NORTH COLLEGE HILL — Students in this city's three public elementary schools will wear uniforms next fall, but students in the the junior-senior high school will not.

        School administrators Wednesday sent letters home with students informing their parents and guardians of the results of a districtwide vote cast in February.

        “The response in our elementaries was overwhelming,” Superintendent Gary Gellert said this week. “Parents clearly wanted to have school uniforms.”

        Uniforms are a step public schools are increasingly taking across the Tristate and the nation. Mr. Gellert believes the district's extracurriculars can combine with the uniform policy to achieve the type of connectedness that educators say is needed to reduce disciplinary problems and increase achievement.

        In December, North College Hill's board of education adopted a policy to allow the district's four schools to decide whether their students would wear uniforms.

        For the issue to pass, 51 percent of the families from each school needed to vote in favor of the uniforms. Ballots were mailed in February. The district has about 1,500 students.

        At the junior-senior high school, voter response wasn't as good as in the elementaries.

        The school needed 323 yes votes to pass the uniform issue. But Mr. Gellert said only 105 junior-senior high families responded — 75 voted yes, 30 voted no (540 did not respond).

        Other results:

        • At Becker Elementary, 132 families voted yes, 35 voted no (68 did not respond).

        • At Goodman Elementary, 82 voted yes, 26 voted no (32 families did not respond).

        • At Clovernook Elementary, 123 families voted yes, 61 voted no (52 families did not respond).

        Mr. Gellert said the uniform shirts will have collars and will be available in solid white or light blue.

        Bottoms will be navy blue or tan khaki, and will be available in traditional or classic-fit pants, slacks, shorts, skirts, skorts or jumpers.

        Shirts are to be tucked in, and if there are belt loops, a belt must be worn.

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