Mason City Schools (Ohio)
{{Short description|School district in Ohio, United States}}
{{Use American English|date=February 2025}}
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{{Infobox school district
| name = Mason City Schools
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| address = 211 North East Street
| city = Mason
| state = Ohio
| province = {{nowrap|United States}}
| zipcode = 45040-1760
| country = {{nowrap|United States}}
| coordinates = {{coord|39|21|45|N|84|18|38|W|dim:250_region:US-_type:edu|name=Mason City Schools Central Office|display=inline,title}}
| type = City school district
| motto = Growing Greatness Together
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| superintendent = Jonathan Cooper{{cite web|title=Superintendent|publisher=Mason City Schools|accessdate=April 12, 2019|url=http://www.masonohioschools.com/leadership/superintendent}}
| chair_of_the_board = Matthew Steele
| governing_agency = Ohio Department of Education
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| us_nces_district_id = {{NCES District ID|3905045|district_name=Mason City|access_date=April 12, 2019}}
| district_id = 050450
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| conference = Greater Miami Conference
| mascot = Comets
| colors = {{color box|green}} {{color box|white}}
| website = {{URL|http://www.masonohioschools.com/}}
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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. Its high school, William Mason High School, is the largest in Ohio by enrollment.
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.{{cite web|title=Warren County|first=Aaron|last=Turner|work=Old Ohio Schools|date=March 7, 2018|accessdate=April 13, 2019|url=http://www.oldohioschools.com/warren_county.htm}}
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.{{cite news|title=Mason growth could taper off|first=Erica|last=Solvig|work=The Cincinnati Enquirer|location=Cincinnati|publisher=Gannett Company|date=July 21, 2003|page=B3|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/30525568/|via=Newspapers.com}} Procter & Gamble opened a Health Care Research Center that spurred construction on almost 40 new subdivisions in Mason.{{cite news|title=New boom packs suburban schools|first=France|last=Griggs|work=The Cincinnati Post|location=Cincinnati|publisher=E. W. Scripps Company|date= March 19, 1996|page=1A|via=NewsBank|quote=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.}} From 1990 to 2002, the district tripled in enrollment from 2,653 students in four buildings to 8,100 students in seven buildings.{{cite news |last1=Clark |first1=Michael D. |last2=Kiesewetter |first2=Sue |date=February 16, 2003 |title=School boom transforming suburbs |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/30527003/ |work=The Cincinnati Enquirer |publisher=Gannett Company |location=Cincinnati |pages=A1, A20 |via=Newspapers.com}} [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/30526871/] By 1998, it had become Mason's fifth-largest employer, with a ${{format price|23000000}} annual budget and 574 employees.{{cite news |last1=Wolff |first1=Christine |last2=Smith |first2=Miriam |title=Student population exploding in suburbs |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/30527294/ |work=The Cincinnati Enquirer |publisher=Gannett Company |location=Cincinnati |pages=A1, A14 |via=Newspapers.com}} [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/30527244/] The district responded to funding and overcrowding concerns by opening a new middle school in 1994, signing a 10-year, ${{format price|1100000}} contract with Pepsi in 1997,{{cite news|title=Mason's Pepsi deal makes other schools turn green|first=Linda|last=Fish-Oda|work=The Cincinnati Enquirer|location=Cincinnati|publisher=Gannett Company|date=February 20, 1997|page=B5|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/30525792/|via=Newspapers.com}} and opening the ${{format price|71900000}}, three-story, {{convert|379000|sqft|adj=on}} William Mason High School in September 2003. District enrollment doubled between 1999 and 2009 before peaking at 11,000 around 2013. A ${{format price|30000000}} addition to the high school opened in 2009.
In 2014, Royalmont Academy, a private Catholic school, purchased the district's former Mason Heights Elementary School for its high school division.{{cite news|title=Catholic high school to open in Mason|first=Karin|last=Johnson|work=WLWT|location=Cincinnati|publisher=Hearst Television|date=August 28, 2015|accessdate=April 12, 2019|url=http://www.wlwt.com/news/local-news/news-warren-county/catholic-high-school-to-open-in-mason/21359030}}
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.{{cite news|title=Education in brief: Ohio schools release 'Quality Profile' reports|first=Hannah|last=Sparling|work=The Cincinnati Enquirer|location=Cincinnati|publisher=Gannett Company|date=September 14, 2016|page=9A|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/30526185/|via=Newspapers.com}}
Geography
The Mason school district covers {{convert|25|sqmi}}{{cite news|title=Mason High's strategy - big is best|first=Michael D.|last=Clark|work=The Cincinnati Enquirer|location=Cincinnati|publisher=Gannett Company|date=March 11, 2013|url=http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20130311/NEWS10/303110035/PASSION-PLACE-Mason-High-s-strategy-big-best|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029192446/http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20130311/NEWS10/303110035/PASSION-PLACE-Mason-High-s-strategy-big-best|archivedate=October 29, 2013}} 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.{{cite map|title=Mason City School District|publisher=City of Mason Engineering, Building & Planning Department|scale=1:950|date=2014|accessdate=April 13, 2019|url=http://www.masonohioschools.com/UserFiles/Servers/Server_391035/File/PDF%20Links/2014_Mason_City_School_District_Boundaries.pdf|format=PDF}} The boundary is marked by small road signs.{{cite web|title=8615 Butler Warren Rd, Deerfield Twp, Ohio 45040|work=Bing Maps|publisher=Microsoft|date=November 11, 2014|accessdate=April 12, 2019|url=https://binged.it/2IvM5Qm}} 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.{{cite map|title=Warren County, Ohio, School Districts Map|scale=Scale not given|location=Lebanon, Ohio|publisher=Warren County Educational Service Center|date=March 28, 2006|accessdate=April 12, 2019|url=http://www.warrencountyesc.com/docs/SCHOOL%20DIST%20MAP.pdf|format=PDF}}{{cite map|title=School districts|scale=1:12,101|location=Hamilton, Ohio|publisher=Butler County GIS Department|date=February 2, 2017|accessdate=April 13, 2019|url=http://www.butlercountyauditor.org/Portals/0/PDF/Maps/SchoolDistricts.pdf|format=PDF}}
Schools
The district operates five schools:
- Mason Early Childhood Center (pre-kindergarten through second grade)
- Mason Elementary School (third grade) through (fourth grade) (Opened 2019-2020 year)
- Mason Intermediate School (fifth grade through sixth grade)
- Mason Middle School (seventh grade and eighth grade)
- William Mason High School (ninth grade through twelfth grade)
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.
References
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External links
- {{Official website|http://www.masonohioschools.com/}}
Category:School districts in Ohio