Thursday, April 06, 2000
Springboro hiring elementary teachers
BY SUE KIESEWETTER
Enquirer Contributor
SPRINGBORO — When Springboro Elementary School opens in August, it will add at least 13 teachers and one administrator to Springboro Schools, while advancing a grade reconfiguration plan that should result in smaller classes.
This rapidly growing Warren County school district has seen its enrollment increase by 22 percent — 603 students — since 1995. There are now 3,332 students, with enrollment expected to continue to grow by more than 100 stu dents each year, said Stephen Bartalo, director of education services and support.
The 1998 opening of the new high school — paid from a $29.8 million bond issued approved in 1995 — set the stage for the reorganization of the district's elementary school population from two buildings to three.
The reconfiguration plan called for moving the junior high program into the old high school and renovating the junior high into Springboro Elementary.
The junior high students have moved, but not elementa ry. Put on hold last August because of money woes, the elementary reorganization will move forward this summer thanks to last November's passage of a five-year, 3.33-mill operating levy — the district's fourth try.
It will provide this cash-strapped system $1.4 million this year and each of the next four.
The school board last week approved six new teaching positions, besides the seven elementary teaching jobs previously OK'd since the levy's passage. All will become effective in August, interim Superintendent Ed Perkins said.
Elementary teachers will receive their assignments in August when educators have an idea of which grades have the highest student-teacher ratios.
“This district has been operating on a lean budget,” Mr. Perkins said. “These positions will allow us to open Springboro Elementary and lower class size.”
Simultaneously, interviews will be conducted over the next two weeks with four finalists interested in an elementary school principal vacancy at Jonathan Wright Elementary.
That spot opened because Principal Victor Johantges is moving to Clearcreek Elementary. Clearcreek's principal, Sandra Wray, will transfer to the new Springboro Elementary.
Children in grades kindergarten and one will go to Jonathan Wright. Students in grades two and three will attend Clearcreek Elementary. Springboro Elementary will house grades four and five.
Each of the three schools will have an enrollment of 550-600 students, compared with this year's enrollment of about 800 each at Clearcreek and Jonathan Wright.
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