Forest Hills Local School District

It never has a ZIP Code to itself

The counts below come from the census blocks assigned to Forest Hills Local, grouped by the ZIP Code area each block falls in. The Census Bureau publishes the blocks; the grouping is computed here, and it is the only place these particular numbers exist.

• Homes inside the boundary18,575
• Residents47,512
• ZIP Code areas it reaches4
• Where it is the only district0
• Where it shares with another district3
• Where it holds under half a percent1
• Land area32 square miles
• Homes per square mile576

The ZIP Code areas it reaches

Every one of the 3 areas where it holds a real share it shares with somebody. Its largest foothold is 45255 at 64% of the homes; the thinnest is 45226, where it holds no homes at all.

• ZIP Code 45255 · Forestville, Ohio64% of the homes
• ZIP Code 45244 · Dry Run, Ohio52% of the homes
• ZIP Code 45230 · Cincinnati, Ohio51% of the homes
• ZIP Code 45226 · Cincinnati, Ohiono homes at all

What one name misses in the areas it leads

Forest Hills Local is the largest district in 3 ZIP Code areas, and not one of them is wholly its own. Answer with its name alone and the answer misses 15,074 of the 33,649 homes those areas hold. That count is computed here from census blocks; the lookups that answer this question with a single name never print it.

ZIP Code 45230 · Cincinnati, Ohio is a two-district area: 6,449 of its 12,690 homes are inside Forest Hills Local, and the other 6,241 homes are with Cincinnati City. Which one an address belongs to is settled by the street, not by the five digits.

Forest Hills Local holds 5,869 of the 11,226 homes in ZIP Code 45244 · Dry Run, Ohio, so its name is right for most of the area and wrong for the rest: 5,326 homes with West Clermont Local and Milford Exempted Village and 31 homes in a district too small to name here.

In ZIP Code 45255 · Forestville, Ohio the split runs 6,257 to 3,476 and the larger part is Forest Hills Local's: the rest is 3,476 homes with West Clermont Local and New Richmond Exempted Village.

Who takes the other homes in its ZIP Codes

Forest Hills Local runs pre-K through grade 12 itself, so an address it holds sees no change of authority between grade school and high school. The districts listed below are the ones that take the other homes in the ZIP Code areas it shares — Cincinnati City, West Clermont Local and Milford Exempted Village. They are neighbors on the same postal ground, not the next stop for its own students.

• Cincinnati City School District9,441 homes in 2 shared ZIP Code areas
• West Clermont Local School District7,598 homes in 2 shared ZIP Code areas
• Milford Exempted Village School District1,148 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
• New Richmond Exempted Village School District56 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area

Who it shares ZIP Codes with

These districts appear alongside Forest Hills Local in the same ZIP Code areas: West Clermont Local, Cincinnati City, Milford Exempted Village and New Richmond Exempted Village. A single-name lookup for one of those areas has to choose between them, and the choice is right for some addresses and wrong for others.

• West Clermont Local School District2 shared ZIP areas
• Cincinnati City School District1 shared ZIP area
• Milford Exempted Village School District1 shared ZIP area
• New Richmond Exempted Village School District1 shared ZIP area

Where this district sits

• School districts in Ohio802 of 1,228 ZIP areas split
• Every district with a page here260 districts listed

What to do next

Ask the district office to confirm your street address. A district settles that question on its own site: look for a school locator, a find my school tool, or an attendance zone map. Where there is none, ask the office itself.

A ZIP Code is a set of mail delivery routes, not a boundary: in 3 of the 4 ZIP Code areas Forest Hills Local reaches, at least one other district holds a real share of the homes as well, and the line between them runs along streets. Only the district can say which side of that line an address is on.

This site links to no district website. None of the federal files it is built from publishes one, and a guessed address is worse than none. It is the district office, not a search engine, that settles an address.

If a house purchase depends on the answer, ask the district itself for written confirmation of that exact address. A listing is not a district record, and neither is this page.

What this cannot tell you

The homes were counted in the 2020 Census and the district lines are the 2026 boundary file. Nothing on this page adjusts one to the other. Where houses have been built or cleared since the count, a share here describes the place as it was counted rather than as it stands today, and in the fastest-growing ZIP Code areas that gap is the largest single source of error on this site.

A share on this page is a share of the homes in the ZIP Code area, not a probability for any particular address. Enrollment is decided by street address, and a district may run magnet, charter or choice programs that ignore the boundary entirely. If a decision depends on the answer, the district office is the only authority; this page shows what the federal boundary files say and when they were published.

A district boundary is not a school attendance zone. This site never says which school an address is assigned to: no current national dataset of attendance zones exists, and the district draws them itself. Nor is anything here endorsed or certified by the Census Bureau; we use their published files, and that is the whole of the relationship.

A ZIP Code is a set of mail delivery routes, not an area. What is mapped here is the Census Bureau's ZIP Code Tabulation Area, the closest published approximation to it. The two are not identical, and a handful of ZIP Codes used only for post office boxes or single buildings have no tabulation area at all.

Where these numbers come from

School district boundaries come from the Census Bureau's Census Geographic Relationship File, current 2026 vintage, which assigns every census block to a unified district or to an elementary and a secondary district. Homes and residents in each block come from the 2020 Census Redistricting Data (PL 94-171), H1_001 and P1_001. The ZIP Code areas come from the same Geographic Relationship File, block to ZIP Code Tabulation Area. District names and grade ranges come from the Census Gazetteer 2025, with 2020 for districts no longer listed.

The place name printed beside a ZIP Code comes from the Census 2020 ZIP Code Tabulation Area relationship files: place, county subdivision and county, taken 2026-09-06. It is a label rather than a measurement: the Census Bureau does not publish which post office a ZIP Code belongs to, so the place named is the one covering the most land inside the area, not the city the Postal Service prints on an envelope.

Everything else on this page — the shares, the counts of districts per ZIP, the comparison between the two grade bands, the rankings — is computed here from those files. The source publishes none of it. Snapshot taken 2026-09-03.