Woodridge Local School District

Woodridge Local School District
275
Address
4411 Quick Road
Peninsula
, Ohio, 44264
United States
Coordinates41°11′29″N 81°30′33″W / 41.1914°N 81.5091°W / 41.1914; -81.5091
District information
TypePublic
GradesPre-K through 12
Established1958
SuperintendentN'ecole Ast
AccreditationOhio Department of Education
Schools3
Budget$35,212,000 (2022–23)[1]
NCES District ID3904997[1]
Students and staff
Students1,983 (2024–25)[1]
Teachers123.10[1]
Staff255.12[1]
Student–teacher ratio16.11[1]
Athletic conferenceMetro Athletic Conference
District mascotBulldogs
ColorsMaroon, white
   
Other information
Websitewww.woodridge.us

Woodridge Local School District is a public school district in Northeast Ohio, covering the village of Peninsula and most pf Boston Township and parts of Akron, Cuyahoga Falls, Boston Heights, Richfield Township, and Sagamore Hills Township. The district's boundaries are adjacent to and partially within the Cuyahoga Valley National Park. Woodridge was established in 1958 as a result of the merger of the Boston and Northampton Local School Districts and was known as the Boston–Northampton Local School District until 1972. The district operates three school buildings on a central campus in northern Cuyahoga Falls and serves students from preschool through twelfth grade.

History

The district was established in 1958 by the merger of the Boston Local School District, which covered the village of Peninsula and most of Boston Township, and the Northampton Local School District, which covered most of Northampton Township.[2] At the time, Northampton did not have a high school and paid tuition for students to attend neighboring high schools, while Boston Township had the smallest high school in Summit County.[3][4] The merger was first explored in 1957 after the state reduced the amount it subsidized rural districts for those tuition costs and Northampton voters defeated a bond issue to build a new high school.[5] Boston voters were initially not interested in a merger and Northampton had difficulty finding any neighboring district that could take its high school students. By mid January 1958, after also exploring a merger with the neighboring Stow Local Schools, the Northampton Board of Education pressed for a merger with Boston and the Summit County Board of Education approved it later that month, creating the Boston–Northampton Local School District.[4][6] The new board of education met for the first time February 18, 1958.[7]

Voters approved a bond issue in May 1959 to construct a new high school in what was then Northampton Township and construction began in January 1961.[8] During the 1960–61 and the first half of the 1961–62 school years, the district rented space at the Cathedral of Tomorrow for elementary students due to overcrowding at Northampton School.[9] Once Woodridge High School opened January 29, 1962, grades seven and eight were all transferred to the former Boston High School in Peninsula, which became Boston–Northampton Junior High School, and Northampton School was made a K–6 elementary school.[8]

The school board approved the name change to Woodridge Local School District in February 1972 and it became official that July. Woodridge was chosen because it was already the name of the high school.[10]

Administration

  • Superintendent: N'ecole Ast

Schools

  • Woodridge High School
    • Principal: Albert DiTommaso
  • Woodridge Middle School
    • Principal: Jesse Hosford
  • Woodridge Elementary School
    • Principal: Beth Harrington

Enrollment

Source:[11]

1965[12] 1970[13] 1974-75[14] 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010 2015 2019 2020 2023
1,679 1,853 1,735  1,298  1,008   1,019  1,192  1,688 1,757 1,936 1,988 1,867 1,880 1,928

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Search for Public School Districts – District Detail for Woodridge Local". National Center for Education Statistics. Institute of Education Sciences. Retrieved August 21, 2026.
  2. ↑ "For Better Schools". Akron Beacon Journal. January 30, 1958. p. 6. ...the current steps have been taken to transfer the Northampton district into the Boston district...members of the Summit County Board of Education took the lead in that board's action in approving the amalgamation.
  3. ↑ "Merger Talks". Akron Beacon Journal. January 7, 1958. p. 15. Northampton Board, which must pay tuition to send its eighth frade students to area high schools, has been seeking a permanent home for them for months.
  4. 1 2 "Will Ask Boston Merger". Akron Beacon Journal. January 14, 1958. p. 2. Northampton Board President Paul Ross said Stow officials are cooperative but "not particularly anxious" to accept Northampton's eight-grade system. Board members believe Boston, smallest high school in Summit County, could benefit from additional students.
  5. ↑ "Tuitions Put School In Red". Akron Beacon Journal. July 10, 1957. p. 32. State regulations were changed to require any district without its own high school to pay tuition fees. Northampton's 144 high school students now go to Hudson, Boston, Revere, Stow, and Cuyahoga Falls High Schools.
  6. ↑ "Lesson From A Straw Vote". Akron Beacon Journal. October 5, 1957. p. 6. When the votes were counted, however, it was plain that Boston voters believed their district had more to lose than gain from merger. Northampton approved, 2 to 1, but Boston said no by an emphatic 5 to 1.
  7. ↑ "Air School Problems". Akron Beacon Journal. February 17, 1958. p. 23. The first session of the Board of Education which will govern the new combined Boston and Northampton School District will be held at 8 p. m. Tuesday in the Northampton building/
  8. 1 2 "Woodridge High Opens: Shift Pupils". Akron Beacon Journal. January 29, 1962. p. 15. The big shift was made in Boston–Northampton Schools today. Approximately 340 ninth through twelfth graders moved into the new Woodridge High on Quick rd. west of Rt. 8...Woodridge was started at the beginning of 1961...Another 231 seventh and eighth graders at Northampton schools were transferred to the former high school in Peninsula, now renamed Boston–Northampton Junior High. The space left in Northampton School will be taken by first, second, and kindergarten childen who have been using temporary quarters in Cathedral of Tomorrow.
  9. ↑ "New Woodridge High Won't Make Deadline: Must Use Cathedral Once Again". Akron Beacon Journal. August 28, 1961. p. 9. Supt. Wilford Gregg told the Board that 60 to 65 kindergarteners will be houses in the Rt. 8 church in addition to Grades 1 and 2, which were there last year.
  10. ↑ "Boston–Northampton changes to Woodridge". Cleveland Press. February 9, 1972. p. 5. ...voted to change the school district's name to the Woodridge Local School District. The change will become effective July 1...
  11. ↑ "Ohio Department of Education – Enrollment Data". Retrieved June 10, 2024.
  12. ↑ "Issue 1 Becomes Battle of Figures: Here's Breakdown". Akron Beacon Journal. October 9, 1965. pp. A12.
  13. ↑ "Pupil Count". Akron Beacon Journal. September 12, 1970. pp. B1.
  14. ↑ "Student Tally by District". Akron Beacon Journal. November 15, 1974. pp. B1.


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