Turpin High School

Turpin High School is a senior high of big scale in Cincinnati, Ohio, run under Forest Hills Local, enrolling 991 students in grades 9 through 12. That puts it 75% larger than the typical public school in Ohio, which averages around 565 students.

Forest Hills Local runs 9 schools in total, collectively educating 6,827 students. Turpin High School is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Turpin High School logs that 86% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school shows 5% multiracial, 4% Hispanic, 3% Asian. That is noticeably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 63%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 64 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.7:1, putting Turpin High School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 12% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Hamilton County runs at roughly 34%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Turpin High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 84.3%, the actual is 83.7%, a residual of -0.7 points.

In the broader community, Hamilton County reports that the typical household earns roughly $72,470 per year, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Turpin High School is one of 212 public schools in Hamilton County (combined enrollment of about 111,403 students).

The closest other public school is Mercer Elementary School, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Turpin High School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 85.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Five-year trend. Turpin High School's enrollment has contracted 11% since 2018, when it stood at 1,112 (now 991). White enrollment moved from 91% to 86% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 16.7:1 in 2018 to 15.6:1 in 2025.

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