212 public schools with about 111,403 students.
Reading Junior Senior High School, less than a tenth of a mile away, is the closest public school. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. On state test proficiency, Reading Elementary School ranks 5th in a group of 5 nearby schools.
Under the NCES locale system, Reading Elementary School is Suburb: Large.
In 2020-21 the school reported 394 students, and in 2024-25 it reported 770. Grade changes, mergers, or boundary shifts can explain gaps this large. The ratio of students to teachers went from 21.9:1 to 15.7:1 over the same 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 Reading Community City
- Reading Junior Senior High SchoolHigh · 654 students
- Reading Intermediate Elementary SchoolCombined
Other schools in Reading
- Reading Junior Senior High SchoolHigh · 654 students
- Reading Intermediate Elementary SchoolCombined
Other Reading Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Reading Elementary. Reading Elementary School is the largest of the 2.
- Reading Elementary SchoolReading, VT · 34 students
Nearby schools
- Reading Junior Senior High School0.0 mi · 654
- Cincinnati Classical Academy0.9 mi · 745
- Lockland Elementary School1.4 mi · 206
- Lockland Junior Senior High School1.4 mi · 212
- Deer Park Jr/Sr High School1.6 mi · 475
- Blue Ash Elementary1.7 mi · 650
Frequently asked questions
About Reading Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Reading Elementary School?
Reading Elementary School enrolls approximately 770 students in grades PK-06.
Is Reading Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Reading Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-06.
How many students per teacher at Reading Elementary School?
Approximately 15.7:1 students per teacher at Reading Elementary School.
How diverse is Reading Elementary School?
Reading Elementary School reports a student body of 64% White, 8% Hispanic, 15% Black, 1% Asian, 12% Two or more.
Who oversees Reading Elementary School?
Reading Elementary School is overseen by Reading Community City in Hamilton County.
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