Our very own senior, Jacob Adams, was interviewed live on Channel 2! February was Retinitis Pigmentosa Awareness month and he was selected for an interview. Jacob has Usher’s Syndrome, which is a genetic disorder that caused his profound deafness and the Retinitis Pigmentosa. RP is a degenerative eye disease that causes tunnel vision and night blindness.   To see the …

Baseball/softball games with two times are double-headers. All home games played at school fields, except for Stivers and Ponitz (Kettering Field, Island Park)   Coed Varsity Track (4/21) Stivers v Bellbrook HS — Away @ 4:30 pm (4/24) Dayton Relays @ Welcome Stadium, 4 pm (4/25) Thurgood Marshall, Stivers @ Eaton Invitational — Away @ 10 am   Boys Varsity …

Student and staff at Stivers have created hundreds of bowls for you to choose from, each one unique and artistically prepared. Each guest may choose a handmade ceramic bowl and fill it with soup, bread and dessert generously donated from local restaurants. Enjoy dinner, watch wheel-throwing demonstrations, take a studio tour and see our students’ award winning work from this …

April 2, 2015 Contact: Jill Moberley, Public Information Officer For Immediate Release DPS families have the opportunity to enroll their young children in FREE, high-quality preschool for the 2015-16 school year at one of two upcoming DPS Preschool Fairs that offer free physical and dental screenings. The events will take place 3 p.m. to 6 p.m., Thursday, April 9, at …

April 15, 2015 Contact: Jill Moberley, Public Information Officer For Immediate Release   Students bound for BPA nationals   The David H. Ponitz Career Technology Center’s Broadcast News team took second place in Ohio BPA (Business Professionals of America) competition. Lucien Wright, Nadia Bush, King Jalaw Walker, and Raymond Warden (teacher Deb Pitstick) will advance to national competition in Anaheim, …

I take no pleasure in writing this letter.   The Ohio Association of Public Schools Employees Local #627, bargaining agent for bus drivers, has officially notified the Dayton Board of Education of its intention to strike on April 21, 2015. It is my hope that a resolution to the current contract disagreement will be reached and a strike will not …

Due to situations outside of our control, Dayton Public Schools third-graders will take the OAA test on Monday, April 20. Please have your child at school on time. Buses will be running. All students need to get plenty of rest the night before and eat a healthy breakfast. We appreciate your partnering, responsible parenting, and flexibility. DPS Transportation Update for …

Baseball/softball games with two times are double-headers. All home games played at school fields, except for Stivers and Ponitz (Kettering Field, Island Park)   Coed Varsity Track (4/13) Thurgood Marshall @ West Carrollton Relays — Away @ 5 pm (4/14) Stivers v Tipp HS — Away @ 4:30 pm (4/17) Thurgood Marshall @ Miamisburg Invitational — Away @ 5 pm …

April 8, 2015 Contact: Jill Moberley, Public Information Officer For Immediate Release   Nearly 300 students from six DPS high schools will attend a series of after-school sessions this month, culminating with a daylong work shop on April 16, to help them achieve college-worthy scores on the ACT (American College Testing) readiness assessment.   Dayton Public Schools, working with MasteryPrep, …

Stivers students Kevin Buck, Gabriel Cheak, and Christopher Pacleb were among the fifty-three eighth graders from schools in Montgomery County chosen for the College Promise Program this year.    The goal of College Promise is to send students to Sinclair College for two or three years for free and then allow them to finish at a four-year school (Wright State, the …