Spencer Center for Gifted and Exceptional Students

Spencer Center for Gifted and Exceptional Students, a cozy multi-level school in Cincinnati, Ohio, one of the schools within Cincinnati Public Schools, hosts 373 students, covering grades 3 through 12. That puts it 48% below the typical public school in Ohio, which averages around 712 students.

Spencer Center for Gifted and Exceptional Students is one of 65 schools operated by Cincinnati Public Schools, a district that teaches 33,844 students overall.

On demographics, Spencer Center for Gifted and Exceptional Students logs that 55% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school lists 31% Black, 9% multiracial, 3% Asian. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 63%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 25.8:1 average.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Hamilton County put the typical household earns roughly $72,470 per year, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Spencer Center for Gifted and Exceptional Students is one of 212 public schools in Hamilton County (combined enrollment of about 111,403 students).

Nearest neighbor: Riverview East Academy, around 0.0 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Spencer Center for Gifted and Exceptional Students operates from a high-density location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 74%: 214 students in 2018 compared to 373 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 42% to 31% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 32.9:1 in 2018 to 13.0:1 today.

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