02.16 Hornet Headlines |

We are coming down the home stretch for our redistricting project and will soon have a finalized plan to share. This coming Tuesday, February 20, our Board of Education will vote at their regular February meeting to adopt the redistricting plan created for our elementary schools. These new boundaries will take effect at the start of the 2024-2025 school year in August.

As a reminder, these new boundaries only impact which elementary school a student attends next school year. All of our families will still be Licking Heights families and will be a part of our school district next year. Additionally, all students who will attend a different school next year as a result of redistricting will stay at their current school for the remainder of the 2023-2024 school year.

You can expect the following communications from our District Office team next week about redistricting:

• Wed., Feb. 21: An email announcement of the new elementary school boundaries will be sent to all district families.

• We will also launch an official Redistricting Hub directly on our District Website with information about 2024-25 boundaries and our Boundary Locator tool.

• The week of Mon., Feb. 26 to Fri., March 1: Our quarterly hard copy newsletter featuring our new elementary boundary map for 2024-25, along with additional redistricting information, will be in mailboxes across our district.

In the meantime, click the yellow button below to view our official Redistricting Hub from Cooperative Strategies. All information presented in the redistricting process so far is available on this website.

Please know that your feedback and insights were vital throughout this project and formed the foundation of our plans for 2024-2025. Our team is hard at work to make all students feel welcome and supported in the elementary schools next year and during the transitional period.

Thank you to everyone who participated in our redistricting community meeting Feb. 1, responded to our redistricting surveys in December and February, and reached out to our District Office team to share their thoughts. Your partnership and participation is deeply appreciated by our team.

Sincerely,

Dr. Kevin S. Miller, Superintendent

The Johnstown-Monroe Education & Workforce Community Forum, scheduled for 6 p.m. on Feb. 26, 2024, provides an opportunity to bring together tomorrow’s employers and their prospective future workforce. Licking Heights Schools sponsored a similar event last spring. This event will focus on current and emerging career skills required to meet the needs of a quickly changing occupational terrain already emerging within our communities.

Invited employers include:

• Amgen
• Amazon Web Services
• Bechtel
• C-TEC
• COTC
• Intel
• Licking Memorial Health Systems
• Meta
• Turner Construction Company

The event will take place at the Johnstown Monroe Performing Arts Center, 401 S. Oregon Street, Johnstown, OH.

Per the Ohio Revised Code, every public school district in Ohio is required to provide free feminine products to students who may need them during the school day. We have always provided products to students at Licking Heights, but previously these products were stored and given out through building health aides.

The district has received grant funds to purchase dispensers for both pads and tampons, and dispensers will be placed in each clinic and a few universal spaces (main office hallways, counseling offices hallways, cafeteria restrooms, etc.) around Central Intermediate, the middle school, and the high school building to ensure that young ladies have access to products when needed.

Please be advised that there is a limited supply of products, and many students are in need of these essential resources. Kindly take only what you need when you need it instead of using this as a substitute for bringing products yourself.

Our employee of the month is transportation assistant Linda Valentine. We thank Linda for her constant support of our students and staff here at Transportation. Megan Herren has rejoined us as a bus driver, and Mike Perkins recently obtained his CDL. He can now start driving on student routes. Congratulations and welcome!

Have a business you'd like to promote? Want to support a student in the performing arts department? Our Spring musical, The Wedding Singer, is coming up on March 14, 15, and 16 and we need your help fundraising for the Theatre program. Purchase a business ad or happy ad for a performer or crew member using the form below. If you have questions, please contact Johanna Whetstone at johanna.whetstone@lhschools.org. See you at the show!

Choose if you want your brick purchase to benefit the PTO, Athletic Boosters, or Music Boosters.

February marks Dental Health Month, and South Health Aide Mrs. Cronin is stepping up her creativity. To make dental health more exciting and less scary for students, she created the Lost Tooth Club for students who had a recent Tooth Fairy visit. Students who have lost a tooth get to stick a paper tooth with their name on it up on the Health Clinic bulletin board.

Mrs. Fox's third-grade students at West turned math into a colorful feast. Using M&M's, Play-Doh, Legos, and markers, they transformed hands-on fun into fractions magic. Learning made deliciously creative.

North students earned a dance party in the gym featuring videos from the students' favorite YouTuber, Danny Go! Dances included Freeze Dance, Monkey Business, Dinosaur Dance, Exercise, and the Wiggle Dance.

North students are not the only ones dancing the day away. Central Intermediate students had a neon dance party for their January incentive. Students decorated with glow sticks and glow-in-the-dark paint and danced under the black lights all throughout the day. Keep up the great work, Hornets.

Students in the middle school Chinese program performed for their high school peers and fellow Chinese language students from Reynoldsburg during a Lunar New Year celebration on Feb. 12.

The HS Quiz Bowl team is currently 3rd in their league with a solid chance to qualify for regionals! To prepare for increasing competition, the students practiced their skills against high school teachers Kele Waaland, Tyler Hennen, Kerry Nixon, and Nate Clark.

Don’t miss out on Spring Ball! Sign ups for Spring Baseball for ages 5 to 12 and softball for ages 5 to 14 is ending Feb. 23. Never played before? We have had first-time players in every age group. Financial assistance is also available to cover registration dues. Sign up by clicking the button below.

The Licking Heights Youth Sports League (LHYSL) is excited to partner with Southwest Licking Youth Football and the Pataskala YMCA for a new, fun, and competitive season of Flag Football! You can find league details and registration by clicking the button below. We welcome boys and girls, grades kindergarten through sixth grade, to join us on the football field. Let’s go Hornets!

From now until February 24, the LHMS Girls Basketball team is hosting a delicious fundraiser with Krispy Kreme Doughnuts. Purchase your dozens online using the link below and then swing by your nearest Krispy Kreme store to redeem them using your special code.

The River Round Up Poster Contest is open to all students living in and/or attending school in Licking County. The winning poster artwork will be used as the primary electronic marketing images for the 2024 River Round Up event.

$100 is awarded to the student artists of the winning posters (one from each of the three categories—Elementary, Middle/Intermediate, and High School) and $500 to the student’s school for advancing science and art programming.

• All February - Black History Month
• Feb. 16 - NO SCHOOL
• Feb. 19 - NO SCHOOL: President's Day
• Feb. 20 - Regular School Board Meeting
• March 1 and 2 - Diaspora 2024
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• Click here to see the latest fliers on Peachjar

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