South-Western City School District (Franklin County, Ohio)

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superintendent = Bill Wise
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location = Grove City, Ohio
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The South-Western City School District is a public school district centered in Grove City, Ohio, southwest of the city of Columbus. The district serves nearly 22,000 students throughout the southwest quadrant of Franklin County, including the cities of Galloway, Georgesville, Grove City, and Urbancrest. The district also serves all of Franklin, Jackson, Pleasant, and Prairie townships and a small portion of Columbus.

The district operates 17 elementary schools, five intermediate schools, five middle schools, four high schools, and a career academy. It is the 6th largest school district in Ohio, directly behind the Toledo and Akron city school districts. The district has nearly 5,000 more students than the Dayton Public School System.

chools

Elementary

* Alton Hall Elementary School
* Buckeye Woods Elementary School
* Darbydale Elementary School
* Darby Woords Elementary School
* East Franklin Elementary School
* Finland Elementary School
* Harmon Elementary School
* Harrisburg Elementary School
* Highland Park Elementary School
* Monterey Elementary School
* North Franklin Elementary School
* Prairie Lincoln Elementary School
* Prairie Norton Elementary School
* Richard Avenue Elementary School
* J.C. Sommer Elementary School
* Stiles Elementary School
* West Franklin Elementary School

Intermediate

* Franklin Woods Intermediate School
* Galloway Ridge Intermediate School
* Hayes Intermediate School
* Holt Crossing Intermediate School
* Park Street Intermediate School

Middle

* Brookpark Middle School
* Findland Middle School
* Jackson Middle School
* Norton Middle School
* Pleasant View Middle School

econdary

* Central Crossing High School (2002)
* Franklin Heights High School (1956)
* Grove City High School (1970)
* South-Western Career Academy (2002)
* Westland High School(1970)

Funding

SWCS has recently had issues with funding. While they passed a property-tax school levy on their third try in may of 2005, a drop in funding from the state as well as other factors such as a spike in gas prices force the school to make over 14 million dollars in cuts after passing the levy. In November 2006 they attempted to pass another levy, a 1% income tax, it was handily defeated. Fortunately, due to a relatively warm winter and several other items, they have announced they will only need to cut one million dollars out of the next year's budget. They decided not to try to pass a levy in May 2007 in hopes that the state budget, set to be re-done in summer of 2007, will provide more funding.

As an interesting side note: School funding in the State of Ohio has been declared unconstitutional four separate times, and a group calling themselves "Getting it Right!" [http://www.rightforohio.org] has begun circulating a petition for adding an amendment to the Ohio Constitution that will make a stronger case for educational funding.

The School Board members are:

Amy Baker
Cathy Johnson
Gary Leasure
Jim Lester
Greg McCarty

Gary Leasure and Jim Lester have announced their retirement

Randy Reisling [http://www.randyreisling.com] and Melinda Garverick have announced their candidacy for school board. The election is 11/6/2007

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