Hays-Porter High-Tech Elementary School is a public high school located in the West End area of downtown Cincinnati, Ohio. It is part of the Cincinnati Public Schools district.

As part of Vision 2020, a three-year plan to improve neighborhood schools, CPS is adding exciting new programs at 7 schools during the 2016-17 school year.

And Hays-Porter Elementary School has been selected to be one of them, becoming Ohio's first "High-Tech Elementary School", and was featured in CPS Vision 2020 Video! 

The benefits of this new program include:

• Innovation Lab
• Access to technology elective courses, such as coding, robotics, makerspace and gaming
• Blended Learning Modules giving students opportunities to control pace, path, time or place of learning
• Early exposure to technology to help ensure college and career success
• Build critical - thinking skills through Project-Based Learning

Hays-Porter High-Tech Elementary School and the Robert A. Taft Information Technology High School, working together, are making the vision of West End as the "IT Education Hub" a reality! 

Taft Information Technology High School is a public high school located in the West End area of downtown Cincinnati, Ohio. It is part of the Cincinnati Public Schools district. Students are given the opportunity to stay ahead of the game by taking advantage of the nine computer labs (with state-of-the-art technology), Apple’s Final Cut Pro 6 software, 25-Book Campaign, tutoring programs with Cincinnati Bell, Advanced Placement (AP) Calculus, Advanced Academic (AA) classes, Breakthrough Collaborative (formerly Summerbridge program), prosperous extracurricular programs, comprehensive Social safety net and credit recovery programs.

The Taft Information Technology High School is a 2010 Blue Ribbon School, and has been featured on:

• CBS News
• ABC News
• National Public Radio   (listen here)
• The Christian Science Monitor 
• Education Week 
• and even a book titled “Inside School Turnarounds” 

Visit the school at: http://taftiths.cps-k12.org/