Fort Recovery pleased with scores

FORT RECOVERY — Scores are still tentative, but Fort Recovery school administrators are pleased with the way students performed on Ohio Achievement Assessments.
Fort Recovery School Board learned Thursday that at least 82 percent of students passed each test in the OAA, which includes reading and math in third through eighth grades as well as science in fifth and eighth grades. That included all 61 seventh graders passing the reading test.
The board also learned about new classes that will be offered at the middle school this year.
Every seventh grader in Fort Recovery passed the reading test, as well as 69 out of 70 eighth graders and 75 of 77 fourth graders.
“I think we have a lot to be proud of there,” said middle school principal Matt Triplett. “I’m really pleased about those numbers.”
The district’s lowest scores came in math as 82 percent of third and fifth graders passed that portion of the OAA.
Board members Jose Faller, Ginny Fortkamp, Dave Hull, Amy Bihn and Aaron Guggenbiller also learned about the addition of Introduction to Theatre, Genius Hour and Middle School Transition courses at Fort Recovery Middle School.
Genius Hour will be a course in which students work on projects of interest to them that could benefit the school, community or beyond. It is open to all sixth graders.
Middle School Transition will be a nine-week course that teaches study and organizational skills.
In other business, board members:
•Approved the hiring of teachers Tori Horstman (art), Gina Evers (intervention specialist) and Kathleen Heitkamp (classified substitute), advisors Robyn Armstrong (LPDC core committee) and Bob Heitkamp (fourth grade chair), coaches Joe Bruns (assistant boys basketball), Eric Hemmelgarn (track), Mindy Bubp (assistant track), Jeff Vaughn (volunteer assistant girls golf) and Amber Fennig (cheerleading), bus driver Lori Collins and substitute bus driver Nicholas Brockman. Also approved the resignation of Amber Fennig as middle school basketball cheerleader advisor.
•Heard from high school principal Jeff Hobbs that students attended the Family, Career and Community Leaders of America National Leadership Conference July 6 through 10 in San Antonio. Faith Hull, Brooke Gower and Alexis Hobbs teamed to earn a gold award, and Jill Roessner and Abby Wenning came away with a silver award.
•Set preschool tuition fees of $65 — two days per week, in district; $99 — four days per week, in district; $76 — two days per week, out of district; $128 — four days per week, out of district.
•Heard from elementary school principal Tracy Hein Evers that an open-building night is scheduled for 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Aug. 18.
Also playground equipment at the elementary/middle school is in the process of being painted, and second and third graders will participate in a new fundraiser this year in which they will sell canned meats from Cooper Farms.
•Learned from superintendent Shelly Vaughn that the elementary/middle school auditeria and Fort Site Fieldhouse will serve as an alternate sites for Fort Recovery Friends of the Arts’ summer concert series in case of inclement weather.
•Approved handbooks for high and middle school athletics, middle school staff, elementary school students, elementary school staff and preschool policies.
•Transferred $270,000 from the permanent improvement fund to the general fund.
•Accepted a donation of $700 to the preschool from Psi Iota Xi.[[In-content Ad]]