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Chinese and American Summer Camp

The Oak Hills Local School District will be partnering with two schools in Liuzhou, China to bring 25-40 Chinese students who will be attending the camp. Those Oak Hills students attending the Chinese and American Youth Day Camp will be given first consideration for hosting a Chinese student.

The camp runs: July 16-27 Rapid Run Middle School Grades 6-11 $199 Registration Fee For more information, contact the main office at your child's school

Click here for registration form and housing packet.

Camp Oak Hills 2012

On July 31, 2012 Oak Hills High School is hosting their annual Camp Oak Hills, Freshman Frenzy!

Many incoming freshman are apprehensive about beginning a new school and are intimidated by the buildint’s size. Freshman Frenzy allows all incoming freshman to visit the high school and participate in a camp where they will learn leadership skills, acquaint themselves with the building, and meet upper classmen who will guide them through a rewarding experience. This event is open to all incoming ninth graders.

“It’s a time for incoming Oak Hills Freshman to join the Oak Hills Frenzy,” said Ken Hauck, Assistant Principal. Come and see what all the buzz is about at Camp Oak Hills 2012.

For more information please call 513-922-2300.

A Decade of Excellence!

banner The Ohio Report Card data for the 2010-2011 school year is in, and Oak Hills Local School District is ranked Excellent.
The report card is an annual measure of schools' and districts' academic success.

The state department of education combines students' scores on standardized achievement tests with other factors, such as graduation rate and attendance, to assess public schools and districts.

There are six academic ratings: Excellent with Distinction, Excellent, Effective, Continuous Improvement, Academic Watch and Academic Emergency. Oak Hills Local School District maintained the Excellent rating it received the previous year.

"We are very pleased with the overall performance of our students and happy to have once again earned a rating of Excellent," said Oak Hills Superintendent Todd Yohey. He said 2011 represents the 10th straight year Oak Hills earned the Excellent rating or higher. "We are celebrating a decade of Excellence," he said. Yohey said the district is pleased it met all report card indicators and had two school buildings – Delshire Elementary and Dulles Elementary – rated Excellent with Distinction. He said the district will once again aim for an Excellent or higher rating this school year. "We plan to continue our focus on high student achievement and quality instruction with emphasis on career and college readiness with global competency," he said.

How our schools ranked:
Bridgetown Middle School, C.O. Harrison Elementary School, Delhi Middle School, Oakdale Elementary School, Oak Hills High School, Rapid Run Middle School and Springmyer Elementary School all earned an Excellent rating. Delshire Elementary School and J.F. Dulles Elementary School both earned the Excellent with Distinction rating.

Oak Hills awarded $600,000 Race to the Top Innovation Grant

The Oak Hills Local School District will use a $600,000 Race to the Top Innovation Grant to encourage higher level thinking skills and real-life global connections at Oak Hills High School.

The district will join the Asia Society's International Studies School Network (ISSN) Innovative Program with funding from the grant. ISSN is a national network of public schools that are achieving success in attaining their core mission: to develop college-ready, globally competent high school graduates. It has a strong alignment with Oak Hills High School's mission, said Todd Yohey, Superintendent of Schools – a key factor in the district's decision to apply.

"The curriculum, professional development, framework and tools associated with ISSN represent a continuation of the journey and the profound work that our district and Oak Hills High School started two to three years ago," Yohey said. "Our administrative and teacher leaders see this as a vehicle for deeply embedding skills, content and values associated with global competence in our curriculum."

Yohey said membership in ISSN provides a means to expand, strengthen and improve the International Studies Program, as well as the three other programs of study offered at Oak Hills – STEM, Creative and Performing Arts, and Integrated Studies. This customized learning process was started in the 2010-2011 school year.

The Academic Improvement Model for the high school is building around a support system designed to strengthen student skills in four areas of college readiness:

Contextual skills, and awareness or college knowledge: how to apply to colleges, the application process, financial understanding.
Key content: Mastery of important content in English, science, math, social studies, and fine arts.
Key cognitive strategies: Critical thinking skills, analysis, evaluation, synthesis, problem solving skills.
Academic behaviors: Writing and study skills, and time management.

Opportunities are also available to students across all schools and academic disciplines in world languages and technology and e-learning access. Teachers across the district collaborate and participate in professional development in and out of the school day. The goal is to construct a pipeline of K-12 learning that leads to college and career readiness for all students.

"For our students to succeed they must be productive workers and informed citizens," Yohey said. "Implementing this innovative program and joining Asia Society's ISSN will enable us to build a strong system of learning that results in all of our students graduating with the necessary knowledge, abilities and opportunities to thrive in a global society."