Toledo City School District
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{{Infobox school district
| name = Toledo Public Schools
| native_name = Toledo City Schools
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| address = 1609 N. Summit St.
Toledo, Ohio 43604
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| county = Lucas
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| country = United States
| type = Public School District
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| grades = PreK-12
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| superintendent = Romules Durant{{cite web |title=Superintendent Dr. Romules Durant |url=https://www.tps.org/dr-romules-durant.html |website=Toledo Public Schools |access-date=24 July 2019}}
| deputy_superintendent = Jim Gant, James Gault{{cite web |title=Administration |url=https://www.tps.org/departments/administration.html |website=Toledo Public Schools |access-date=24 July 2019}}
| school_board = 5 members{{cite web |title=The work of your board of education |url=https://www.tps.org/discover-tps/board-of-education.html |website=Toledo Public Schools |access-date=24 July 2019}}
| chair_of_the_board = Stephanie Eichenberg{{cite web |title=The work of your board of education |url=https://www.tps.org/discover-tps/board-of-education.html |website=Toledo Public Schools |access-date=24 July 2019}}
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| schools = 8 high schools, 42 elementary schools, 8 special schools (2018){{cite web |last1=Clark Schaefer Hacket CPAs & Advisors |title=Toledo City School District: Single Audit Reports Year End June 20, 2018 |url=https://www.tps.org/images/2019/FY-18-Audit-Report-and-Comprehensive-Annual-Financial-Report.pdf |website=Toledo Public Schools |access-date=24 July 2019}}
| budget = $447.3 million (2017-2018 school year){{cite web |title=Toledo City School Report Card: Financial Data - Sources of Funding |url=https://reportcard.education.ohio.gov/district/finance/044909 |website=Ohio Department of Education |access-date=24 July 2019}}
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| affiliations = The Ohio 8{{cite web |title=Home Page |url=http://ohio8coalition.org/ |website=The Ohio 8 |access-date=24 July 2019}}
| students = 23324 (2018-2019 school year){{cite web |title=Enrollment Data |url=http://education.ohio.gov/getattachment/Topics/Data/Frequently-Requested-Data/Enrollment-Data/oct_hdcnt_fy19.xls.aspx?lang=en-US |website=Toledo Public Schools |access-date=24 July 2019}}
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| staff = 4373 total employees (2018){{cite web |last1=Clark Schaefer Hacket CPAs & Advisors |title=Toledo City School District: Single Audit Reports Year End June 20, 2018 |url=https://www.tps.org/images/2019/FY-18-Audit-Report-and-Comprehensive-Annual-Financial-Report.pdf |website=Toledo Public Schools |access-date=24 July 2019}}
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| website = {{URL|https://www.TPS.org}}
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|free_label = Treasurer
|free_text = Ryan Stechschulte{{cite web |title=Treasurer's Division |url=https://www.tps.org/departments/treasurers-division.html |website=Toledo Public Schools |access-date=24 July 2019}}
|free_label2 = Asst. Superintendents
|free_text2 = Linda Meyers,{{cite web |title=Administration |url=https://www.tps.org/departments/administration.html |website=Toledo Public Schools |access-date=24 July 2019}} Brian Murphy{{cite web |title=Strategic Plan |url=https://www.tps.org/discover-tps/strategic-plan.html |website=Toledo Public Schools |access-date=24 July 2019}}
|free_label3 = Vision
|free_text3 = "Become an “A” Rated school district whose graduates are college and career ready."{{cite web |title=Strategic Plan |url=https://www.tps.org/discover-tps/strategic-plan.html |website=Toledo Public Schools |access-date=24 July 2019}}
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Toledo Public Schools, also known as Toledo City School District, is a public school district headquartered in Toledo, Ohio, in the United States. The district encompasses 70 square miles, serving students of the city of Toledo.{{cite web |title=School District Square Mileage |url=http://education.ohio.gov/Topics/Finance-and-Funding/School-Transportation/School-Transportation-Finance/School-District-Square-Mileage |website=Ohio Department of Education |access-date=24 July 2019}} Toledo Public Schools (TPS), serves 23,324 students (2018-2019 school year){{cite web |title=Enrollment Data |url=http://education.ohio.gov/getattachment/Topics/Data/Frequently-Requested-Data/Enrollment-Data/oct_hdcnt_fy19.xls.aspx?lang=en-US |website=Toledo Public Schools |access-date=24 July 2019}} and is the fourth largest district in the state. Since 2013, TPS has experienced growth in student enrollment from 21,353 students to 23,324 for the 2018-2019 school year.
The district has seen the graduation rate improve 7.5 percent since 2014. The 4-year graduation rate for students who entered the 9th grade in 2014 and graduated by 2017 was 71.4 percent. The 5-year graduation rate for students who entered the 9th grade in fall of 2013 and graduated by the summer of 2017 was 78.5 percent.{{cite web |title=Toledo City School Report Cards: Graduation Rate |url=https://reportcard.education.ohio.gov/district/gradrate/044909 |website=Ohio Department of Education |access-date=24 July 2019}}
TPS budget includes local, state, federal, and other funds, totaling more than $447.3 million (2017-2018 school year). The majority (63.2 percent) of the districts budget comes from state funding, 22.4 percent from local sources, and 11.5 percent from federal funds.{{cite web |title=Toledo City School Report Card: Financial Data - Sources of Funding |url=https://reportcard.education.ohio.gov/district/finance/044909 |website=Ohio Department of Education |access-date=24 July 2019}} In 2018, TPS was the regions fifth largest employer behind ProMedica Health System, Mercy Health Partners, The University of Toledo, and Fiat Chrysler, with 4373 employees.{{cite web |last1=Clark Schaefer Hacket CPAs & Advisors |title=Toledo City School District: Single Audit Reports Year End June 20, 2018 |url=https://www.tps.org/images/2019/FY-18-Audit-Report-and-Comprehensive-Annual-Financial-Report.pdf |website=Toledo Public Schools |access-date=24 July 2019}} The district employees 1835 teachers (2018){{cite web |last1=Clark Schaefer Hacket CPAs & Advisors |title=Toledo City School District: Single Audit Reports Year End June 20, 2018 |url=https://www.tps.org/images/2019/FY-18-Audit-Report-and-Comprehensive-Annual-Financial-Report.pdf |website=Toledo Public Schools |access-date=24 July 2019}} who are represented by the Toledo Federation of Teachers.{{cite web |title=Agreement between the Toledo Board of Education and The Toledo Federation of Teachers |url=https://www.tps.org/images/12918TEACHERFINALWITHINDEX.pdf |website=Toledo Public Schools |access-date=24 July 2019}} Other district staff are part of the Toledo Association of Administrative Personnel and The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME).
Dr. Romules Durant became the district's superintendent on August 1, 2013.[http://www.tps.org/superintendent/superintendent.html Toledo Public Schools Superintendent]
School uniforms
Students are allowed to wear any solid colored polo and certain types of pants. High school as of 2016-2017 school year and on are allowed to wear anything.{{cite web|url=http://www.tps.org/content/view/14/42/|title=Welcome to Toledo Public Schools - Toledo, OH - Career Technology|access-date=2008-09-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081225175552/http://www.tps.org/content/view/14/42/|archive-date=2008-12-25|url-status=dead}}http://www.tps.org/images/stories/parents/uniform-dress%20code%20element%20and%20middle%20school%20-%20_2008-09_%20%20%85.pdf{{Dead link|date=July 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=no }}http://www.tps.org/images/stories/parents/uniform-high%20school%20dress%20code%20-%20_2008-2009_%20-%20rev%205-29-08%85.pdf{{Dead link|date=July 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=no }}
Schools
=Grades 9-12=
- Bowsher High School
- Rogers High School
- Scott High School
- Start High School
- Toledo Early College
- Toledo Technology Academy
- Waite High School
- Woodward High School
Grades 7-12
- Jones Leadership Academy of Business
Former/Closed High Schools
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- Central (Toledo) High School (1853-1938)
- DeVilbiss High School (1931-1991)
- Jefferson Center for Vocational Rehabilitation (1970-2000)
- Libbey High School (1923-2010)
- Macomber High School (1938-1991)
- Nexus Academy (-2017)
- Whitney High School (1939-1991)
- Spencer-Sharples High School (part of the district from 1967-1980){{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=n30UAAAAIBAJ&sjid=LQMEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6186,7678585&dq=spencer%20school&hl=en|title=Toledo Blade - Google News Archive Search}}
=Grades K-8 =
- Beverly Elementary School
- Byrnedale Elementary School
- Deveaux Elementary School
- East Broadway Elementary School
- Jones Elementary School
- Leverette Elementary School
- Mc Tigue Elementary School
- Robinson Elementary School
Pre-Schools K-8 some in 2011-2012 will not be open
- Arlington Elementary School
- Beverly Elementary School
- Birmingham Elementary School
- Burroughs Elementary School
- Chase Elementary School
- Crossgates Elementary School (Preschool Only)
- East Side Central Elementary School (Closed)
- Edgewater Elementary School
- Ella P. Stewart Academy for Girls
- Elmhurst Elementary School
- Fulton Elementary School (Closed, 1894-2010){{Cite web|url=https://www.toledoblade.com/local/2009/06/04/Fulton-School-closing-for-good/stories/200906040019|title=Fulton School closing for good|website=Toledo Blade|language=en|access-date=2020-02-01}}
- Garfield Elementary School
- Glendale-Feilbach Elementary School
- Glenwood Elementary School
- Harvard Elementary School
- Hawkins Elementary School
- Keyser Elementary School
- Lagrange Elementary School (Closed)
- Lincoln Academy for Boys (Closed)
- Longfellow Elementary School
- Marshall Elementary School
- Martin Luther King for boys
- McKinley Elementary School
- Nathan Hale Elementary School (Closed)
- Navarre Elementary School
- Oakdale Elementary School
- Old Orchard Elementary School
- Pickett Elementary School
- Raymer Elementary School
- Reynolds Elementary School
- Riverside Elementary School
- Rosa Parks Elementary School
- Sherman Elementary School
- Walbridge Elementary School
- Westfield Elementary School
- Whittier Elementary School
=Grades K-8=
- Grove Patterson Academy
- Larchmont K-7 (adding a grade each year) (K-8 in 2011-2012)
- Old West End Academy
- Ottawa River
History of Toledo Public Schools
(collected from the Woodward Technical High School yearbook 1927-28){{cite web|url=http://www.classmates.com/yearbooks/Woodward-High-School/7201?page=12|title=1928 Woodward High School Yearbook}}
In 1853, the first Toledo high school was built on the block surrounded by Adams, Madison, Michigan, and 10th streets (currently occupied by the Toledo-Lucas County Public Library). The building was finished in 1857 and the first class graduated from Central High School in 1858.
In 1872, Jesup W. Scott selected a body of trustees to establish a “University of Arts and Trades” for the city of Toledo. A donation of $15,000 by trustee William H. Raymond in 1873, followed by a donation of $50,000 by Scott’s family following his death on January 22, 1874 helped set up a school of design in the original high school by January 1875.
Unable to carry out the wishes of donors, the trustees tendered the property to the city of Toledo in January 1884. The Scott Manual Training School was opened and had the distinction of being one of the first such schools to offer courses in Domestic Science. The building was destroyed by a fire in March 1885, but was rebuilt as a much larger structure in 1886 with sixty-one rooms and an auditorium that was larger than the original building.
Until 1913, this was the city’s only high school building except for a few years where the first two years of high school were offered at East Side Central. Students were eventually transferred over to Jesup W. Scott High School in 1913 and Morrison R. Waite High School (named for Justice Morrison Waite) in 1914 when these schools were opened.
In January 1912 the Elementary Industrial School was established within the Central building with an emphasis on mechanical drawing and woodwork. When the remaining high school students left for Waite, the industrial school sought a new name. The new school was named Woodward Junior High School for Calvin M. Woodward, an advocate of manual training. When the school added four-year classes, it became Woodward Technical High School.
With four high schools established by 1923 (Scott in the west end, Waite in the east side, Woodward Tech near the north, and Central Catholic near downtown), a suitable high school was necessary for the south end. Edward Drummond Libbey High School was built and named for the Libbey Glass founder and Toledo Art Museum creator who gave money for the school’s property on Western Avenue.
In 1927, Vocational High School was established in the Woodward Tech building as well.http://www.classmates.com/yearbooks/Macomber-Vocational-High-School/54317?page=14 1936-37 Vocational HS yearbook Woodward Tech would move into a new building on Streicher Street in 1928 and become Calvin M. Woodward High School. Vocational High School remained in the old building until 1938 when it moved into a new location on Monroe Street and became Irving E. Macomber Vocational High School.http://www.classmates.com/yearbooks/Macomber-Vocational-High-School/75027?page=8 1937-38 Vocational HS yearbook
In 1931, Thomas A. DeVilbiss High School was also built in the quickly-expanding west end and named for a local industrialist.http://www.classmates.com/yearbooks/DeVilbiss-High-School/52992?page=10 1932-33 DeVilbiss HS yearbook Harriet Whitney Vocational High School was also established in 1939 as a girls’ trade school, and it would eventually become joint-operational with Macomber in 1959.{{cite web | last = Hughes| first = Clyde| title = Heat problems cause TPS to move classes from Whitney to DeVilbiss| publisher = Toledo Blade | date = November 19, 2003| url = http://www.toledoblade.com/Education/2003/11/19/Heat-problems-cause-TPS-to-move-classes-from-Whitney-to-DeVilbiss.html| access-date = January 26, 2013}}
In April 1937, Woodward High School displayed a Tesla Coil formerly owned by Nikola Tesla to the public, which they had acquired for educational purposes.{{cite web |title=Tesla Coil At Woodward |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=b5tXAAAAIBAJ&sjid=BUUNAAAAIBAJ&pg=777%2C4853075 |publisher=The Toledo News-Bee |date=April 20, 1937| access-date=November 12, 2019}}
As Toledo continued to grow, so did its school district. Two more high schools were opened in 1962: E.L. Bowsher High School was named for a former TPS superintendent to ease crowding at Libbey, and Roy C. Start High School was named for a former Toledo mayor in order to ease crowding at DeVilbiss.{{cite web | last = Spencer| first = Mary Jane| title = Rival to the finest prep schools| publisher = Toledo Blade | date = June 9, 1991| url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=kNQpAAAAIBAJ&sjid=JQMEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6746,2465911&dq=macomber+home+game&hl=en| access-date = January 27, 2013}} When Toledo fully annexed Adams Township in 1964, TPS also acquired Robert S. Rogers High School into its system in 1966.{{cite web | title = Adams District Welcomed By School Board| publisher = Toledo Blade | date = September 2, 1966| url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=m8VOAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ggEEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6555,4678667&dq=adams+school+board+toledo&hl=en| access-date = January 27, 2013}} In January 1968, the Ohio General Assembly allowed TPS to annex Spencer-Sharples School District despite it not being geographically connected to the rest of the district. In 1970, the Jefferson Center was set up in the old downtown post office as an alternative high school for students with behavioral issues.{{cite web | last = Ryan | first = Carl | title = Low Marks For Jefferson Center
| publisher = Toledo Blade | date = January 8, 1988| url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=tXsUAAAAIBAJ&sjid=8QIEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4645,4006434&dq=jefferson+center&hl=en| access-date = January 27, 2013}}
Shortly after its great rise, enrollment numbers began to drop across the district as Toledo’s population started to fall. Spencer-Sharples High School was closed in 1980.{{cite web | title = Spencer-Sharples Seeking Change In State School Law| publisher = Toledo Blade | date = August 7, 1980 | url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=FQwVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=lAIEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6989,6545080&dq=spencer+school&hl=en| access-date = January 27, 2013}} Macomber and the Jefferson Center were threatened with closure in 1989,{{cite web | last = Lane| first = Tahree| title = School board gives reprieve to Macomber
| publisher = Toledo Blade | date = April 26, 1989 | url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=PVkaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=TA4EAAAAIBAJ&pg=4810,3720820&dq=macomber+high+school&hl=en| access-date = January 27, 2013}} but it wasn’t until a levy failed during the 1990-91 school year when DeVilbiss and Macomber high schools were closed.{{cite web | last = Krauth| first = Laurie| title = Class will be out forever for DeVilbiss, Macomber| publisher = Toledo Blade | date = January 12, 1991| url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=DhAVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=FAMEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4394,2911856&dq=close+macomber+devilbiss&hl=en| access-date = January 27, 2013}} Many of Macomber’s trade classes were sent to other high schools{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=WVpPAAAAIBAJ&sjid=CgMEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6906,7945431&dq=macomber%20vocational%20high%20school%20toledo&hl=en|title=Toledo Blade - Google News Archive Search}} while the Toledo Technology Academy was opened in DeVilbiss. The Jefferson Center was shut down in 2000,{{cite web | title = 2 schools, 67 teachers axed by Toledo board | publisher = Toledo Blade | date = May 11, 2000| url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=bIYUAAAAIBAJ&sjid=5AMEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4790,3185688&dq=jefferson+center&hl=en| access-date = January 27, 2013}} and Libbey was also closed in 2010.{{cite web | last = Kirkpatrick| first = Christopher D.| title = Libbey High to be closed to save money, board rules in 3-2 vote | publisher = Toledo Blade | date = May 26, 2010 | url = http://toledoblade.com/article/20100526/NEWS04/5260371 | access-date = January 27, 2013}}
TPS was able to rebuild, renovate, and reorganize many of its school buildings in the early years of the 21st century with help from the State of Ohio. Many neighborhood grade schools were lost, but the school communities were given state-of-the-art facilities.
References
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External links
- [http://www.tps.org District Website]
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