Kent City School District

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Kent City School District
Kent City Schools logo.png
Address
321 North DePeyster Street
Kent
, Ohio , 44240
United States
Coordinates 41°09′24″N81°21′21″W / 41.15667°N 81.35583°W / 41.15667; -81.35583
District information
Type Public
GradesPre-K through 12
Established1860
SuperintendentTom Larkin
NCES District ID 3904416 [1]
Students and staff
Students3,273 (2021–22) [1]
Teachers189
Staff273
Other information
Website kentschools.net

The Kent City School District is a public school district based in Kent, Ohio, United States. It serves approximately 3,100 students living in Kent, Franklin Township, Brady Lake, and Sugar Bush Knolls, as well as a small portion of southern Streetsboro. [2] The district has seven schools including four elementary schools housing kindergarten through fifth grade with preschool housed at one elementary school; Stanton Middle School for grades 6–8; and Theodore Roosevelt High School, which houses grades 9–12. The superintendent is Tom Larkin, who began his tenure August 1, 2023. Larkin previously served as assistant superintendent and has been with the district since 1996. [3]

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History

The district was formed around 1860 [4] by merging several smaller one-room school house districts into one centralized district for the village. As Kent was still known as Franklin Mills, the district was originally known as the "Franklin Union School District". [5] The district would continue to be known as a "Franklin Union" district even after residents voted to change the name of the village from Franklin Mills to Kent in 1864. During the 1860s, the district began to divide the students in the school houses by grade level. As a result of the curriculum and management changes, the district elected to close the schoolhouses and erect a centralized building for all grades. Although initially planned for 1868, construction delays prevented the building from opening until March 1869. During the school year leading up to the opening of the new building, which would initially be known as the "Union School" and later as "Central School," students in the high school grades were housed at the Franklin Township Hall [6] in Kent while all other grades remained at their respective school house. The building would serve as the home of all students until growth in the community necessitated the construction of two additional elementary schools: South School in 1880 and DePeyster School in 1888. [4] Even with the new schools, the original Union/Central building would be the home of Kent High School until 1922. [4]

This building originally served as Theodore Roosevelt High School when it opened in 1922. It would later serve as Davey Junior High School/Davey Middle School from 1959 to 1999, and since 2000, as Davey Elementary School. Kent Davey Elementary.jpg
This building originally served as Theodore Roosevelt High School when it opened in 1922. It would later serve as Davey Junior High School/Davey Middle School from 1959 to 1999, and since 2000, as Davey Elementary School.

As Kent continued to grow throughout the twentieth century, new schools and changes became necessary. A new high school was built in 1922 and was named in honor of Theodore Roosevelt. The original Union School continued to be used as an elementary school known as Central School until 1953 when a new Central Elementary School was constructed on its predecessor's front yard. Following the completion of the new school, the Union School building was torn down. Additional elementary schools followed first with the construction of Longcoy Elementary School on the city's west side. By 1958 the high school had outgrown its facility, so a new high school building was built on the north side of the city. It retained the name of Theodore Roosevelt and the former high school building was rechristened as Davey Junior High School in the fall of 1959 when the new high school opened. 1959 also saw the merging of the Franklin Local School District and the Brady Lake School District into the Kent City Schools, [7] which added two more elementary schools: Franklin Elementary and Emma Williard (Brady Lake) Elementary. The 1960s saw the last elementary schools built in Kent with the opening of Holden Elementary in 1965 on the city's south side and Walls Elementary on the east side in 1966. [8] Most of South School was razed in 1966 following the completion of Holden except for the building's gym which was leased to the Kent Parks and Recreation Department and used as the Kent Recreation Center. Enrollment growth through the 1960s and into the 1970s resulted in additions at Walls School, Davey Junior High School, and Roosevelt High School. Also in 1970, the district entered into a cooperative agreement with the Stow-Munroe Falls, Cuyahoga Falls, Woodridge, Tallmadge, and Hudson school districts to provide vocational education. This compact, known as the Six District Compact, was the first of its kind in the state of Ohio. [9] In 1978, ninth graders were moved from Davey to Roosevelt, Emma Williard School was closed, and the school board moved into offices in the renovated DePeyster School building. [10]

Facilities

Administrative
FacilityLocationHeadPhoto
District offices321 N. DePeyster St.
41°9′24″N81°21′21″W / 41.15667°N 81.35583°W / 41.15667; -81.35583 (Kent City School District offices) 		Tom Larkin,

Superintendent

 Kent DePeyster 2.JPG
Transportation Center1633 St. Clair Ave.
41°8′20″N81°21′52″W / 41.13889°N 81.36444°W / 41.13889; -81.36444 (Kent City School District Transportation Center) 		Richard Lewis [11] Kent Schools Transportation Center.jpg
Christenson Operations Center1205 Brady Lake Rd.
41°9′51″N81°20′18″W / 41.16417°N 81.33833°W / 41.16417; -81.33833 (Kent City School District Christenson Operations Center) 		Robert Munroe
Elementary schools
SchoolGradesLocationPrincipalFaculty*Enrollment*Photo
Davey Elementary SchoolPK–5196 N. Prospect St.
41°9′27″N81°22′1″W / 41.15750°N 81.36694°W / 41.15750; -81.36694 (Davey Elementary School) 		Abbey Bolton [12] 26 [13] 450 [13] Kent Davey Elementary.jpg
Holden Elementary SchoolK–5132 W. School St.
41°8′33″N81°21′34″W / 41.14250°N 81.35944°W / 41.14250; -81.35944 (Holden Elementary School) 		Todd Poole [14] 14 [13] 254 [13] Holden Elementary.jpg
Longcoy Elementary SchoolK–51069 Elno Ave.
41°8′45″N81°22′56″W / 41.14583°N 81.38222°W / 41.14583; -81.38222 (Longcoy Elementary School) 		Janice Swan [15] 16 [13] 276 [13] Longcoy Elementary.jpg
Walls Elementary SchoolK–5900 Doramor St.
41°9′29″N81°20′43″W / 41.15806°N 81.34528°W / 41.15806; -81.34528 (Walls Elementary School) 		Heidi Singer [16] 21 [13] 367 [13] Walls Elementary.jpg
Middle school
Stanton Middle School6–81175 Hudson Rd.
41°10′8″N81°21′47″W / 41.16889°N 81.36306°W / 41.16889; -81.36306 (Stanton Middle School) 		Kathy Scott [17] 47 [13] 659 [13] Kent Stanton 1.jpg
High school
Theodore Roosevelt High School 9–121400 N. Mantua St.
41°10′8″N81°21′22″W / 41.16889°N 81.35611°W / 41.16889; -81.35611 (Theodore Roosevelt High School) 		Dennis Love [18] 80 [13] 1,267 [13] Kent Roosevelt front 2.jpg
Former schools
SchoolGradesLocationBuilding statusYears operatedNotesPhoto
Franklin Elementary SchoolK–56662 SR 43
41°10′17″N81°21′8″W / 41.17139°N 81.35222°W / 41.17139; -81.35222 (Franklin Elementary School) 		Sold to Davey Tree in 2021 [19] 1922–2014Served as Franklin Township School, 1922–1959 Kent Franklin.jpg
Central School200 N. Mantua St.
41°9′20″N81°21′44″W / 41.15556°N 81.36222°W / 41.15556; -81.36222 (Central School Annex) 		Leased to the LEAP program [20] 1953–2014Housed Central Elementary School, 1953–2000
Annex of Roosevelt High School, 2000–2014		 Central Annex.jpg
Emma Williard School1–8; K–61945 Brady Lake Rd.
41°10′08″N81°19′27″W / 41.168988°N 81.324028°W / 41.168988; -81.324028 (Emma Williard School) 		Sold to private developer; addition demolished, original building renovated into condos1923–1978Merged into Kent Schools 1959 Emma Williard School.JPG
Union School/Central School1–12; 1–8200 N. Mantua St.
41°09′22″N81°21′44″W / 41.155978°N 81.362330°W / 41.155978; -81.362330 (Union School) 		Demolished 19531869–1952Housed all grades, 1869–1922
Replaced by new Central School, 1952
South SchoolK–61115 Franklin Ave.
41°08′36″N81°21′36″W / 41.143306°N 81.360104°W / 41.143306; -81.360104 (South School) 		Demolished 19661880–1966Replaced by Holden Elementary School

* = enrollment and faculty numbers as of the 2018–19 school year

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