About Walnut Hills High School

A COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL - Grades 7 through 12

 Established in 1895

Celebrating Over 100 Years - A “Tradition of Excellence”

Walnut Hills High School is nationally recognized as one of America’s top public schools.  Upon graduation, students are accepted to the finest universities and colleges in America.

 Walnut Hills offers:

• An advanced, accelerated curriculum for six grade levels.

•  A rigorous classical program requiring three years of Latin for incoming 7th and 8th graders.

• An Honors Program and College Board Advanced Placement Program with 28 courses.

• An outstanding fine arts program with AP art studio and music theory classes.

• A culturally and ethnically diverse student body with students from every urban neighborhood in Cincinnati, Amberley Village, Cheviot, Golf Manor, Green Township, and Silverton. (44% minority 36% are African-American; 1,853 student population comprised of 55% females and 45% males.)

• A superbly trained faculty with 100% holding master’s degrees, equivalent or above. There are nine National Board certified teachers and a former National Teacher of the Year. 

• An enthusiastic parent organization and alumni organization that volunteer time and contribute
  funds for program enhancement.

• A state-of-the-art thirteen million dollar Arts and Science Center provided by the Alumni Foundation.

Walnut Hills has:

• Over 95% attending four-year colleges or universities.  See where they're attending.

• In 2006-2007, 19 National Merit Semi-Finalists, 21 Commended Students, 3 National Achievement and 3 Achievement Commended Scholars.

• Thirty-eight Cum Laude Initiates in 2006.

• Administered over 1,300 College Board AP exams, taken by 555 students in 2006, 82% of the scores were three or higher.

• One hundred percent of the students pass all parts of the Ohio Graduation Test and the majority receive Honors Diplomas from the State.

• Science and foreign language competitions, National Mathematics Examinations, and Harvard Model United Nations.

• A minimum of six dramatic and musical productions, six instrumental and two vocal concerts and an award-winning marching band.

• Over 50 sports teams and 50 extracurricular activities from Art Club to Youth in Government.

• Students scoring above the national mean on the SAT and ACT  (WHHS SAT mean 1752; National SAT mean 1518. WHHS ACT mean 25.9; National mean 21.1).

Admission open to all students who pass the Terra Nova standardized test at 70% or better offered through Cincinnati Public Schools, 363-0186.