Mason or Loveland (Cincinnati, Waynesville, Wayne: school districts, subdivisions, live in)

[ctmomof2]

We are from Connecticut and are relocating to the Cincy area this Spring. We have 2 children ages 2 & 5 and after visiting last week we have narrowed our search down to Mason & Loveland based on the school districts. We like that Mason is a newer city and have highly ranked schools, but the schools seem very large to us. Does anyone know the # of students in the elementary classes and the # of class rooms? We currently live in a town with 19,000 people w/ excellent schools. What is the population of Mason vs. Loveland? I have gotten different #'s from different search engines on the internet. Any help, advise, on these 2 towns would be great!

[goyguy]

My sister and BIL settled in Loveland some sixteen years ago, and decided to stay there last year when they needed to upsize (is that a word, well it is now.) You can't rely on Web databases for either Loveland's or Mason's population numbers because both communities are in a growth trend.
I have no great fondness for either town; they're both small farming/industrial villages which have morphed into suburbs filling up with subdivisions and big-box stores. Bleccchhhhh. Loveland, however, is bisected by the Little Miami, which is a "national scenic river" - great to canoe in or fish alongside. The bicycle trail leading north all the way to Waynesville also passes through. You'd also be a tad bit closer to I-275 there, with easy access to 71.
The typical class size in Loveland schools is less than 30 in the elementary grades. The city has responded capably to the need for more academic space as the number of kids increases - new high school, addition to the middle school, etc. I have no reason to doubt that Mason is doing the same.
Based admittedly on anecdotes and detached observation, I'd say Mason leans more conservative than Loveland, but Cincinnati as a whole is a lot more "red" than CT anyway. One example: A bar in Mason caused a stir by showing open hostility to Spanish-speaking would-be customers by putting up "English Only" signs. Contrast that with a newly-moved-in neighbor telling my sister that they'd relocated from another town because Loveland incorporated lessons about Jewish traditions in their classrooms and their former community did not.
By and large, there's little to distinguish Mason from Loveland, and you'd probably do fine no matter which place you end up selecting.

[HuskerDu]

In other words, the suburbs up in that area are pretty much all the same.