History & Tradition

The Mariemont City School District is located on the east side of Cincinnati, Ohio, and includes the villages of Fairfax, Mariemont and Terrace Park as well as the unincorporated areas of Plainville and Williams Meadows. The district can trace its founding to April 14, 1879.

 Mariemont City Schools consists of four schools, serving grades K-12 (with independent preschool programs available): Mariemont High School, Mariemont Junior High School, Mariemont Elementary School and Terrace Park Elementary School. Total enrollment is approximately 1,550 students.

The district employs approximately 200 certified and classified staff. General administration consists of the superintendent, assistant superintendent and treasurer.

The district completed a long-term facilities plan in 2012, with extensive renovations at both elementary schools, construction of a new junior high school building in Fairfax, and renovation of part of the high school building. Mariemont Elementary, Terrace Park Elementary and Mariemont Junior High School celebrated the new buildings with dedication ceremonies on Sunday, September 9, 2012.

To follow up the 2012 facilities plan, the district began planning the Mariemont High School Facility Plan in 2016 with administration, staff, students, parents and community members, along with construction and architect experts. The project began in the spring of 2019 and concluded in the summer of 2021. It allowed the district to provide a 21st century education for its high school students with updated science labs, concentrated collaboration spaces, an improved layout for safety and security, large-group gathering areas and enhanced technology platforms, amenities it could not provide in the almost 50-year-old former building.

The Mariemont City School District continues to achieve excellence and is one of only four district in the state of Ohio to have all its schools named a National Blue Ribbon School by the U.S. Department of Education.

Mariemont High School is the only public school in the state of Ohio to be named a Blue Ribbon School four times, in 1984, 1988, 2001 and 2005. Terrace Park Elementary School is a two-time National Blue Ribbon award recipient in 2004 and 2025. Mariemont Elementary School earned its first National Blue Ribbon award in 2018 with the honor of Exemplary High Performing School. Mariemont Junior High School earned a Blue Ribbon Award and Exemplary High Performing School status in 2021.

 

Mariemont City Schools is consistently recognized as one of the highest-performing public school districts in Ohio. On the 2024-2025 Ohio State Report Card, the district earned the highest possible overall rating of 5 stars from the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce. The overall rating reflects performance across the state's five rated components: Achievement, Progress, Gap Closing, Graduation, and Early Literacy.

 

In the fall of 2025, Niche.com once again ranked Mariemont City Schools as the #1 Best School District in Ohio and recognized our educators as the #1 Best Teachers in America for the third consecutive year.

 

Also in 2025, Mariemont High School earned AP School Honor Roll Platinum Distinction, the highest designation awarded by the College Board. Schools earn this recognition annually for expanding access to Advanced Placement coursework while promoting college readiness and success.

 

Mariemont High School offers 24 Advanced Placement (AP) courses, providing students with opportunities to experience college-level coursework and earn college credit before graduation. In 2024, 93% of students who took an AP exam earned college credit by scoring a 3 or higher, with multiple courses achieving a 100% exam pass rate.

 

The Mariemont City School District continues to significantly outperform state and national averages on the ACT. In 2025, Mariemont students earned an average composite ACT score of 25.5, well above both the Ohio and national averages.

 

Based on the 2025 Ohio state assessment results:

 

In addition to an exemplary academic program, Mariemont City Schools provides one-of-a-kind experiential learning opportunities for every student through its award-winning Warriors BEyond program. Through experiences both during and beyond the school day, students discover new interests, build real-world skills, and explore future possibilities through hands-on learning, travel, service, and career-connected experiences.

 

The district also provides extensive support for students and families through its Warriors BEwell initiative, which includes comprehensive mental health services, research-based wellness programming, and highly trained school counselors and mental health professionals.

 

Beyond the classroom, students benefit from approximately 50 visual and performing arts performances each year, while roughly 80% of Mariemont High School students participate in athletics or extracurricular clubs, demonstrating the district's commitment to developing the whole child.

 

Mariemont High School student-athletes and coaches continue to excel in competition, earning Cincinnati Hills League championships, district and state honors, and competing for state titles each year. Since 2017, Mariemont High School teams have captured 13 Ohio High School Athletic Association (OHSAA) state championships.

Mariemont City Schools is in compliance with the ESSA requirement to have a plan for keeping schools safe and drug free that includes appropriate and effective discipline policies, security procedures, prevention activities, a student code of conduct, and a crisis management plan for responding to violent or traumatic incidents on school grounds.