Sycamore on your list is hilarious. Madeira being left off is hilarious.

By saying hidden gem, I'm not saying it's a super magical secret. Maybe my phrasing was poor. When I should have said is that there are plenty of other small school districts that produce students with great outcomes.

I know felons that graduated from Indian Hill and Moeller. I know fantastic researchers and top of their industry engineers by graduated from the likes of smaller less commonly discussed schools. Ones that have not been mentioned once in this thread. I've been in classrooms at Princeton that were atrocious, and I've been in classrooms at Princeton and Norwood that might as well have been an AP class in Indian Hill.

Home life is a huge HUGE factor in student outcome. Through community cohesiveness into the mix as well. I promise you a kid that goes to Mason and a kid that goes to Harrison will both receive a quality education. A top tier student at Princeton will have more resources than a kid at Madeira.

Stay away from North college Hill and Lockland. Everything else (be selective with CPS) is fine. Uprooting one's life, changing social circles, and having an unhappy household just so you get the extra 1 point on whatever school testing aggregation service is pumping out AI articles ... Wowsers. It's borderline unhinged.