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Mariemont Elementary Terrace Park Elementary Mariemont Junior High Mariemont High School
District Profile

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 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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