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Boys cross country win city championship
The Braves boys won the city league cross country championship yesterday and the girls finished 2nd!
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Golf wins city championship
Whetstone won the golf city championship with a total score of 181 points.
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CCS Celebrates the Great Lakes Great Apple Crunch Day
Columbus City Schools and the District's Farm to School Initiative joined forces with the Great Lakes Great Apple Crunch for one great crunch... out of an apple!
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SHOUT-OUTS: Multiple Columbus City Schools Show Improvement, Achievement In Key Areas
Columbus City Schools is proud to shout-out and acknowledge the following achievements by its schools across the region, indicating advancement by students in several key areas of academic and personal development.
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It's FAFSA Time: Is Your Student Ready?
It's time to get those FAFSA applications in for the 2020-21 school year. Columbus City Schools seniors are now able to submit their Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). The District's college access program, I Know I Can, is supporting the college dreams of every student by holding a series of FAFSA Workshops throughout October and November.
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CCS Juniors and Seniors to Participate In Kiwanis College Fair
The 40th annual Kiwanis College Fair partnered with Columbus City Schools and I Know I Can, to bring hundreds of juniors and seniors from CCS high schools and neighboring school districts to visit with colleges and universities across the nation.
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Principals Participate in a Data Walk Looking at Strategies to Improve Students' Academic Performance
Principals across the District came together for a Professional Development Day to dive deeper into a MAP Growth Action Plan. Using MAP Growth data to pinpoint the instructional areas students are ready to tackle—whether they’re on, above, or below grade level. Looking at information collected from the 2018-2019 State Report Card, District and Ohio’s State assessment tests.
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Columbus City Schools Teams-up with Ohio State University Students and Community Partners to Grow Learning Garden Initiatives
School Garden Program sees growth with assistance from Ohio State University students. New this year, 44 learning gardens are getting a makeover, while 20 new gardens are in the process of being built this fall.
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Class of 2020 Encouraged To Reach Higher As They Set The Course For Graduations & Beyond
Columbus City Schools, I Know I Can, and the City of Columbus came together to celebrate the Class of 2020 during the “Reach Higher: All Seniors In” Convocation at the Columbus Convention Center on September 20. More than 2,100 students from the Districts 19 high schools attended the event aimed at inspiring all students to take charge of their future and complete an education past high school, serve in the military or start a career.
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Columbus City Schools Makes Gains on 2019 State Report Card
Columbus City Schools saw a letter-grade improvement on its overall score, in addition to gains made across various components, on its State Report Card which was released by the Ohio Department of Education (ODE) on Thursday morning.
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Braves headed to Volleyball City championship!The JV volleyball team defeated Centennial yesterday to earn their way in to the JV City Championship vs Eastmoor Academy on Saturday, October 12. The JV match begins at 10:00am.The varsity match, Whetstone vs Africentric will begin at the conclusion of the JV match.The championship will be played at Africentric.
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Michael Newell-Dimoff's work will be published in the 2019 edition of Flip the Page, Central Ohio’s Teen Literary Journal. The student is in Mrs. Arnold's English class
There were over 350 high-quality submissions from young Central Ohio writers, ages 13 to 19. Submissions were reviewed by a committee of teen writers and the editorial staff. Choosing the very best pieces was a challenging task, and competition was fierce.
Authors will be present at the Flip the Page readings the Columbus Arts Festival! Authors have the opportunity to read on Saturday, June 8th from 12:00 – 1:30 pm and Sunday, June 9th from 1:00 – 2:00 pm. They will perform on the “Word Is Art” Stage.
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Sophomore Dominic Panzo joined thousands of students and educators from around the country to compete, showcase their business skills, and develop their leadership portfolio at the 2019 Business Professionals of America National Leadership Conference in sunny Anaheim, CA.Panzo competed in the Fundamentals of Spreadsheet Application; creating, formatting formulas etc. The conference prepares students for careers in business and information technology by giving students practical experience through application of the skills learned in their academic programs. Panzo is one of five students in the state to qualify for the National Leadership Conference Fundamentals of Spreadsheet competition.
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Congressional Arts Contest awards ceremony held last night at the Columbus Museum of Art. Congressman Troy Balderson from Ohio's 12th District (at the microphone) announced Declan (in the blue tie) as the third place winner in the Congressional Arts Contest.It was quite an honor for him as they had received hundreds of submissions of artwork from 20+ schools. Incidentally, his winning piece was the one that he was recognized nationally for earlier this year.
He has also been inducted into the National Technical Honor Society.
