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Location Mariemont
City Schools district is located on the east side of Cincinnati, Ohio and
includes the villages of Fairfax, Terrace Park, Mariemont, and the
unincorporated areas of Plainville and Williams Meadows. The district can
trace its founding to April 14, 1879. Quick Facts About the District Mariemont City Schools consists of five schools. Total enrollment is 1,623 students.
The district
employs approximately 200 certified and classified staff. This
includes one full-time librarian, four full-time counselors, one full-time school
psychologist, one part-time director of programs, and one part-time pupil
personnel director. There are three elementary principals and one junior high principal.
The high school has an
assistant principal and principal. General administration
consists of the superintendent and treasurer. Over eighty percent of the district's teachers hold a master degree or above, and average 17 years of teaching experience. Mariemont City Schools boasts eight faculty members who have earned the prestigious National Board Teaching Certification. No Child Left Behind Mariemont City Schools is in compliance with the No Child Left Behind requirement to have a plan for keeping schools safe and drug free that includes appropriate and effective discipline policies, security procedures, prevention activities, a student code of conduct, and a crisis management plan for responding to violent or traumatic incidents on school grounds. Tradition of Excellence Mariemont High School has been named a Blue Ribbon High School by the Department of Education four times. It is the only high school in the state to receive this distinction four times. Terrace Park Elementary School has also been named a No Child Left Behind Blue Ribbon School of Excellence by the U.S. Department of Education. Mariemont City Schools has earned the highest score, Excellent, on the State Report Card every year since its inception. The report card has been in existence for seven years. For the 2006-2007 school year, the district's earned performance index of 106 places Mariemont City Schools in the top 3% of school districts in the state of Ohio. In the National
Merit Competition, Mariemont High School has produced Commended Students,
Semifinalists and Finalists every year since 1959. The Class of 2007 received approximately $1.8 million in scholarship offers from colleges and independent sources. These graduates have matriculated to forty-one different schools in eighteen different states, including such selective institutions as Boston College, Denison University, Stanford University, the University of Virginia, Wake Forest University and Washington University in St. Louis. Ninety percent of the graduates of the Class of 2007 will attend a college or university. Mariemont School District is one of only three Ohio schools to have a direct link to the National Library of Congress through our Veterans History Project. This joint effort of students and staff video records interviews with local World War II, Korean and Vietnam veterans. Mariemont High School offers 14 Advanced Placement Courses to students beginning sophomore year and seven additional honors classes. In 2006-2007, 133 students took Advanced Placement tests in fourteen subjects. A total of 216 exams were administered. 86% of those students scored well enough to be considered "qualified" by the College Board and may be eligible for college credit. According to the College Board a 63% passage rate on Advanced Placement Exams is considered satisfactory. Twenty percent of the high school’s graduating classes earn the “cum laude” distinction, an honor determined by the academic grade average and college entrance exam test scores.c) Mariemont City School District 2003. All uses, transmissions and duplications are prohibited unless permission is granted expressly. Hits since 02/14/03 Updated: 08/15/07
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