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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
four schools,
serving grades K-12 (with independent preschool
programs available): Mariemont High School, Mariemont Junior
High School, Mariemont Elementary and Terrace Park
Elementary. Total enrollment is approximately
1,664
students.
The district
employs approximately 200 certified and classified staff. This
includes one full-time librarian, two full-time and one part-time counselors, two full-time school
psychologists, one full-time curriculum director and one full-time pupil
personnel director. There are two elementary principals and one junior high principal.
The high school has an
assistant principal and principal. General administration
consists of the superintendent and treasurer.
86% of the district's teachers hold a master
degree or above, and average seventeen years of teaching experience. Mariemont
City Schools boasts twelve faculty members who have earned the prestigious
National Board Teaching Certification. Over
eighty faculty members have received the designation of Master Teacher from the state
of Ohio.
Currently, the district is implementing a
long-term facilities plan, with extensive renovations at both
elementary schools and construction of a new junior high school
building in Fairfax. All three buildings will celebrate
openings in the fall semester of 2012.
Tradition of Excellence
The Mariemont City School district received
the designation of “Excellent ”
on the 2010-2011 State Report Card just issued by the
Ohio Department of Education. The district has met 100% of the
measured performance indicators. Since the inception of the state report
card twelve years
ago, the Mariemont City School district has never earned a
rating below "Excellent". The district's
Performance Index continues to increase, and the 2010-11 score
of 109.4 places the district in the top ten of 614 districts in
the state.
Mariemont High School has earned
the distinction of being named a Blue Ribbon High School by the Department of
Education 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.
Cincy-the
Magazine for Business Professionals, in May 2011 named Mariemont
City Schools the top school district of 35 area suburban
districts.
This June,
Mariemont City Schools was rated the #2 Top Workplace in
Cincinnati (medium-sized) in an Enquirer Media survey, placing
first in the category of Communication.
Student
Achievement
In the National
Merit Competition, Mariemont High School has produced Commended Students,
Semifinalists and Finalists every year since 1959.
The Class of 2011 received
nearly $5 million in scholarship offers from colleges and independent
sources. Sixty-five of the 125 graduates were offered college-sponsored
scholarships. Students received admission acceptance at 134 different colleges.
Mariemont High School 2011 grads are attending such selective
institutions as Berklee College of Music, Clemson University, Dartmouth College,
Stanford University, University of Michigan, Vanderbilt University, Washington
University in St. Louis and Williams College.
Fifty-two
seniors earned Honors Diplomas from the state of Ohio, while
forty-seven graduates earned the "President's Award for Education
Excellence". Twenty
percent of the high school’s graduating class earn the “cum laude”
distinction, an honor determined by the academic grade average and college
entrance exam test scores.
In
2010-2011, 131 students took Advanced Placement
tests in twelve subjects. A total of 231 exams were administered. 93% 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.
Mariemont High
School currently offers fifteen
Advanced Placement Courses to students beginning sophomore year and eight
additional honors classes.
Mariemont
City School District is one of only three Ohio districts 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.
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.
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