✓ Ohio Scholarships (EdChoice, Jon Peterson, Autism)Grades 7-12188 students11.8 students per teacherRoman CatholicCo-ed75% to 4-year college
Private schools in Portsmouth, OH
3 schools in Portsmouth itself and 2 more within 12 miles. 4 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 Portsmouth (3)
No matching schools.
Notre Dame
2 mi✓ Ohio Scholarships (EdChoice, Jon Peterson, Autism)Grades 7-12190 students13.6 students per teacherRoman CatholicCo-ed95% to 4-year college
✓ Ohio Scholarships (EdChoice, Jon Peterson)Grades K-12175 students13.5 students per teacherNonsectarianCo-ed50% to 4-year college
Nearby, within 12 miles (2)
No matching schools.
✓ Ohio Scholarships (EdChoice)
Grades K-1020 students3.8 students per teacherBaptistCo-ed
Portsmouth private schools at a glance
- Closest to downtown
- Notre Dame Jr/Sr High School, 2.0 mi
- Students
- about 573 in all; the typical school has 188
- Smallest and largest
- Franklin Furnace Christian Academy, 20 students; Notre Dame, 190 students
- Students per teacher
- 13.5 typical, 3.8 to 13.6 across 4 schools
- Association members
- 2, most often the National Catholic Educational Association
- To a 4-year college
- 75% of graduates at the typical high school (3 reporting)
- Public charter schools within 15 mi
- 1, tuition-free and not counted above
Charter schools in this state
- Catholic2
- Christian, not Catholic1
- Nonsectarian1
- Not in federal survey1
- Elementary (K to 5)2
- Middle (6 to 8)4
- High school (9 to 12)4
- K to 12, one school1
In PortsmouthWithin 12 mi
- Portsmouth area80%
- 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.
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