Procter & Gamble has handed St. Xavier High School 25 acres of land near its former Winton Hill campus, and the storied Cincinnati school already has plans to turn the gift into a new cross-country course for its runners. St. Xavier president Tim Reilly has been showing off the future site of the course, located near the school's North Bend Road campus in Cincinnati.
The donation was reported by WKRC, which detailed how the 25 acres came from P&G and will become the site of a dedicated cross-country course for the school. The planned course is less than two miles from St. Xavier's existing campus, putting the future course within easy reach for student-athletes who already train on the school's 125-acre North Bend Road grounds in Springfield Township.
A Program Built for a Showcase Course
St. Xavier's boys cross-country team isn't just any high school squad looking for a new place to run. The program has won six OHSAA Division I state team titles, taking championships in 1998, 2003, 2012, 2013, 2019 and 2020, according to the Ohio High School Athletic Association. The school's distance runners also hold the all-time OHSAA Division I state record in the boys 4x800-meter relay, a mark of 7 minutes, 36.33 seconds set in Columbus in 2014, per OHSAA records.
That pedigree makes the new acreage more than a convenience — it's a potential home turf for a program accustomed to state-level competition. St. Xavier enrolled 1,415 students for the 2025–2026 school year, making it the second-largest private high school in Ohio and one of the 100 largest secondary schools statewide, according to background compiled on Wikipedia.
Part of a Bigger Campus Push Before 2031
The Winton Hill gift lands squarely within St. Xavier's broader expansion as it works toward its 200th anniversary in 2031. Just months earlier, in April 2026, the school purchased a separate 16-acre property directly south of its campus that had previously housed the Cincinnati College of Mortuary Science, part of what the school has described as a comprehensive master plan tied to the bicentennial, according to a post from the Midwest Jesuits on Facebook.
Combined, the moves add up to a rapid reshaping of the school's physical footprint. The 25-acre donation alone expands St. Xavier's total land holdings by exactly 20 percent beyond its existing 125-acre campus, which the school has occupied since relocating from downtown Cincinnati in 1960.
P&G's Winton Hill Property
The donation puts P&G's former Winton Hill campus in focus.
For now, the Winton Hill parcel remains undeveloped, and the timeline for breaking ground on the new course, along with the engineering details and fundraising required to build it, has not been outlined. What's clear is that a school built around a championship distance-running tradition has just been handed a sizable new canvas to work with, right in its own backyard.
