About Cincinnati Public Schools
Cincinnati Public Schools is a public school system serving Hamilton County, Ohio, based in Cincinnati. It serves 34,531 students across 66 schools spanning PreK–12, and is classified as a city: large district. By enrollment it is the #2 largest of Ohio’s 1004 school systems.
Size and structure
Cincinnati Public Schools enrolls 34,531 students in 66 schools — an average of about 523 students per school. It serves grades PreK–12 and ranks #2 of 1004 statewide by enrollment.
Who the district serves
Student race and ethnicity in Cincinnati Public Schools, from the NCES Common Core of Data (34,531 students reported):
For economically-disadvantaged, English-learner, and special-education shares, plus school-by-school detail, see the federal sources in the full-data section.
Teachers & staff
Cincinnati Public Schools employs about 2,168 full-time-equivalent teachers for a student–teacher ratio of 15.9:1 — below the Ohio average of about 16.8:1, meaning comparatively smaller classes. Total district staff is roughly 5,594.
Counselor and librarian/media counts are not published at the district level in the current NCES release; see the federal full-data links for staffing detail.
How Ohio funds schools
District-level per-pupil spending and the local/state/federal revenue split for Cincinnati Public Schools are published in the federal school-finance files — see the full-data links below for the current figures.
Report card & state results
Ohio rates districts on the Ohio School Report Cards using a 1-to-5-star system across Achievement, Progress, Gap Closing, Graduation, Early Literacy and College/Career/Workforce Readiness. Look up Cincinnati Public Schools on the Ohio School Report Cards.
Accreditation status
Ohio does not use a private accreditor for its public districts; the state recognizes and holds districts accountable directly through the Department of Education and Workforce and the report-card system, while Cognia accreditation remains voluntary for individual schools. See the Ohio DEW.
Cincinnati Public Schools vs. Ohio
See every Ohio district side by side in the Ohio directory.
Look up Cincinnati Public Schools’s full data
These official sources carry the district-level detail — finances, discipline, equity, test scores, boundaries. Direct links for this district (via its NCES ID):
