Scoring the school districts
Poverty and income levels have a large impact on school test scores in Ohio.

In fact, three measures listed below -- the percentage of a school district's students on Aid for Dependent Children (ADC), the percentage who qualify for free or reduced-priced lunches, and the district's median family income -- can explain more than two-thirds of the test scores posted by 608 school districts.

The chart shows how selected districts ranked when comparing their overall passage rate on math, reading, science, writing and citizenship tests given to fourth-, sixth-, ninth- and 12th-grade students in 1996.

It also shows what each districtıs predicted passage rate -- and predicted rank -- would be after accounting for those poverty and income levels.

In some cases, districts do not participate in the free lunch program, which gave them a zero in that category.

HOW DISTRICTS FARED:
  • Ohio's top 10
  • Hamilton County
  • Butler County
  • Clermont County
  • Warren County
  • Ohio's bottom 10
  • Highest, lowest performers
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  • The data


    • Top 10
    1 Ottawa Hills Lucas 93.9 91.6 1 0.11 0 $48,231 2 Wyoming Hamilton 93.1 84.5 15 2.95 4.6 $42,672 3 Oakwood Montgomery 92.9 88.7 4 0.2 0.4 $42,403 4 Madeira Hamilton 92.4 81.6 41 1.5 4.8 $32,889 5 Indian Hill Hamilton 91.8 87.1 5 1.23 2.7 $44,135 6 Solon Cuyahoga 90.8 84.1 19 0.68 2.2 $34,993 7 Chagrin Falls Cuyahoga 89.9 86.5 8 0.47 0.4 $38,921 8 Mariemont Hamilton 89.8 80 58 3 3 $31,823 9 Upper Arlington Franklin 89.8 86.7 7 0.24 0.9 $38,358 10 Granville Licking 89.2 84.3 16 1.14 0 $36,235

    Hamilton County school districts
    348 Deer Park Community 70.2 73.3 254 5.86 14.5 $24,794 100 Finneytown 80 76.1 150 5.34 12.5 $29,763 21 Forest Hills 87.2 82.8 30 1.65 3.1 $35,336 415 Lockland 67.6 59.1 566 27.01 44.5 $20,293 69 Loveland 82 78 102 6.64 7.16 $34,260 521 Mount Healthy 62.5 62.7 527 20.73 41.9 $23,617 485 North College Hill 64.1 65.6 489 14.55 37.1 $23,591 286 Northwest 72.3 73.4 249 6.62 19.6 $27,666 388 Norwood 68.7 62.2 535 22.11 34.2 $20,988 106 Oak Hills 79.6 79.9 59 2.21 0 $28,878 365 Princeton 69.7 68.7 424 12.97 32.3 $27,778 83 Reading Community 81.3 72.5 282 10.21 0 $23,995 336 Southwest 70.7 72 310 9.41 12.8 $25,641 450 St. Bernard-Elmwood Place 66.2 61.9 541 19.82 43 $21,427 37 Sycamore Community 85 81.2 45 2.82 5.4 $35,170 175 Three Rivers 75.9 71.7 327 10.71 19.1 $28,366 425 Winton Woods 67.2 72.7 281 8.59 18.8 $28,325

    Butler County school districts
    223 Edgewood 74.3 75.3 178 4.67 12.3 $26,890 275 Fairfield 72.5 77.4 114 4.13 9 $29,738 540 Hamilton 60.9 62 540 22.02 39.4 $21,959 60 Lakota 82.6 85.2 13 1.28 3.62 $40,138 404 Madison 68.1 73.4 248 8.58 12.8 $27,916 546 Middletown 60.3 64 512 19.21 34.3 $22,591 564 New Miami 58.5 61.2 549 22.67 41.1 $21,121 215 Ross 74.7 76 154 4.52 12 $28,209 198 Talawanda 75.2 73.7 234 5.8 14.9 $25,775

    Clermont County school districts
    390 Batavia 68.6 67.8 442 14.91 24.6 $25,088 391 Bethel-Tate 68.6 69.7 396 11.05 18.2 $23,650 395 Clermont-Northeastern 68.4 72.5 289 7.77 17.1 $26,075 401 Felicity-Franklin 68.2 62.6 531 21.75 35.1 $21,875 426 Goshen 67.1 72 314 6.18 21.9 $24,446 127 Milford 78.5 76.8 133 4.67 9.5 $29,492 411 New Richmond 67.7 66.7 466 14.34 32 $24,288 347 West Clermont 70.3 73.5 245 7.24 14.1 $26,903 354 Williamsburg 70 70 384 12.09 17.7 $25,251

    Warren County school districts
    405 Carlisle 68 73.3 252 6.47 15.2 $25,929 453 Franklin 65.9 69.4 408 10.54 22.7 $23,969 120 Kings 78.8 81.1 47 2.55 7.3 $34,834 188 Lebanon 75.4 73.9 226 6.15 15.4 $26,802 152 Little Miami 76.9 75.4 174 4.99 11.5 $27,362 31 Mason City 85.9 83.5 23 1.13 2.8 $35,300 58 Springboro Community 82.7 85.9 11 1.07 3.3 $40,759 226 Wayne 74.3 77.2 119 4.05 9.4 $29,328

    Bottom 10
    599 Cincinnati Hamilton 50.9 52.1 603 44.33 67.9 $21,826 600 Bloom-Vernon Scioto 50.4 57.1 585 34 41.3 $19,126 601 Trotwood-Madison Montgomery 50.4 60.9 552 23.4 49.9 $23,819 602 Springfield City Clark 49.5 58.3 574 28.88 45.3 $19,963 603 Youngstown Mahoning 49.1 46.6 607 59.28 71.7 $17,337 604 Mansfield Richland 49 55.1 594 31.56 61.8 $19,614 605 Dayton Montgomery 46.9 49.7 604 47.04 76.9 $20,380 606 Eastern Pike 44.4 59.5 564 26.08 39.8 $19,290 607 East Cleveland Cuyahoga 43.9 49 605 52.8 66.2 $18,136 608 Cleveland Cuyahoga 42.5 43.3 608 66.2 91.4 $19,102