Student Services

 The Counselors’ Corner will be updated periodically to give students, parents and community members the newest information from Student Services. Please feel free to email and/or call any of us with questions, concerns, or comments using the information below:

Audra Deere, DBES: [email protected];  740-532-6898, ext. 5103 

The Counselor’s Corner

There are many options leading to many decisions for our students in the upcoming months. As parents and educators, we are striving to help our children make the best decisions possible so we can see their happiness come to fruition. Happiness is based on circumstances, like finding the college of your choice; earning good grades; making a decision on a career and finding success in that career. But finding true joy is a choice, not a circumstance. This is our wish for our young people: We hope they find true joy and happiness in the future.

The Ohio State Board of Education, which has eleven elected members and eight appointed members, oversees primary and secondary education in the State of Ohio and the  Ohio Department of Education.

The state is divided into eleven districts by combining three contiguous Ohio State Senate districts, each of which elects one representative. The governor of Ohio appoints the remaining eight members. All serve four year terms. The elected members' terms are staggered so that half of the board is elected in each even-numbered year. Vacancies in the elected membership are filled by appointment by the governor. The chairman of the Ohio House of Representatives Education Committee and his or her counterpart in the Ohio State Senate are ex officio members. The board employs a Superintendent of Public Instruction, who runs the Ohio Department of Education.

The State Board of Education does not have jurisdiction over the state's public colleges and universities, which are overseen by their individual boards of trustees and the Ohio Board of Regents.