Colerain High School - Cardinal Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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Superintendent and board face problems of a growing school district To keep pace with the grow- ing population, the Northwest Local Board of Education has inih tiated an ambitious huiltiing pro- gram. In recent years the board has supervised the building of four new elementary schools and one new junior high. Plans are being made for still another ele- mentary building. The new high school, to open to 1500 students in September of 1964-, will have to be expanded in 1966. The guiding power of the school district, the board employs 250 teachers and fifteen administra- tors, furnishes books and supplies, and provides transportation for the pupils of the districEs eight schools. BOARD OF EDUCATION: E. Moeller, President; R. Koehler, C. Staley, J. Feldmann, R. Hensley.

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:L0ur greatest problemf states Mr, Edmond Hammond, 4c Superintendent, is keaping up with increasing enrollment? Since ML Hammond has been at Coler- ain, the school system has gone through a period of extreme growth. In 1952, the year Mr. Hammond became principal of Colerain High School? the entire school district had only a little over one thousand students. Three years ago when Colerain and Monfort Heights consolidated to form Northwest Local School Dis- trict, the total enrollment had ex- ploded to 6,000. Now, with 7,680 students, Northwest District has the second largest student popula- tion of any local district in Ohio

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Completing his second year as principal at Colerain High School, Mr. Ross Fleming led the school through a stage of develop- ment that demanded dedication and enthusiastic leadership. This was the transition period, a change from small school intimacy to large school sophistication. Guid- ing and channeling this Change, Mr. Fleming took long strides to- warcl molding a more progressive high school.