The West Clermont Local School District (WCLSD) is a public school district in Clermont County, Ohio, United States. It covers a 54-square-mile (140 km2) area on the east side of the Cincinnati, Ohio metropolitan area, centered on the I-275 loop. The district serves the village of Amelia and all of Union Township, as well as portions of Batavia, Monroe, Ohio and Pierce Townships.
The West Clermont Local School District is the 23rd largest of Ohio's 610 school districts, with 9000 students, grades Pre-K-12, with 600 certified staff members and 260 support personnel. The district has eight elementary schools, two middle schools, and two high schools.
In 2002, the WCLSD received a $500,000 grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to help it restructure its high schools into ten smaller schools.
Read more about West Clermont Local School District: High Schools, Middle Schools, Elementary Schools
Famous quotes containing the words west, local, school and/or district:
“Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is.”
—Mae West (1892–1980)
“Resorts advertised for waitresses, specifying that they “must appear in short clothes or no engagement.” Below a Gospel Guide column headed, “Where our Local Divines Will Hang Out Tomorrow,” was an account of spirited gun play at the Bon Ton. In Jeff Winney’s California Concert Hall, patrons “bucked the tiger” under the watchful eye of Kitty Crawhurst, popular “lady” gambler.”
—Administration in the State of Colo, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)
“Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.”
—Rebecca West (1892–1983)