Olentangy's Top News

For two years in a row, Olentangy Local Schools placed on the College Board’s District Honor Roll for Significant Gains in Advanced Placement Access and Student Performance. Olentangy is among only 367 school districts across the U.S. and Canada being honored by the College Board.  Schools on this honor roll simultaneously increased access to Advanced Placement® course work while maintaining or increasing the percentage of students earning scores of 3 or higher on AP Exams.  Since 2009, Olentangy Local Schools increased the number of students participating in AP from 841 in 2009 to 1,392 in 2011, while maintaining the percentage of students earning AP Exam scores of 3 or higher at 74% in 2009 and continuing at 74% in 2011. The majority of U.S. colleges and universities grant college credit or advanced placement for a score of 3 or above on AP exams. To view all schools on the College Board’s Honor Roll:

http://media.collegeboard.com/content/pdf/AP_2nd_Annual_Honor_Roll.pdf

Five Olentangy schools will be honored at an awards presentation at the Greater Columbus Convention Center on November 14 by Battelle for Kids’ Subject-Level Award for High Progress. ( SOAR program). This award is designed to acknowledge Ohio schools participating in SOAR for their high academic progress in multiple grade levels in a core subject over the most recent school year. (2010-11) Olentangy Orange High School will be recognized for significant progress in English 9, Olentangy Orange Middle School for Algebra I, Olentangy Shanahan Middle School for science, Olentangy Liberty High School  for biology and Olentangy High School for pre-calculus.

Six eighth grade students from Olentangy’s middle schools have been selected as recipients of the 2011-12 Delaware Optimist Club Youth Appreciation Award. The students were selected as outstanding examples of leadership, citizenship, reliability and are supportive of their school and community. The students from Olentangy are Taylor M., Jacob C., Tara M., Kyle D., Tyler C., and Olivia M.  The students will be recongnized at a ceremony November 3 at Willis Middle School at 7:00 p.m.  For more information about the Youth Appreciation Award and the Delaware Optimist Club:

www.delawareoptimistclub.com/youthappreciation.htm

Author Sandra Phillipson, Illustrator Jenny Campbell and their dogs Tak and Ollie dropped by Wyandot Run Elementary School (WRES) recently.  The Wyandot Run PTO sponsored the visit from the canines and their humans, who have been writing and drawing the Max and Annie children’s book series about dogs since 1999. Second grade students at WRES also used this visit as an opportunity to raise funds for the Delaware County Humane Society by selling dog bones for twenty-five cents.  The project was called “give a dog a bone”.  The students presented an honorary check for five hundred and fifty dollars that was donated to the Humane Society in honor of Phillipson, Campbell, Tak and Ollie.