Akron Public Schools
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| Located: | Akron OH |
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| Superintendent: | David W. James |
| Students: | 23,000 |
| Staff: | 1,300 |
| Schools: | 48, pre-K through Grade 12 |
| Founded: | 1847 |
| Budget: | $292 million in FY2009 |
| Website: | http://www.akronschools.com |
Akron Public Schools is a school district serving students in Akron, Ohio and nearby communities. It is located in the northeastern part of Ohio, less than 40 miles south of Cleveland and 20 miles north of Canton. The district includes, as of 2009-10, 7 high schools, 10 middle schools and 34 elementary schools. Approximately, 23,000 students are enrolled. [2]
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[edit] Community learning centers
Akron Public Schools is currently undergoing reconstruction of its buildings. Through a partnership with the City of Akron and OSFC, schools in the Akron Public Schools district will be rebuilt or remodeled to become community learning centers by 2015. These are schools by day and community learning centers by night and weekends.
Seventeen CLCs are complete and another 7 are in the design or construction stage. The City of Akron is responsible for scheduling the use of these buildings after school hours.[1]
[edit] Programs offered
Akron Early College High School - Students earn a high school diploma and an associate's degree or up to 72 hours toward a bachelor's degree. 100% of the student body is dual enrolled at both AECHS and The University of Akron. The school serves students in grades 9 - 12 through a rigorous and comprehensive curriculum. Students apply for admission in the 8th grade, and all students begin college cousework in the 9th grade. High school classrooms are located in three buildings on the campus of The University of Akron.
National Inventor's Hall of Fame School...Center for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Learning — This is a new school that opened in fall 2009 and currently houses grades five and six eventually expanding to grades 5-8. This school specializes in hands on learning and emphasizes the use of technology and inquiry learning and will serve as a pilot for successful teaching practices to be used at the district's other schools.
International Baccalaureate — The IB program at Firestone High School is a rigorous two-year curriculum that meets the highest standards required of any high school student in the world.
Career Education—Students can choose from more than 30 two-year, accredited, occupational training programs that meet industry standards and get graduates ready for college or jobs. '
Visual & Performing Arts — Nearly 700 students participate in visual and performing arts programs at Miller South School for the Visual and Performing Arts (grades 4-8) and Firestone High School. Firestone students can earn an arts endorsement on their diploma and transcript. Our students perform at concerts and dance recitals and in a wide variety of music and theatre programs.
College Access — Students can earn a high school diploma and college credit through the Seniors to Sophomores program, or known as S2S, high school seniors can earn a diploma while earning 24 college credit hours at The University of Akron.
[edit] Current schools
[edit] High schools
- Buchtel High School
- East Community Learning Center
- Ellet High School
- Firestone High School
- Garfield High School
- Kenmore High School
- North High School
[edit] Middle schools
- Bridges
- Goodyear
- Hyre CLC
- Innes CLC
- Jennings CLC
- Kent
- Litchfield
- Miller South
- National Inventors Hall of Fame School - Center for STEM Learning
- Perkins
[edit] Elementary schools
- Arnold CLC
- Barber CLC
- Barrett
- Bettes
- Betty Jane CLC
- Bridges
- Case
- Crouse CLC
- Essex
- Findley CLC
- Firestone Park
- Forest Hill CLC
- Glover CLC
- Harris
- Hatton
- Hill CLC
- King
- Lawndale
- Leggett
- Mason CLC
- McEbright
- Pfeiffer
- Portage Path
- Rankin
- Resnik CLC
- Rimer CLC
- Ritzman CLC
- Robinson CLC
- Salem CLC
- Schumacher
- Seiberling
- Smith
- Voris CLC
- Windemere
[edit] Specialty schools
- Adult Learning
- Akron Alternative Academy
- Akron Digital Academy
- Akron Early College High School
- Akron Opportunity Center
- Bridges
- Evening High School
- Miller South
- National Inventors Hall of Fame School - Center for STEM Learning
- Olympus
- School of Practical Nursing
[edit] Schools that have been closed[2]
- Central High School - built in 1884, sat on the current site of Central-Hower High School until it was demolished and replaced in 1973. It was originally known as Akron High School until South was built in 1911, then it was renamed Central.
- Central-Hower High School (123 S. Forge St.) - This building closed at the end of the 2005-2006 school year. It is currently being used as a temporary East High School as their facility is being renovated and expanded. Once East High School is done they will begin to rebuild Buchtel High School and Central Hower will be used by Buchtel kids.
- Crosby - closed in 2004 and is currently used and the Akron Alternative School.
- Goodyear Middle School - The school closed and was combined with East High School once construction was completed.
- Grace Elementary School - Became an antiques mall for a few years, since demolished. The land is now houses a car dealership.
- Fairlawn Elementary School - This Building was demolished in 2006 and replaced by Judith Resnik Community Learning Center, which was built on the same location.
- Erie Island, Stewart, and Lincoln elementary schools closed at the end of the 2008-09 school year.
- Heminger Elementary - Closed in 2008
- Hotchkiss Elementary - closed in 2007 and is now called Bridges, a program with children with disabilities.
- Hower Vocational High School (130 W. Exchange St.) - named for M. Otis Hower (1858-1916), an Akron manufacturing leader. APS opened trade classes in Perkins Elementary in 1927 and eventually renamed the building for Hower. It housed the Central-Hower student body after their merger until 1975 when the new building went up and then was demolished in 1978.[3]
- Lane Elementary - This building was demolished in 1980. Helen Arnold Community Learning Center, which opened in the fall of 2007, was built near the former school to serve students in the neighborhood.
- Margaret Park Elementary - Closed in 2008.
- Perkins Technology Middle School - 3 buildings were constructed (1872, 1920, 1954). The second one was renamed Hower Vocational School. The original building was torn down in 1949.
- Riedinger and Goodrich middle schools closed in 2009.
- South High School (1055 East Ave.) - This school closed at the end of the 1979-1980 school year. It reopened in 1994 as an intermediate visual and performing arts school, renamed Miller-South.
- Thomastown Elementary School - Now houses the Haunted Schoolhouse.
- West High School (315 S. Maple St.) - built in 1914 and closed around 1953 to be reopened as West Jr. High School.[4]
- West Jr. High School - Opened around 1953 in the former West HS. Closed in 1980 and later became senior citizen living apartments.
