Cincinnati Public Schools (CPS) is announcing new start times for the 2023-2024 school year for select schools, as presented by Superintendent Wright and agreed upon by the Board of Education during the latest Committee of the Whole Meeting on April 19, 2023. This information was also shared during the Board of Education Business Meeting on April 24, 2023. After experiencing significant driver shortages, CPS must reduce the number of routes to improve efficiency, safety, on-time status and level of service for families. Based on current routes, and predictions for next fall, the District has 36 more routes than drivers available, which is causing route stacking and some students arriving late to school or home.

After careful consideration, the District developed multiple solutions to streamline bus routes while maintaining healthy start times for high schools, and providing transportation for students who live one mile or more from their neighborhood school as required per board policy. The options and scenarios presented to the Board were based on feedback and discussions gathered from numerous roundtable community meetings, survey results, transportation consultants, bus contractors and school leadership. 

After gaining consensus from the Board of Education, the District is moving forward with a model that will have the least degree of impact to the overall number of CPS schools. This change also provides a 70-minute window between school start times, allowing bus drivers to complete a route with enough time to transport another group of students to school. The new routes will allow one bus driver to drive routes for schools with start times at 7:40 a.m. and 8:50 a.m. or 8:00 a.m. and 9:10 a.m. The District is also recommending new school start times for some non-CPS schools that receive transportation from the District, as required by state law.

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Note: To view the CPS Board of Education’s Student Achievement and District Instructional Performance Committee of the Whole Meeting from April 19, 2023, click here: https://www.youtube.com/live/l2FDHl1CTAE?feature=share&t=3263

New Start Times with a 15-minute or more difference for School Year 2023-2024 

Cincinnati Public Schools

• AMIS - 9:15 a.m. to 8:50 a.m.
• Cincinnati Digital Academy: 7:30 a.m. to 8:00 a.m.
• Gamble Elem. - 8:15 a.m. to 8:50 a.m.
• Rising Stars @ Gamble - 8:15 a.m. to 8:50 a.m.
• Hartwell - 7:30 a.m. to 8:00 a.m.
• Hughes - 8:45 a.m. to 8:00 a.m.
• North Avondale - 7:45 a.m. to 8:50 a.m.
• Roselawn - 9:15 a.m. to 8:50 a.m.
• SCPA (Grades 9-12) - 8:30 a.m. to 8:50 a.m.
• Taft Elementary - 7:30 a.m. to 8:50 a.m.

Alternative Schools:

• New Path High - 7:30 a.m. to 8:00 a.m.
• Learning Ctr. - Norwood 8:25 a.m. to 8:50 a.m.
• Stepping Stones - 8:30 a.m. to 8:50 a.m.

Full List of All New Start Times for School Year 2023-2024

* Schools Highlighted in RED below will have a new start time greater than 15 minutes:

School	Current for 2022-2023	New for 2023-2024
Aiken HS	8:00 - 3:00	No Change
AMIS	9:15 - 3:45	8:50 - 3:20
AWL School	7:45 - 2:15	8:00 - 2:30
Bond Hill Academy	7:45 - 2:15	7:40 - 2:10
CANS School	8:00 - 2:30	No Change
Carson School	7:45 - 2:15	7:40 - 2:10
Chase School	7:45 - 2:15	7:40 - 2:10
Cheviot School	7:45 - 2:15	7:40 - 2:10
Cincinnati Digital Academy	7:30 - 2:30	8:00 - 3:00
Clark Montessori HS	8:00 - 3:00	No Change
College Hill	7:45 - 2:15	7:40 - 2:10
Covedale School	7:45 - 2:15	7:40 - 2:10
Dater Montessori School	9:15 - 3:45	9:10 - 3:40
Frederick Douglass School	7:45 - 2:15	7:40 - 2:10
Ethel M Taylor Academy	7:45 - 2:15	7:40 - 2:10
Evanston Academy	7:45 - 2:15	7:40 - 2:10
Fairview Clifton School	9:15 - 3:45	9:10 - 3:40
Gamble Montessori Elementary	8:15 - 2:45	8:50 - 3:20
Gilbert A Dater HS	8:00 - 3:00	No Change
Hartwell School	7:30 - 2:15	8:00 - 2:30
Hays Porter School	7:45 - 2:15	7:40 - 2:10
Hughes STEM HS	8:45 - 3:45	8:00 - 3:00
Hyde Park School	7:45 - 2:15	7:40 - 2:10
James N Gamble Montessori HS	8:45 - 3:45	8:50 - 3:50
John P Parker School	7:45 - 2:15	7:40 - 2:10
Kilgour School	9:15 - 3:45	9:10 - 3:40
LEAP	9:15 - 3:45	9:10 - 3:40
Lighthouse School	8:45 - 3:45	8:50 - 3:50
Midway School	7:45 - 2:15	7:40 - 2:10
Mt. Airy School	7:45 - 2:15	7:40 - 2:10
Mt. Washington School	7:45 - 2:15	7:40 - 2:10
North Avondale Montessori	7:45 - 2:15	8:50 - 3:20
Oyler School	8:00 - 3:00	No Change
Parker Woods Montessori	9:15 - 3:45	9:10 - 3:40
Pleasant Hill Academy	7:45 - 2:15	7:40 - 2:10
Pleasant Ridge Montessori	7:45 - 2:15	7:40 - 2:10
Promise Center	7:45 - 1:15	7:40 - 1:10
Rees E Price Academy	7:45 - 2:15	7:40 - 2:10
Rising Stars Academy	8:00 - 2:30	No Change
Rising Stars Academy @ Carthage	8:00 - 2:30	No Change
Rising Stars Academy @ Ezzard Charles	8:00 - 2:30	No Change
Rising Stars Academy @ Gamble	8:15 - 2:45	8:50 - 3:20
Rising Stars Academy @ Cheviot/Westwood	8:00 - 2:30   8:15 - 2:45	7:40 - 2:10 8:00 - 2:30
Rising Stars Academy @ Vine	7:45 - 2:15 8:15 - 2:45 8:30 - 3:00	7:40 - 2:10 8:00 - 2:30
Riverview East Academy	8:45 - 3:45	8:50 - 3:50
Robert A Taft IT HS	8:45 - 3:45	8:50 - 3:50
Roberts Academy	9:00 - 3:45	8:50 - 3:20
Rockdale Academy	8:00 - 2:30	No Change
Roll Hill School	8:00 - 2:30	No Change
Roselawn Condon School	9:15 - 3:45	8:50 - 3:20
Rothenberg Preparatory Academy	7:45- 2:30	7:40 - 2:10
Sands Montessori School	9:15 - 3:45	9:10 - 3:40
Sayler Park School	7:45 - 2:15	8:00 - 2:30
SCPA	8:30 - 2:59 (7-12) 9:20 - 3:48 (K-6)	8:50 - 3:20 (7-12) 9:30 - 4:00 (K-6)
Shroder HS	8:45 - 3:45	8:50 - 3:40
Silverton Elementary	7:45 - 2:15	7:40 - 2:10
South Avondale School	8:00 - 2:30	8:00 - 2:30
Spencer Center	8:45 - 3:45	8:50 - 3:50
Taft Elementary	7:30 - 2:15	8:50 - 3:20
Virtual High School	8:00 - 11:00 12:00 - 3:00	No Change
Walnut Hills HS	8:00 - 3:00	No Change
Western Hills University HS	8:00 - 3:00	No Change
Westwood School	7:45 - 2:15	7:40 - 2:10
Winton Hills Academy	7:45 - 2:15	7:40 - 2:10
Withrow University HS	8:00 - 3:00	No Change
Woodford Academy	9:15 - 3:45	9:10 - 3:40
Woodward Career Technical HS	8:45 - 3:45	8:50 - 3:50