CHS Dance Instructor Tenille Redmond has announced the 5th Annual CHS Dance Program Summer Dance Camp – DANCE PRIDE! will be held June 11th – June 15th from 9:00 am – 4:00 pm in the CHS Dance Studio for students ages 6-14. Details can be found in the Summer Dance Camp Registration Read More

The Centerville City Schools Summer Program gives students the opportunity to review skills or explore new subject areas during the summer months. Students currently enrolled in grades K through 8 are eligible to attend summer school. Classes will be held at Tower Heights Middle School and satellite areas in the Centerville district. There is one session offered for the summer program—June 18 to July 6, 2012. Classes will meet for two hours per day unless otherwise marked. Class sessions meet from 8:00 to 10:00 A.M. or 10:15 A.M. to 12:15 P.M. (Exceptions are noted in the brochure.) Class size is limited to 18 students per instructor. Read More

Coordinator of Gifted Services Karen Bryan invited 13 middle school students to the March 26 Board of Education meeting to be recognized because their high scores on the Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test (PSAT) placed them in the 98th percentile nationally with other middle/junior high school students taking the test. Describing the young scholars as “uncommon,” Bryan commented that last October the District had 150 7th and 8th graders who took the PSAT along with some 60,000 other students from around the nation, including 1,500 in Ohio. What is uncommon “is that 13 of our students scored in the top 98th percentile when compared to the group of students 8th grade and below.” According to Bryan, the PSAT is used as the National Merit Qualifying test for 11th graders competing for college scholarships. Each of the 13 middle school students had a combined score of 170 or above on three subtests, Writing, Math and Reading, with a maximum of 80 points on any one test. Congratulations to these very bright and successful young people. Front row, l-r: Madeline Otto, 8th – Watts; Samantha Gaeke, 8th – Magsig; Amol Gandhi, 8th – Magsig; Roshni Venkatesh, 8th – Watts; and Sophia Rudolph, 8th – TH. Back row, l-r: John Xiang, 8th – Watts; Spencer "Ty" Smith, 8th – TH; Susan Goodridge, 8th – Watts; Julia Romie, 7th – Watts; Patrick Smith, 8th – Magsig; and Karan Verma, 7th – Magsig. Not pictured: Sarah Siddiqui, 8th – Watts; and Pamela Zhang, 8th – Watts. Read More

U.S. Poet Laureate, J. Patrick Lewis, an author of more than 75 children’s books and a resident of Westerville, Ohio, will visit two Centerville elementary schools during the week of April 9 to help celebrate April as National Poetry Month. Mr. Lewis, winner of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) 2011 Excellence in Children's Poetry Award, will be at Primary Village South on Wednesday, April 11, and at Stingley on Thursday, April 12.  The District, along with the schools’ PTO groups, has been working collaboratively with the Washington-Centerville Public Library to bring Mr. Lewis to the community. He will speak at the library on Spring Valley Road from 7-8 pm on the evening of April 12, according to Amy Allgeier, Youth Services Specialist for the library. Directly following the presentation, the library will host a book sale and book signing, along with some refreshments. Read More

Centerville Noon Optimist President Kelly Eggers explaining her service club’s long tradition of making an annual donation to each school library in the community. The NOC support “includes a $200 donation to each of the 12 Centerville public school libraries as well as the libraries at Incarnation School, Miami Valley School, and Spring Valley Academy, commented Eggers.” Pictured with the NOC President are (l-r) Superintendent Dr. Tom Henderson, Director of Curriculum and Instruction Deb Crump, Elementary IMC Specialist Emily Seppa, and Secondary IMC Specialist Cathy Horn. Read More