whitaker Elementary
School Hours: 9 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. phone: 513-728-3737
Principal: Grant Anderson, ganderson@finneytown.org
Assistant Principal: Marlo Thigpen, mthigpen@finneytown.org
School Secretary: Penney Meddford
School Counselor: Britany Utley, butley@finneytown.org
Finneytown Local Schools Promotes Long-time Elementary Teacher to Teaching and Learning Coordinator
For 23 years, Troy Edie has been an educator in the Finneytown Local School District. This summer, he was promoted into the position of Teaching and Learning Coordinator for the district, a role he’s been preparing for his whole career. As a graduate of The Ohio State University with both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Elementary Education, Edie has been teaching in Finneytown his entire career since being hired to teach 2nd grade in 1996. Since then he has
Finneytown Forum Meeting 6/25
Join us for a Finneytown Forum and Special Board of Education meeting on new buildings! Tuesday, June 25th at 6:30 pm in the Performing Arts Center, 8916 Fontainebleau Terrace We will be updating on the flurry of activity happening at Finneytown Local Schools, and what a bond levy will mean for you and your families. Learn more about the special opportunity that we have available to us and how the state is going to pay 60% of the base cost
Finneytown Local Schools to Place Bond Levy on November Ballot
Watch the video On Sunday, June 9, 2019, Finneytown Local Schools Board of Education unanimously voted to move forward in the application process with Ohio Facilities Construction Commission and the Expedited Local Partnership Program that would assist the district in designing and building two new school buildings. The board voted this evening, Monday, June 17, 2019, to place a bond levy on the November 2019 ballot that would supply the money for 40% of the cost to construct the schools.
COSI on Wheels Takes Learning at Whitaker Elementary to a New Level
It’s Simply Chemistry! The was the COSI (Center of Science and Industry) on Wheels Outreach Program that students at Whitaker Elementary School experienced in May. The COSI educator presented the Chemistry Program to students in grades 2-5. Students then had the opportunity to have some hands-on learning as they visited the stations that made slime, experimented with Ph levels using different chemicals, compared the textures of everyday household chemicals under microscopes, experienced first-hand the differences when you have physical and