Mason City Schools (Ohio)

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Mason City Schools
Address
211 North East Street
Mason
, Ohio , United States , 45040-1760
United States
Coordinates 39°21′45″N84°18′38″W / 39.36250°N 84.31056°W / 39.36250; -84.31056 (Mason City Schools Central Office)
District information
Type City school district
MottoGrowing Greatness Together
Grades PreK–12
SuperintendentJonathan Cooper [1]
Chair of the boardMatthew Steele
Governing agency Ohio Department of Education
NCES District ID 3905045 [2]
District ID050450
Students and staff
Students10,627 (2017–18) [2]
Teachers474.36 [2]
Student–teacher ratio22.40 [2]
Athletic conference Greater Miami Conference
District mascotComets
Colors  
Other information
Website www.masonohioschools.com

Mason City Schools (officially the Mason City School District) is a city school district that primarily serves Mason and Deerfield Township in Warren County, Ohio, United States. As of 2018, the district has 10,627 students. [2] Its high school, William Mason High School, is the largest in Ohio by enrollment. [3]

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History

Mason's first school was located on Main Street and stood until the 1960s. New buildings were built for Mason High School on North East Street in 1911, 1936, and 1953. All three are now district administrative offices. Mason Heights Elementary School opened in 1967. [4]

In the 1990s and 2000s, Mason City Schools grew significantly as Cincinnati's urban sprawl pushed northward into Warren County and Mason became Ohio's fastest-growing city. [5] Procter & Gamble opened a Health Care Research Center that spurred construction on almost 40 new subdivisions in Mason. [6] From 1990 to 2002, the district tripled in enrollment from 2,653 students in four buildings to 8,100 students in seven buildings. [7] By 1998, it had become Mason's fifth-largest employer, with a $23 million annual budget and 574 employees. [8] The district responded to funding and overcrowding concerns by opening a new middle school in 1994, [6] signing a 10-year, $1.1 million contract with Pepsi in 1997, [9] and opening the $71.9 million, three-story, 379,000-square-foot (35,200 m2) William Mason High School in September 2003. [7] District enrollment doubled between 1999 and 2009 before peaking at 11,000 around 2013. [3] A $30 million addition to the high school opened in 2009. [3]

In 2014, Royalmont Academy, a private Catholic school, purchased the district's former Mason Heights Elementary School for its high school division. [10]

In 2016, more than 80 school districts, including Mason, began publishing "quality profiles" in addition to the district report cards mandated by the Ohio Department of Education. [11]

Geography

The Mason school district covers 25 square miles (65 km2) [3] in the City of Mason and Deerfield Township in Warren County, as well as small portions of Union and Turtlecreek townships in Warren County and West Chester Township in Butler County. [12] The boundary is marked by small road signs. [13] Kings Local Schools covers parts of Mason and Deerfield Township to the east, Lebanon City Schools includes some areas to the north that have been annexed into the City of Mason, Princeton City Schools includes small portions of Deerfield and West Chester townships to the southwest, and Lakota Local Schools includes the remainder of West Chester Township to the west. [12] [14] [15]

Schools

The district operates five schools:

Junior- and senior-year high school students also have the option to attend one of the four campuses of Great Oaks Institute of Technology and Career Development, a joint vocational school district of which Mason is a member.

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References

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  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "Search for Public School Districts – District Detail for Mason City". National Center for Education Statistics . Institute of Education Sciences . Retrieved April 12, 2019.
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  4. ↑ Turner, Aaron (March 7, 2018). "Warren County". Old Ohio Schools. Retrieved April 13, 2019.
  5. ↑ Solvig, Erica (July 21, 2003). "Mason growth could taper off". The Cincinnati Enquirer . Cincinnati: Gannett Company. p. B3 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. 1 2 Griggs, France (March 19, 1996). "New boom packs suburban schools". The Cincinnati Post . Cincinnati: E. W. Scripps Company. p. 1A – via NewsBank. Ranked fourth in the state for student growth, Mason's enrollment climbed 40.8 percent from 1991 to 1995 and now stands at 3,851 students in grades kindergarten through 12. … Mason's big draw is the new Procter & Gamble Health Care Research Center, which has spawned a phenomenal building boom of nearly 40 subdivisions under construction within the city. … Fresh from a construction project that opened a new middle school in 1994, Mason City Schools is planning to double the size of its high school by 1997 for $18.6 million with proceeds from a bond issue voters recently passed.
  7. 1 2 Clark, Michael D.; Kiesewetter, Sue (February 16, 2003). "School boom transforming suburbs". The Cincinnati Enquirer. Cincinnati: Gannett Company. pp. A1, A20 – via Newspapers.com.
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  9. ↑ Fish-Oda, Linda (February 20, 1997). "Mason's Pepsi deal makes other schools turn green". The Cincinnati Enquirer. Cincinnati: Gannett Company. p. B5 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ↑ Johnson, Karin (August 28, 2015). "Catholic high school to open in Mason". WLWT . Cincinnati: Hearst Television . Retrieved April 12, 2019.
  11. ↑ Sparling, Hannah (September 14, 2016). "Education in brief: Ohio schools release 'Quality Profile' reports". The Cincinnati Enquirer. Cincinnati: Gannett Company. p. 9A – via Newspapers.com.
  12. 1 2 Mason City School District (PDF) (Map). 1:950. City of Mason Engineering, Building & Planning Department. 2014. Retrieved April 13, 2019.
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