Stivers School for the Arts

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Stivers School for the Arts
Motto Giving Our Best Performance
Established 1908
Type Public (arts magnet) secondary school
Principal Erin Dooley
Students 870 approx.
Grades 7 - 12
Location 1313 E. Fifth St.,
Dayton, Ohio, U.S.
Colors Orange and Black
Mascot Tiger
Newspaper The Tiger Times
Website Stivers.org
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location: Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio
Flag of the United States United States
Built/Founded: 1908
Architectural style(s): Tudor Revival
Added to NRHP: August 21, 2001[1]
NRHP Reference#: 01000896
Governing body: Dayton, Ohio

Stivers School for the Arts is a magnet school in the Dayton Public Schools in Dayton, Ohio, USA, located in the St. Anne's Hill Historic District neighborhood. It is a public middle- and high school that focuses on education in the visual and performing arts.

Stivers was founded in 1908. Its building is Dayton's oldest school building. Stivers was a high school until the mid-1980s when it became a middle school. It became both a middle and high school gradually starting in the mid 1990s, graduating its first (new) high school class in 2000. It now encompasses grades 7–12 (the only such public school in the school district) and offers programs in music, dance, theatre, creative writing, choir, and visual arts. Students must audition to be admitted. The school currently has around 870 students in grades 7-12.

Stivers was rated an "Effective" school by the Ohio Department of Education for the 2006-2007 school year. [1]

Milton Caniff is a famous alumnus of Stivers. He was a cartoonist and at times in his cartoons referenced a high school called St. Ivers, a reference to his alma mater.

A large donation of $100,000 dollars was given to the Arts school on July 12,2007. This money will help fund the Arts magnet program at Stivers as well as other programs which saw major cuts after a school levy failed and some faculty were cut.[2]

In 2005 Stivers Fifth street building was renovated. The school was relocated to a temporary facility in the Five Oaks Neighborhood in Dayton while the Fifth street building was renovated. On October 29, 2007 Stivers Fifth Street building re-opened to students after two years of construction. [3]

Stivers celebrated its centennial at the first annual SPAVA (Stivers Performing and Visual Arts) Festival May 1-4 2008. [4]

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[edit] Recognitions

  • Selected to be an Ohio Venture Capital school and receive a grant of $25,000 per year for five years, to be used for staff development.
  • Named a Finalist for National Blue-Ribbon School of Excellence in 1992.

[edit] Ohio High School Athletic Association State Championships

[edit] References

  1. ^ National Register Information Systems Retrieved February 16, 2007.
  2. ^ Yappi. Yappi Sports Basketball AAA. Retrieved on 2007-02-12.
  3. ^ OHSAA. Ohio High School Athletic Association Web site. Retrieved on 2006-12-31.

[edit] External links

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