NORTH ROBINSON–To open Colonel Crawford’s monthly board of education meeting, Mr. Strouse and seniors Lake Rike, Justin Cole, and Levi Johnson, and sophomores Cameron Cox and Holden Ketterman, from his industrial arts classes, presented a PowerPoint on current and previous projects from class to the board.
The Ohio Schools Report Cards for the 2022-2023 school year were released, with Colonel Crawford district earning a 4.5 out of five. The high school earned a five out of five; the middle school earned a five out of five; the 3-5 wing earned a four out of five; and the PreK-2 wing earned a three out of five.
“We are very excited about our state report card scores initially as a district coming out of 4.5 on a five-point scale exceeding state standards. We’re very pleased with our teachers, with our administrators, the efforts of our students, and with our curriculum core consultants who have come in and worked intensively with our teachers. I think we are improving as a district. Each year we’re getting better and this year is just kind of a show of where we’ve gone,” Superintendent Todd Martin said. “The high school and intermediate both scored five out of five, which significantly exceeded state standards. So we’re very pleased. I think the big thing we want to do now is not take our foot off the gas pedal. We want to keep going and keep getting better. I think we’ve always been good at treating kids well, treating families well, watching the academics, watching us improve, and watching the scores get better, I’m excited as a Superintendent. The elementary, we’re kind of a different model–we have two IRNs we break up the elementary into 3-5 and a PreK-2 building–they’re one entity, but there are more grant dollars available and more opportunities if you have more IRNs. But I think it hurts to score. If we were to merge those two groups, I think we’d have a solid four all the way across, exceeding state standards as opposed to having a four and a three which you know is still meeting state standards. I think it would be better on paper overall. We’re just very, very pleased with the effort of everybody. This is a true team effort and we’re going to celebrate it.”
The district earned a five-star rating in progress, gap closing, and graduation rate.
The progress component looks at the growth all students within the district are making based on past performances, and gap closing is a measure of the reduction in educational gaps for student subgroups.
The district has had 100% of students graduate in the past four years, and 98.8% graduate in the past five years.
The girls golf team won the N10 for the fifth time while breaking the N10 record. The team did not lose a match this year and will be in action again at Regionals on Tuesday.
Seniors Lucy Myers, Ayla McKibben, Lexi Rush, and junior Maddy Gray earned First Team N10 honors, while senior Claire Lehman earned Second Team N10 honors.
Myers averaged 40.42, McKibben averaged 45.42, Rush averaged 47.17, Gray averaged 44.08, and Lehman averaged 47.70.
This year’s girls golf Player of the Year was Lucy Myers, and her mother, Roni Halberg, was named the N10 Coach of the Year.
The board approved the resignation of two longtime teachers, Mr. Sam Morris and Ms. Lisa Smith, effective at the end of the 2023-2024 school year.
An anonymous donation of $1350 was accepted for the Outdoor Education Center Fund for wood treatment on the cabin.
The board approved a resolution for META Solutions to advertise and receive bids on the board’s behalf for the purchase of a new school bus. There is currently a two-year wait on buses.
A motion was passed to approve MG Energy as the vendor to install two 6000 CFM Exhaust Fans in the pool area at a cost of $32,972.80. The previous fans were too small and outdated to keep up.
A payment in the amount of two thousand dollars was made to the Crawford County D.A.R.E. Program for the 2023-2024 school year for supplies and items to operate the program.
The next board meeting is October 16 at 7 p.m. in the Media Center.