I believe Georgesville Rd and points west is Westland, or it was at one time?
Both Franklin Heights and the SWCS district go back to the 50's, about 20 years before Briggs. I believe Heights got a new high school building (or addition) five or six years ago. Win-Win was implemented in the 80's, wasn't it?
I don't think Westland is all that tough of sell....they get hammered, which in turn probably detracts kids from coming out for sports. Franklin Heights, Westland and Whitehall all in the same league works. All three would work in the City League as well.
Close enough.. Here's the current school attendance area - notice all the holes in the FH/Westland area. This was not due to Win-Win - but rather due to decisions made by individual homeowners or developers years in light of expansion of the Columbus city limits.
West side of 23? Where abouts roughly? I heard years ago they were looking a couple miles south of the Jegs warehouse area.
imagine that, another levy to fund it all. This new HS would be just north of Liberty, so I'd assume they'd take the biggest hit from a redistricting standpoint.
Great question. They also may need to look at replacing buildings like the old middle school and Olentangy high school.
Olentangy HS was built in 1990, shanahan middle in 1952 but the other 25 or so buldings were in the last 20 or so years. Olentangy was a D3 school 30 years ago. By the time the 5th Hs is built the district enrollment will be around 27k (27-28) and around 30k in 33-34. Last I saw max build out would be around 35-40k enrollment.
And the OVAC has no scheduling rules or requirements except to say if you don’t play enough league games you’re ineligible for the title. A highly dysfunctional league trying to merge teams from two states with the oddest classification system ever seen.
I would think sometime in the not-too-distant future a good number of houses will become empty nester which will slow the growth of the school's enrollment.
Eventually but a lot of them move to another district once their kids are gone. Only the orange hs zone is done w/ growth. I think the Berlin HS zone is only 50% developed. Based on projections it looks like about 400-500 new students each year until 33-34.
The OVAC isn't a conference; it's a cluster (there's another word I could put after that; but it'd likely offend some people). At least the OCC has divisions and structure, even despite how often it's adjusted (however necessary that might be).
There are homes still being built within Orange HS area. If anything continued growth with OHS and Berlin would have Orange getting back neighborhoods that it lost from the last re districting.
“Structure” is the perfect word to describe what the OVAC does NOT have.
I am not from central Ohio and keeping seeing the term "win-win" in any discussion about Columbus area schools. What is "win-win"? Some legal agreement?
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