Newark City School District
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Newark City School District is a public school district in the city of Newark, Ohio. The district is the largest in Licking County, with nearly 7,000 students.
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[edit] District history
The district was formed in 1848 after the passage of a voter petition to unify the schools in Newark under one system. The first school board was elected on September 19, 1849. A "Negro school" operated from 1859 until 1888 to provide segregated education to African American children in the Newark district.
At the request of the U.S. government in 1940, the district initiated industrial training programs that were intended to assist in national defense. The shops operated 24 hours a day, six days a week, and after the attack on Pearl Harbor, became directly funded by the government to expand into a second building and thirty-five classes. It has been estimated that the district trained 8,000 people between 1940 and 1945 with skills essential to the national defense industries.
As of 2005, three additional elementary schools and two middle schools are slated to begin construction.
As of September 2006 construction is underway on Carson, Cherry Valley, Hillview, and Legend Elementary Schools as well as Heritage (old Lincoln), and Liberty Middle Schools
[edit] District management
The district's Board of Education consists of five citizens elected to staggered four-year terms, with one president, one vice-president, and three members. In addition to the general goal of educating the district's students, the Board has the specific duties of hiring the district's superintendent and treasurer, overseeing the annual budget, and approving contracts with district employees. Board meetings are open to the public and held in the high school library.
The superintendent is directly responsible to the district Board of Education, and implements board policies. He administers the district's educational programs and has final responsibility for curriculum, staffing, and evaluation. All district employees are responsible to the superintendent, except for the treasurer, who is also a direct employee of the board. In cooperation with the superintendent, the treasurer manages the district's financial, legal and contractual affairs.
[edit] Schools
[edit] Newark Digital Academy
Grades K-12. An online, state-accredited distance learning program.
[edit] Newark High School
Grades 9-12. Average enrollment is approximately 1700 students; an additional 150 students attend the Career Technical Education Center (C-TEC) associated with the school. The staff is around 190. The high school was built in 1959 and opened in 1961. The current high school is campus-style, with 7 classroom buildings, an auditorium, a gymnasium, and the facility in which the entire district's lunches are produced. Newark plays division I athletics in the Ohio Division of the Ohio Capital Conference. Major athletics rivalries are with Lancaster High School and Zanesville High School.
[edit] Middle schools
Grades 6-8. Wilson and Lincoln (Lincoln is now called "Heritige") are the oldest of the three Middle school, the Liberty opened this year in 2007.
- Heritige Middle School (the old Lincoln Middle school)
- Liberty Middle School
- Wilson Middle School(old Roosevelt Middle School building)
[edit] Elementary schools
Grades PK-5, though some only cover K-5.Carson, Hillview and Ledgend where constructed in 2007
- Ben Franklin Elementary School
- Carson Elementary School
- Cherry Valley Elementary School
- John Clem Elementary School
- Legend Elementary School
- McGuffey Elementary School
- Miller Elementary School
