Dear Olentangy Residents:
Late last week the governor signed Ohio’s new biennium budget bill. This bill includes a reduction in funds for 75% of Ohio schools, including Olentangy, some significant operational changes and a new way of funding Ohio schools. [Read more…]
Forty-five Olentangy students in grades three through eight earned a perfect score on at least one section of the spring 2009 Ohio Achievement Tests (OAT). Three students earned perfect scores on two sections of the test, bringing Olentangy’s total number of perfect scores to 48. This is a district record and a 20 percent increase in perfect scores from 2008. [Read more…]
Olentangy Superintendent Wade Lucas, Ed.D. has released a community message regarding newly released testing results from the 2008-09 school year and the district’s focus on continuous improvement. Community members may read the text version of this message or watch the video version of the message at the following link: olentangyschools.net/blog/superintendent.
This update is the latest in a series of community messages from Lucas. He will regularly post editorials to the Office of the Superintendent Web site as a way to further engage the community. Residents may sign up for a Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feed so they are alerted when a new message has been posted.
Fourteen Olentangy high school students earned a perfect score on the mathematics or social studies portion of the spring 2009 Ohio Graduation Test (OGT). Only 0.2 percent of all students in Ohio achieved a perfect score on this assessment.
The OGT is a five-part assessment covering a student’s knowledge level of Ohio’s academic standards in writing, reading, science, social studies and mathematics. All high school students in Ohio are required to pass all five parts of the test between their sophomore and senior years in order to receive a diploma. In addition, the OGT accounts for ten of the 30 standards included in the Ohio Department of Education’s local report card that is released each year in August.