Reynoldsburg City Schools

Reynoldsburg parents, staff, students and community members clearly want to hang on to our traditional Raider identity, but are interested in innovative programming and school design possibilities, according to findings of the recent Reynoldsburg Reach initiative.

The final Reynoldsburg Reach Public Input Summary Report was submitted to Superintendent Stephen D. Dackin this week by ACP Visioning + Planning, a Columbus-based consulting firm that specializes in soliciting community input on public planning and development.  The firm was hired by the district to guide its initiative, which included 30 meetings in 69 days; architecture firm Moody Nolan, Inc., will pay for it.

The 750 participants who attended Reynoldsburg Reach meetings expressed:

• Strong community values, as well as a desire to maintain and strengthen Reynoldsburg's neighborhoods and community identity.
• A clear preference for a single high school identity, rather than two separate schools. 
• A desire for academic choices, especially at the high school level.  Clear majorities would send their children to appropriate schools of choice/magnet schools.
• Concerns that elitism, competition with neighborhood schools and potential lottery systems could taint schools of choice or magnet schools.
• No clear preference for any one of the three high school options as presented, although two separate, comprehensive high schools was least favored by more than half of participants.
• A desire to include middle/junior high offerings if schools of choice were to be developed.

More than 13,000 community comments were recorded as part of the Reynoldsburg Reach initiative and all are included in the report's appendixes.  The report and its appendixes are published in PDF format below:

>  Reynoldsburg Reach Input Summary Report

>  Appendix A-C: High School Options SWOT

>  Appendix D-E: Elementary Options SWOT

>  Appendix F: Exit Questionnaire

>  Appendix G-H: Publicity Materials, FAQ

>  Superintendent's Recommendations