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in central
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, about northeast of downtown Columbus, Ohio. The school district covers an area of , all (except for a small amount in Licking County) located in the northeast corner of
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. The district features eight buildings serving grades K-12 (including New Albany High School) all on one centrally-located campus. The schools are connected by tree-lined walkways, and are surrounded by an nature preserve. Most of the district is located in New Albany, with the rest in unincorporated Plain Township and the city of Columbus. New Albany-Plain Local is the only school district in Ohio in which every school is designated a National Blue Ribbon School of Excellence by the
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. All of the district's schools have been accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools. The average daily enrollment in the New Albany-Plain Local School District in the 2008-2009 school year was 3,932. The racial makeup of the students in the district was 78.2%
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(non-Hispanic), 9.7% Asian or Pacific Islander, 6.3%
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(non-Hispanic), 1.7%
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, and 3.9%
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. 100% of district teachers had completed at least a
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, and 71.2% had completed at least a
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. The School Board President is Laura Kohler. The graduation rate for the class of 2008 was 98.3%.


History

In the 1820s in Plain Township, schooling had been taught in log cabins. In 1821, a frame school building was built on Central College Road; the teacher was Jacob Smith. In 1874, a new brick school was built in the Village. In 1956, a new elementary school across from the now Intermediate Elementary (now known as "the annex") was built. In 1955 the Ohio General Assembly eliminated the requirement that cities and school districts have common borders. From the 1950s through the 1970s the City of Columbus aggressively annexed land, causing concern for local school districts. In 1980 the suburban school districts together persuaded the Ohio General Assembly to place a two-year moratorium on all big-city school district transfers. Concerned legislators asked school officials to work out a solution to the growing "turf war" over the changing school district boundaries. In 1982, when little progress was made toward arriving at an agreeable solution, the General Assembly extended the moratorium for another two years, but stated they would not renew it again in 1986. Once again, the districts were directed to develop permanent boundary and annexation agreements. State Representative Michael Stiniano (Columbus) and other community and education leaders convened a series of negotiations with the Franklin County school district officials in 1986. These officials eventually reached an agreement, the “Joint Agreement Among and Between the Boards of Education of Certain School Districts in Franklin County, Ohio”, nicknamed “Win-Win”. The agreement established mechanisms to predict school district boundaries among the twelve member districts. It set procedures for Columbus to acquire new territory in the future, and established revenue sharing between Columbus City Schools and the suburban districts. The success of the agreement's adoption resulted in the Ohio General Assembly’s approval, and Governor Celeste’s signing of the agreement. The current brick schools were built in the late 1990s and 2000s. The Intermediate Elementary opened in 1999 and replaced two former elementary buildings, one of which was demolished and one used to be leased by the Columbus Jewish Day School. Now the Elementary school is slowly running out of teaching space therefore is slowly moving 2-4 5th grade classes every year into the annex. New Albany Middle School opened in August 2002. Prior to that, middle school classes were held in New Albany High School. The Primary(Referred to as K-1) Elementary opened in August 2003. Kindergarten and first grade were moved to that building and the Intermediate( Referred to as the 2-5 building) Elementary became for grades 2-5 only. The current New Albany High School was built in 1996. The school was expanded in 2002 to include an additional academic wing with offices, a new high school football stadium and additional locker rooms. Those improvements were completed in 2004.


Notable graduates

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, IndyCar driver and son of
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See also

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New Albany, Ohio New Albany is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio, located northeast of the state capital of Columbus. Most of the city is located in Franklin County and a small portion extends into adjacent Licking County. New Albany had a population of 10,825 ...
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New Albany High School (Ohio) New Albany High School is a public high school located in New Albany, Ohio as part of the New Albany-Plain Local School District. New Albany is a four-year comprehensive high school accredited by the Ohio Department of Education. It has been nati ...
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Plain Township, Franklin County, Ohio Plain Township is one of the seventeen townships of Franklin County, Ohio, United States. As of the 2020 census the population was 12,761. Geography Located in the northeastern corner of the county, it consists of a large section in the nort ...


References

{{reflist School districts in Ohio Education in Franklin County, Ohio