Ohio Grade School

OHIO — The Ohio Grade School Board took action on the following items at its meeting Jan. 17:

• Heard the current enrollment for the grade school is 79.

• Approved to supply transportation and ticket fee for the seventh-/eighth-grade Great America trip for students passing the random drug screens.

• Heard the district must provide breakfast next year due to its current poverty rate of 44.59 percent.

• Heard the white activity bus has been delivered.

• Discussed a band rental fee for next year.

• Heard Superintendent Sharon Sweger say she was looking into a parent training program that would be paid for through pre-school funding.

• Heard Principal Mark Downey say the girls basketball team has been showing a lot of improvement.

• Heard the honor roll breakfast sponsored by the PTO was held Jan. 6.

• Heard fifth grade D.A.R.E. graduation was held Jan. 10 with Sheriff John Thompson and Deputy Dan Smith.

• Heard student teacher Diane Brandau has started working in the special education and behavior disorder classrooms.

The next regularly scheduled meeting will be held at 7 p.m. Feb. 21 in the school library.