St. Rose Catholic School
under 1 mi✓ Ohio Scholarships (EdChoice)Grades PreK-8157 students14.3 students per teacherRoman CatholicCo-ed
Private schools in Lima, OH
10 schools in Lima itself. 6 of them are on the state’s EdChoice / Cleveland Scholarship list. EdChoice pays $6,166 for grades K-8, $8,408 for grades 9-12.
Order: schools on the official EdChoice / Cleveland Scholarship list first, then nearest. No school pays for its place. Map
Private schools in Lima (10)
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✓ Ohio Scholarships (EdChoice, Jon Peterson)Grades PreK-8193 students11.5 students per teacherRoman CatholicCo-ed
✓ Ohio Scholarships (EdChoice, Jon Peterson)Grades PreK-8370 students15.4 students per teacherRoman CatholicCo-ed
✓ Ohio Scholarships (EdChoice, Jon Peterson, Autism)Grades 9-12211 students12.1 students per teacherRoman CatholicCo-ed70% to 4-year college
✓ Ohio Scholarships (EdChoice, Jon Peterson)Grades PreK-12300 students9.5 students per teacherChristian (nondenominational)Co-ed0% to 4-year college
✓ Ohio Scholarships (EdChoice)Grades PreK-1063 students7.9 students per teacherChristian (nondenominational)Co-ed
High Road School of Lima
under 1 miGrades K-1270 students10 students per teacherNonsectarianSpecial educationCo-ed0% to 4-year college
Liberty Christian School
under 1 miGrades PreK-815 students5.2 students per teacherChristian (nondenominational)Co-ed
Grades K-1115 students3.1 students per teacherChristian (nondenominational)Co-ed
Grades PreK-1241 students10.2 students per teacherPentecostalCo-ed0% to 4-year college
Lima private schools at a glance
- Closest to downtown
- High Road School of Lima, under 1 mi
- Students
- about 1,435 in all; the typical school has 157
- Smallest and largest
- Liberty Christian School, 15 students; St. Charles Catholic School, 370 students
- Students per teacher
- 10.2 typical, 3.1 to 15.4 across 10 schools
- Programs
- 1 special education
- Co-ed or single-sex
- all co-ed
- Association members
- 6, most often the National Catholic Educational Association
- To a 4-year college
- 0% of graduates at the typical high school (4 reporting)
- Public charter schools within 15 mi
- 3, tuition-free and not counted above
Charter schools in Lima
- Catholic4
- Christian, not Catholic5
- Nonsectarian1
- Pre-K (and up)7
- Elementary (K to 5)9
- Middle (6 to 8)9
- High school (9 to 12)6
- K to 12, one school3
- Under 503
- 50 to 1492
- 150 to 2993
- 300 to 5992
- Lima60%
- All of Ohio63%
Where these facts come from
- Grades, size, affiliation, co-ed, membership, college-going: NCES Private School Universe Survey 2023-24, downloaded September 20, 2026.
- Program list: Ohio EdChoice and Cleveland Scholarship schools, list read October 26, 2026.
- Award and rules: Ohio EdChoice Scholarship, official page, read October 2, 2026.
- Public charter schools: NCES Common Core of Data, public school directory 2025-26 (preliminary), loaded October 8, 2026.
What Ohio pays
- Program
- Ohio EdChoice Scholarship, scholarship
- Award
- $6,166 for grades K-8, $8,408 for grades 9-12
- Also
- Families at or below 450% of the poverty level ($148,500 for a family of four) get the full amount. Above that it is scaled down.
Keep looking
- Christian schools in and around Lima (5)
- Catholic schools in and around Lima (4)
- Private high schools in and around Lima (6)
- Private elementary schools in and around Lima (9)
- Private schools with pre-K in and around Lima (7)
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