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Blog: Welcome to the New School Year!

Superintendent welcomes everyone to the new school year.

I wish to welcome everyone to another exciting school year! We sincerely look forward to welcoming all of our K-9 students for the first day of school on Wednesday, Aug. 24 and all sophomores, juniors and seniors joining them on the following day.

I am proud to report that our district again has been rated as our district met 100 percent of the indicators on the Ohio Local Report Card. We have maintained that Excellent rating since 2006!  In addition, our High School ACT scores were at a five year high this past year!  The Class of 2011 recorded the highest ACT scores we have had in the last five years in all four subject areas (Math, Reading, Science and Social Studies).   The ACT composite score from last year was also the highest in five years!

You are probably aware that we have new traffic patterns for the campus as well as the . It is our hope that the new patterns will promote additional safety and alleviate, to every extent possible, the backup of traffic on busy roads.

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Please see the websites of these individual schools for more details by visiting www.smfschools.org or read my blog on the school's website here.

Have a great start to the school year!

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