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Cluster
Calendar
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Click on the calendar below to see a list of events relating to the
schools of the East Cluster.
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East Cluster Sports
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NEWS
♦ Former Univ. of Akron basketball standout and former basketball coach at East, Bobby Smith,
died
on Jan. 22 at the age of 79.
♦ At its Dec. 8 meeting, the Akron Board of Education approved the
hiring
of Tom McKinnon as Co-Ordinator of Athletics for the school system.
He will replace the retiring Jos Vassalotti.
BASEBALL
Varsity
Mon., Apr. 6
5:00 p.m.
vs. Firestone
at Old Forge
SOFTBALL
Varsity
Mon., Mar. 23
5:00 p.m.
vs. North
at Firestone Stadium
BOYS TRACK
Varsity
Thurs., Apr. 9
5:00 p.m.
vs. North
at Ellet
Middle School
Wed., Apr. 15
5:00 p.m.
vs. Hyre
at Ellet
GIRLS TRACK
Varsity
Thurs., April 9
5:00 p.m.
vs. North
at Ellet
Middle School
Wed., Apr. 15
5:00 p.m.
vs. Hyre
at Ellet
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Thank You
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Thanks to the following organizations and individuals who made
contributions to the schools of the East Cluster:
• Handel's Ice Cream donated $100 to the Drama Club at East towards their production of "Frozen, Jr."
• Jacki Cyr donated $60 to the Drama Club at East towards their production of "Frozen, Jr."
• Michael Hayes donated $300 to the Athletic Dept. at East for spring sports.
• Dragan & Lucija Radujkovic donated $400 for the football team at East.
• Rubber City McDonald's donated $362 for football supplies & equipment at East.
• Patty Buzzelli donated 2 pieces of workout equipment, assorted clothing, & school supplies for use by the students
at East. Value of the donation is $1,700.
• DonorsChoose.org donated 8 digital magnifying glasses & 1,500 lens cleaning cloths, valued at $170.91,
for the science lab at Seiberling.
• East teacher, Sonja Spencer-Jackson, donated shoes, sneakers, & boots, valued at $390, for
students or families in need at East.
• The David & Cheryl Venarge Fund donated an additional $1,000 to each of the East Cluster schools, Barber,
David Hill, East, Mason, & Seiberling, to assist in maintaining a food pantry each school.
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State Report Cards
Every year the Ohio Education & Workforce Dept. issues a report card for every public school and school district in the state.
Over the years, the grading system has changed from a series of vague categories, to a letter grade, and currently to a five-star
rating system — the kind of rating system you might see when asked about your most recent pizza or the promptness of your latest
Amazon delivery.
Here
is the report card for the Akron Public School District for the most recently-completed school year. Below are the report cards for each of the
East Cluster schools.
2024-25
Barber
David Hill
Mason
Seiberling
East High & Middle
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East
Cluster
Resources
For a list of resources helpful to residents of the East Cluster neighborhoods , click
here.
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Contact Us
If you have questions, comments, or suggestions regarding this web site or its contents,
send us an e-mail.
East Cluster E-mail
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Budget Concerns Continue
for Akron Public Schools
If the Akron Public School System hopes to avoid financial difficulty, and possible oversight by the state, it will need to reduce its budget
by $11,000,000 over the next three fiscal years.
To help identify where additional reductions could be made, the district has asked the Ohio State Auditor's office to conduct a review
of the school district's budget .
For additional detail, read the Akron Beacon Journal story
here.
2/24/26 UPDATE:
Here
is an update to the above story which include budget cut proposals made by Superintendent Mary Outley.
3/10/26 UPDATES:
Here
are some additional budget cuts proposals made by the Superintendent.
And
here
is the reaction of the Akron Education Association (the teachers' union) to the above budget cut proposals.
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What Is A.I. Policy
for Ohio Schools ?
As mandated by state's legislature, all Ohio schools must adopt a formal Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) policy by July 1 of this year.
To meet this mandate, the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce has released a model
policy
for A.I. usage in the classroom.
The use of A.I. by students and teachers will vary depending on the grade level, subject, and assignment.
A.I. might be appropriate for brainstorming or some research, but cannot be used to generate work that replaces work by the student. It can be
used to help students complete their assignments, but not do the assignments for them, the policy states.
Here
is some additional info as reported in cleveland.com.
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Got Something to Say ?
Put it in a podcast
The NPR Student Podcast
Challenge
gives students an opportunity to share stories about their classrooms and their communities or to expound on a topic they feel strongly about.
Submissions are open to students in grades 4-12. Entries must be submitted by the deadline of May 31.
Students may enter any many submissions as they like, but all must be between three and eight minutes in length.
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Banding Together
East band members, Crystal, Aubrey, and Saniah, were selected to play in the Kent State All-Star Band
Festival
on the weekend of January 10 and 11 at Cartwright Hall on the Kent campus.
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Are Akron Schools
a Fire Risk ?
A 2025 inspection by the Akron Fire Dept. found more than 200 fire code violations in the buildings of the Akron Public Schools.
Inspections were conducted in July with follow-up inspections in November.
Here
is the related story as reported in the Akron Beacon Journal.
Below are two examples of fire violations.
Buchtel
Resnik
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Mason-Vincent House
Partnership
Following the loss of normal schooling during the CoViD-19 pandemic, students emerged with a lot of academic ground to make up.
Renee Kochis, in her fifth year as principal at Mason, ushered in a creative methodology of having the school connect with a partner
that was willing to invest more than just money to improve the lives of her students. That partner, located just down the E. Exchange St.
from the school, was and is
The Vincent House.
Here
is the story of the Mason-Vincent House partnership.
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Board of Education
Election Results
There were eight candidates running for the four open seats on the Akron Board of Education in this year's November 4 general election.
The only incumbent to be re-elected was Rev. Gregory Harrison.
Newly-elected members to the Baord are, in descending order of votes received, Phil Montgomery, Karmaya Kelly, and Nathan Jarosz.
Here
are the results of the school board race, and
here
are the final results of all the November 4 races as reported by the Summit County Board of Elections.
Here
is some additional background on the November 4 Board of Education election.
The November 14 edition of the Akron Beacon Journal carried this
article
from its Editorial Board calling for less contention and more transparency from the school board.
1/6/26 UPDATE:
The newly-elected members of the Board of Education were
sworn into
office on Monday, January 5.
1/12/26 UPDATE:
At the first Board
meeting
of the new year on
January 12, new members were sworn in, officers were elected, and committee assignments made.
Pictured L to R are Gregory Harrison, Nathan Jarosz, (current member) Barbara Sykes, Phil Montgomery, and Karmaya Kelly
(Photo courtesy of Ryan Loew of Signal Akron)
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American Students
Losing Ground
The Nation's Report Card, issued by the National Assessment of Educational Progress
(NAEP),
was released on September 9, and the results are not very encouraging.
The NAEP report is a measure of student achievement throughout the nation's K-12 educational system.
Among the findings are a drop in science test scores for eighth graders and a drop in math and reading scores for twelfth graders.
Here
is the story, in print and audio, as reported on NPR.
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School Phone
Numbers
East High
330-761-7920
East Middle
330-761-7928
Barber
330-761-7911
David Hill
330-761-1630
Mason
330-761-2711
Seiberling
330-761-7956
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