At $21,216 per pupil, Horizon Science Academy-Cincinnati ranks #91 of 981 Ohio districts by per-pupil spending (Ohio districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Horizon Science Academy-Cincinnati operates 1 public schools serving 176 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Ohio. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 elementary schools, a small enough portfolio that most families will interact with nearly every campus in the district at some point. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in Hamilton County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $21,216 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the top 99 of 981 Ohio districts by per-pupil spending. See how Ohio compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 4.5% local, 45.1% state, and 50.4% federal, an unusually federal-heavy mix, typically a marker of concentrated Title I eligibility or a small district reliant on federal impact-aid programs.
a 209:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 28.2% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 85.6% African American, 5.3% Hispanic or Latino, 0.5% White across the district's schools.
Enrollment across the district's NCES-reporting campuses grew 23.9% between 2022-23 and 2023-24 (176 to 218 students), while the student-teacher ratio held roughly steady, per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Of the district's $3,889,000 in reported FY2023 expenditures, 43% went to instruction, 50.5% to support services, and 4% to capital outlay, support-services-heavy relative to typical districts, reflecting spending on transportation, administration, or student services. Figures come from the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey's function-level breakdown, not the aggregate per-pupil figure above.
Horizon Science Academy-Cincinnati accounts for 100.0% of all Horizon Science Academy-Cincinnati student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Horizon Science Academy-Cincinnati a distant remainder — means Horizon Science Academy-Cincinnati-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade band: elementary. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how the district allocates programs, capital, or staff. Because it contains a majority of the affected population, enrollment-weighted aggregates will sit closer to this entity's reported fields than to those of smaller peers; an unweighted entity count answers a different question.
Horizon Science Academy-Cincinnati student-counselor ratio is 209:1 — low (typically associated with meeting or exceeding the American School Counselor Association (ASCA) recommended 250:1 benchmark, which correlates with stronger college and career counseling capacity)
student-counselor ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE counselors against total enrollment, districts that contract intervention or social-emotional staff outside the counselor classification may be under-counted Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.
Horizon Science Academy-Cincinnati chronic absenteeism rate is 28.2% — near the typical range (US average ~28) — aligned with the national post-pandemic baseline of roughly 28% chronic absenteeism
chronic absenteeism rate is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: a student is chronically absent if they miss ≥10% of enrolled days for any reason, illness, family obligations, or disengagement Variation between sub-units within Horizon Science Academy-Cincinnati is typically wider than the Horizon Science Academy-Cincinnati-aggregate figure suggests.
Comparisons are relative to Horizon Science Academy-Cincinnati's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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