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Boardman middle schools to be renamed
BOARDMAN
Boardman Center and Glenwood middle schools will get new names next school year due to a building realignment that will put all fifth- and sixth-grade students at Center and all seventh- and eighth-grade students at Glenwood.
The schools will be named Boardman Center Intermediate School and Boardman Glenwood Junior High, Superintendent Frank Lazzeri informed the school board at a meeting this week.
Currently, both buildings house all four grade levels. The realignment will more evenly distribute the student populations in each building.
In other business, the school board approved:
Tenure for three Boardman High School teachers who have been with the district for three years: science teacher Heather Mercer; social studies teacher Brittany Zetts; and resource room teacher Megan Zimmers.
Purchase of two new vans, in accordance with state competitive bidding, at a cost of $25,314.50 each. They will replace two older vehicles.
An agreement with the Boardman Booster Club that will allow the organization to proceed with a project to build a band shell at the high school stadium. Construction was made possible by a $150,000 donation by township residents Bill and Karen Veri.
School district officials also recognized numerous students for recent achievements, including Stadium Drive fourth-grade students who participated in the Team Approach to Problem Solving competition sponsored by the Eastern Ohio Council of Teachers of Mathematics; Stadium Drive students and staff who help raise money for St. Jude Children’s Hospital; and West Boulevard’s winners of an Earth Day contest.
School officials personally recognized members of the 2015-16 high school Quiz Bowl team; senior wrestler Mario Graziani; and Glenwood Middle School eighth-grade student Jakob Peters for his participation in the 2016 Ohio State Geography Bee April 1 in Columbus, which involved 100 students from around the state. Jakob made it through six of eight rounds, falling one correct answer short of participating in the tiebreaker round.
“He makes me proud that when people ask what I do, I say I’m a teacher at Boardman,” teacher Vincent Carnevale said of Jakob.