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What's the biggest difference between Summit Elementary School and what you expected?
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Enrollment
512
Elementary
DISTRICT 597 · STATE 404
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FOREST HILLS LOCAL·NCES 390473402849
Summit Elementary School
8400 Northport Dr, Cincinnati, OH 45255 · (513) 474-2270 · Hamilton County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL512 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 90% of Ohio public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- CThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Ohio public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
16.7:1
31 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.1:1 · STATE 17.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
24%
122 students
DISTRICT 16% · STATE 43%
Community
1
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 72 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 69 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 78 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 67 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 80 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 85 | 17% |
| Grade 6 | 61 | 12% |
This year's kindergarten class (72) is 18% larger than its 6th grade class (61).
Student demographics
33%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 29% · 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
Summit Elementary School→Nagel Middle School
Based on grade levels within Forest Hills Local. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
Ohio's State Tests 2024-25 . % Proficient or AboveEnglish Language Arts
81.9%
OH avg 59.8% . -0.1pp since 2021
Math
88.7%
OH avg 56.1% . +1.5pp since 2021
What this means: On the Ohio's State Tests, Ohio's statewide test, about 82 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 89 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Ohio schools, those numbers are about 60 and 56. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2021, while math scores are up about 1 points.
Ohio's State Tests results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 81.9% | 88.7% |
| 2023-24 | 88.0% | 90.4% |
| 2022-23 | 88.2% | 88.5% |
| 2021-22 | 82.0% | 87.3% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
87.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
79.8%
based on OH schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+7.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 87% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 80% 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 →
Schools most like Summit Elementary School
Summit Elementary School's state test result (87.4% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Summit Elementary School this school | 512 | 23.8% | 87.4% |
| C H Campbell Elementary School Canfield | 470 | 23.6% | 90.2% |
| Valley Elementary School Beavercreek | 487 | 22.2% | 70.0% |
| Fairbrook Elementary School Beavercreek | 547 | 20.8% | 82.4% |
| Stephen Bell Elementary School Bellbrook | 535 | 26.9% | N/A |
| Ella Canavan Elementary School Medina | 475 | 25.5% | 82.3% |
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 Summit Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Ohio | In Hamilton County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 87.4% | #88 of 673 | #15 of 38 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 88.7% | #121 of 1,569 ▼ 53 | #14 of 104 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 81.9% | #220 of 1,569 ▼ 107 | #21 of 104 ▼ 7 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +0.7pp | #987 of 1,514 | #82 of 99 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 512 | #448 of 1,808 | #51 of 120 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.7:1 | #594 of 1,582 | #44 of 103 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 32.5% | #868 of 1,590 | #68 of 104 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 23.8% | #596 of 767 | #21 of 40 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -17.9% | #319 of 992 | #34 of 65 |
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
512
-66 (-11%) vs 2020
-29% since 1990-91, when it was 723
Student : Teacher
16.7:1
was 18.6:1
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 | 512 | 30.7 | 16.7:1 | 24% (122) |
| 2023-24 | 515 | 29.2 | 17.7:1 | 24% (123) |
| 2022-23 | 552 | 27.3 | 20.2:1 | 16% (86) |
| 2020-21 | 578 | 31 | 18.6:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 624 | 29.3 | 21.3:1 | 10% (62) |
| 2015-16 | 585 | 31 | 18.9:1 | 11% (67) |
| 2010-11 | 624 | 30 | 20.8:1 | 9% (57) |
| 2000-01 | 601 | 34 | 17.7:1 | 2% (11) |
| 1990-91 | 723 | 27 | 26.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Summit Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 18% (624 to 512); teachers up 5% (29.3 to 30.7).
About Summit Elementary School
Summit Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school in Cincinnati, Ohio, one of the schools in Forest Hills Local. The school covers kindergarten through 6 and reported 512 students in 2024-25. The school is 27% bigger than the average for elementary schools in Ohio.
Summit Elementary School is one school in a 9-school district, Forest Hills Local, which enrolls 6,827 students.
Roughly 82% of students at Summit Elementary School are White. Smaller groups are 6% multiracial, 4% Hispanic, 4% Asian, and 3% Black. County-wide, 63% of Hamilton County residents are White. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 33%.
On staff are 30.7 full-time-equivalent teachers; the student-to-teacher ratio is 16.7:1. Statewide, elementary schools in Ohio average 17.9:1. Summit Elementary School has a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 24%. Across public schools in Hamilton County, the average is 34%.
Summit Elementary School earns an A on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 90% of Ohio public elementary schools.
Based on student poverty, the model expects 79.8% at Summit Elementary School; the school's average proficiency rate across its state test results is 87.4%.
The school is in Hamilton County, where the median household earns about $72,470 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 42% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 10%. Across Hamilton County, 212 public schools serve about 111,403 students.
Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, Nagel Middle School, is about 0.4 miles. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 82.3%; Summit Elementary School's is 87.4%, ranking 3rd of 8.
Locale: Suburb: Large. In NCES terms, the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
An 11% decline took enrollment from 578 in 2020-21 to 512 in 2024-25. The student-to-teacher ratio dropped from 18.6:1 in 2020-21 to 16.7:1 in 2024-25.
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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 Forest Hills Local
- Anderson High SchoolHigh · 1,166 students
- Nagel Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,087 students
- Turpin High SchoolHigh · 991 students
- Sherwood Elementary SchoolElementary · 689 students
- Wilson Elementary SchoolElementary · 635 students
- Mercer Elementary SchoolElementary · 611 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
Other Summit Elementary schools
11 other US public schools in 11 states are named Summit Elementary. Summit Elementary School is the 2nd largest of the 12.
- Summit Elementary SchoolBloomington, IN · 617 students
- Summit ElementaryOconomowoc, WI · 504 students
- SUMMIT ELEMENTARYJEROME, ID · 460 students
- Summit Elementary SchoolCasper, WY · 437 students
- Summit Elementary SchoolAshland, KY · 425 students
Nearby schools
- Nagel Middle School0.4 mi · 1,087
- Ayer Elementary School1.3 mi · 595
- Anderson High School1.6 mi · 1,166
- Summerside Elementary1.7 mi · 612
- Wilson Elementary School1.9 mi · 635
- Sherwood Elementary School2.0 mi · 689
Frequently asked questions
About Summit Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Summit Elementary School?
Summit Elementary School enrolls approximately 512 students in grades KG-06.
What grades does Summit Elementary School serve?
Summit Elementary School serves grades KG-06.
How many students per teacher at Summit Elementary School?
Approximately 16.7:1 students per teacher at Summit Elementary School.
What is the student diversity at Summit Elementary School?
Student demographics at Summit Elementary School are roughly 82% White, 4% Hispanic, 3% Black, 4% Asian, 6% Two or more.
What district is Summit Elementary School in?
Summit Elementary School is part of Forest Hills Local.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.