Wednesday, March 1, 2000
Monroe school district
BY SUE KIESEWETTER
Enquirer Contributor
MONROE — Voters will have the opportunity to create their own school district when they go to the polls March 7.
Residents will be asked whether a Monroe school district should be formed by splitting from the Middletown - Monroe schools.
If approved, the new district, which would include about 85 acres in the Lebanon school district, would begin operations July 1.
“We want to make sure this becomes a community-run school,” said Suzi Rubin, spokeswoman for the Monroe Executive Committee, a group overseeing creation of the new district.
In September, the Ohio State Board of Education reversed its 1997 decision to reject a petition by Monroe's Committee on Reviewing Education to form its own school district and voted to put the matter to a vote of the people.
By law, only those residents who live within the proposed boundaries of the new district will be allowed to vote.
If approved, Monroe would become the state's 612th school district and the first one to be created by deconsolidating one district and taking land from a second. The district would have revenues of almost $11 million and a budget of about $9.5 million, Ms. Rubin said.
The three-year projected budget would be enough to pay for existing programs for three years, provided voters renew operating levies as they come due — the first in 2001.
A bond issue would be needed to rebuilt or relocate Lemon-Monroe High School, which dates to 1924.
Enrollment in the district is estimated at 1,572, which includes a maximum of 1,000 students in grades 7-12 at Lemon-Monroe High School and 572 at Monroe Elementary.
Students now enrolled at Lemon-Monroe who live in Middletown would have first priority to finish high school under an open enrollment plan proposed for grades 9-12 only.
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