Reductions Update and Future Events

Friday, February 28, 2025

The Avon Lake City Schools Board of Education and Administrative Team communicated with our school families last year that our intention was to share our final Reductions List prior to March 1st, 2025, and with this week’s correspondence, that list has been completed. Reduction options prompting more specific information are clickable below, and we encourage you to review this material.

• Over 20 positions were eliminated across Administration, Certified and Classified staff through retirement incentive, attrition and reduction in force.
  
  
• Increased Pay-to-Participate fees for student athletes at the HS and Learwood
• Please note that any student-athlete who participates in both a fall and winter sport will participate in a spring sport for free
  
  
• Increased fees for All Day Kindergarten and Preschool, rather than eliminating them as previously discussed
  
  
• Reduce busing to 1-mile radius (see Tentative Non-Eligible Zones on Transportation page)
  
  
• Increase building rental fees
  
  
• Eliminate non-emergency overtime
  
  
• Reduce elective course offerings
• Accomplished through changes in section offering and eliminating courses with low requests
  
  
• Reduce offered building supplementals and extra-curricular activities
  
  
• Eliminate teaming at Learwood
• Saving approximately $300,000
  
  
• Changing elementary gifted services model
• Saving approximately $125,000
• New elementary gifted model being implemented
• Parent Information Night will take place on March 27th at 6:30 PM in the Performing Arts Center
  
  
• Changing approval process for non-walking field trips to instructional and athletic purposes only, and all must be cost-neutral
• New process will be in place for 25-26 school year. Field trips will receive final approval or denial at the district level
  
  
• Close Erieview Elementary School and re-district remaining elementary schools
• Saving approximately $750,000 per year
  
  
• Eliminate summer school and Jump Start
• Previously paid for through ESSER Covid Relief Funds (approximately $350,000)
  
  
• Additional operating levy on ballot
• $3 million per year, for the next 10 years
  
  
• Increased permanent improvement levy on the ballot in the future
  
  
• The Copy Center will close
• Eliminates need to replace machines at a cost of approximately $200,000

Please keep in mind that the ALCS has reduced the cost of the proposed bond issue in

response to community feedback and concerns. ALCS administrators have made every effort to keep costs and other impacts associated with the need for reductions as minimal as possible while remaining fiscally responsible.

With the pending closure of Erieview Elementary School at the end of this school year, the ALCS is planning to commemorate the building and those in our community with deep connections to it, in a variety of ways. More specific details regarding these activities will be shared in the future, but the community can expect these commemorative actions:

• The Board of Education will pass an official resolution to close the building at the April meeting. We will be honoring Erieview staff at this meeting as well.
  
  
• The building will be open for walkthroughs on Monday, May 26th, before and after the City’s Memorial Day Parade. Specific times will be shared in the future. The ALCS hopes to provide this added opportunity to walk through Erieview while first and foremost honoring those who made the ultimate sacrifice during the City’s annual Memorial Day celebration. Please consider joining us for this tour and tribute to Erieview.
  
  
• Student picnics are planned to take place on the grounds as we approach the end of the year.
  
  
• A final “clap-out” at the end of the school day, on the final day of school, Wednesday, June 4th, will take place for all students. We invite anyone who at one time or another attended Erieview to join this celebration.
  
  

Erieview will forever remain in the hearts of the Avon Lake City Schools family, and these events and activities will pay the appropriate tribute to our beloved elementary building.

The Avon Lake City Schools would like to give a special shout-out to the Varsity Girls Basketball team who has advanced to the Elite 8 competition, making this their first regional final appearance since 2001. They will play at Benedictine tomorrow at 1 p.m. Go Shoregals!

Our Boys Wrestling Team will feature 13 individual qualifiers for the District competition at Perrysburg High School this Friday and Saturday, and 5 of our Girls Wrestlers will compete at Districts at Findlay this weekend as well. All the best to our Avon Lake competitors!

Our next coffee chat in the series of three upcoming gatherings will take place next Thursday, March 6th at 9 a.m. at The Kitchen. Please plan on attending. Our Take Back Togetherness night will be held on Wednesday, March 19th, with no school-sponsored activities or homework. Please plan to reconnect as families, unplug, and recharge!

Have a safe and enjoyable weekend!

Joelle M. Magyar

Superintendent of Schools

March 6 - Early Release for Students

March 7 - Conference Day (No School for Students)
March 10 - No School for Students

March 19 - Take Back Togetherness Night
March 28 - End of Third Quarter

To view the complete district calendar, click here.

Just in case you missed a newsletter from your child's school, or have multiple children in our district at different buildings, we have links below from each building principal for your convenience with the most recent information sent to families. A link to our quarterly District Facility Focus newsletter is also below.

Avon Lake High School

Learwood Middle School

Troy Intermediate School

Eastview Elementary School

Erieview Elementary School

Redwood Elementary School

Westview Elementary School

LEAPS Preschool

Facility Focus