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How has Sycamore High School changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
1,678
High
DISTRICT 864 · STATE 565
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SYCAMORE COMMUNITY CITY·NCES 390448601741
Sycamore High School
7400 Cornell Rd, Cincinnati, OH 45242 · (513) 686-1770 · Hamilton County
GRADES 09–12HIGH21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL1,678 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
15.3:1
110 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.8:1 · STATE 17.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
20%
342 students
DISTRICT 18% · 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, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 402 | 24% |
| Grade 10 | 442 | 26% |
| Grade 11 | 394 | 23% |
| Grade 12 | 440 | 26% |
Student demographics
59%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 58% · 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
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Sycamore Community City. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
Ohio's State Tests 2024-25 . % Proficient or AboveEnglish Language Arts
85.9%
OH avg 59.8% . -0.4pp since 2021
Math
73.0%
OH avg 56.1% . -2.6pp since 2021
What this means: On the Ohio's State Tests, Ohio's statewide test, about 86 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 73 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 down about 3 points.
Ohio's State Tests results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 85.9% | 73.0% |
| 2023-24 | 87.9% | 77.2% |
| 2022-23 | 87.9% | 76.4% |
| 2021-22 | 86.3% | 75.6% |
% 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
85.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
81.1%
based on OH schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+4.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 86% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 81% 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 Sycamore High School
Sycamore High School's state test result (85.9% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sycamore High School this school | 1,678 | 20.4% | 85.9% |
| Orange High School Lewis | 1,936 | 18.9% | 84.3% |
| Dublin Coffman High School Dublin | 1,824 | 22.3% | 79.8% |
| Olentangy Berlin High School Delaware | 1,823 | 10.8% | 86.6% |
| Olentangy Liberty High School Powell | 1,847 | 8.5% | 89.7% |
| New Albany High School New Albany | 1,601 | 22.5% | 85.2% |
Matched among Ohio high 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 Sycamore High School ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In Ohio | In Hamilton County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 85.9% | #39 of 403 | #4 of 14 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 73.0% | #99 of 776 ▼ 45 | #7 of 36 ▼ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 85.9% | #57 of 774 ▼ 11 | #6 of 36 ▲ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -1.5pp | #156 of 742 | #7 of 34 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,678 | #43 of 888 | #3 of 40 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.3:1 | #286 of 739 | #15 of 38 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 58.9% | #114 of 749 | #15 of 38 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 20.4% | #373 of 435 | #11 of 16 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +0.7% | #186 of 198 | #15 of 16 |
Ranked against other public high 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
1,678
+36 (+2%) vs 2020
0% since 1990-91, when it was 1,670
Student : Teacher
15.3:1
was 13.9:1
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 | 1,678 | 109.9 | 15.3:1 | 20% (342) |
| 2023-24 | 1,677 | 110.4 | 15.2:1 | 20% (329) |
| 2022-23 | 1,639 | 113.2 | 14.5:1 | 15% (252) |
| 2020-21 | 1,642 | 118 | 13.9:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 1,667 | 115 | 14.5:1 | 13% (223) |
| 2015-16 | 1,646 | 115 | 14.3:1 | 13% (220) |
| 2010-11 | 1,783 | 119 | 15.0:1 | 14% (241) |
| 2000-01 | 2,069 | 130 | 15.9:1 | 2% (45) |
| 1990-91 | 1,670 | 100 | 16.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Sycamore High School.
Since 2017-18: students up 1% (1,667 to 1,678); teachers down 4% (115 to 109.9).
About Sycamore High School
Sycamore High School is a high school with a street address in Cincinnati, Ohio. Classes run from 9 through 12, and the school has 1,678 students. The average for high schools in Ohio is about 565 students, so this school is 197% bigger than average.
Sycamore Community City has 7 schools; together they serve 6,051 students.
Roughly 61% of students at Sycamore High School are White. Other reported shares: 16% Asian, 9% Black, 8% Hispanic, and 6% multiracial. That is close to the 63% White share among all Hamilton County residents. Pick two students at random and there is a 59% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
The school employs the equivalent of 109.9 full-time teachers, for a ratio of 15.3:1. That is lower than the 17.7:1 average for high schools in Ohio. The free or reduced-price lunch share, often used to gauge student poverty, is 20%. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Hamilton County is 34%.
Sycamore High School posts an average proficiency rate on state tests of 85.9%, compared with a predicted 81.1%. It is not in the top or bottom 10% of Ohio schools on BeatsExpectations.
Across Hamilton County, the median household income is $72,470, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 42% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 10%. Hamilton County is home to 212 public schools and about 111,403 public school students.
Nearby, Stewart Elementary School is about 1.2 miles away. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. Sycamore High School comes in 5th of 8 nearby schools on average proficiency.
Sycamore High School has an NCES locale of Suburb: Large.
The student count changed little between 2020-21 (1,642) and 2024-25 (1,678). Its ratio of students to teachers was 13.9:1 in 2020-21, and 15.3:1 in 2024-25.
Threads on this page can be about sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
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 Sycamore Community City
- Edwin H Greene Intermediate Middle SchoolMiddle · 996 students
- Sycamore Junior High SchoolMiddle · 921 students
- Symmes Elementary SchoolElementary · 656 students
- Blue Ash ElementaryElementary · 650 students
- Maple Dale Elementary SchoolElementary · 584 students
- Montgomery Elementary SchoolElementary · 566 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
- Dohn CommunityHigh · 1,675 students
- Princeton High SchoolHigh · 1,619 students
- Colerain High SchoolHigh · 1,591 students
Other Sycamore High schools
2 other US public schools in 3 states are named Sycamore High. Sycamore High School is the largest of the 3.
- Sycamore High SchoolSycamore, IL · 1,161 students
- Sycamore High SchoolPleasant View, TN · 635 students
Nearby schools
- Stewart Elementary School1.2 mi · 502
- Maple Dale Elementary School2.0 mi · 584
- Edwin H Greene Intermediate Middle School2.3 mi · 996
- Montgomery Elementary School2.4 mi · 566
- Symmes Elementary School2.6 mi · 656
- Evendale Elementary School2.8 mi · 232
Frequently asked questions
About Sycamore High SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Sycamore High School?
Sycamore High School enrolls approximately 1,678 students in grades 09-12.
What age range does Sycamore High School serve?
Sycamore High School serves students from grade 09 through grade 12.
How many students per teacher at Sycamore High School?
Approximately 15.3:1 students per teacher at Sycamore High School.
How diverse is Sycamore High School?
Sycamore High School reports a student body of 61% White, 8% Hispanic, 9% Black, 16% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Who oversees Sycamore High School?
Sycamore High School is overseen by Sycamore Community City in Hamilton County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.