We have completed the first semester of the 2025-26 school year.  Our district has many successes to celebrate.  We’d like to thank our staff for their hard work, our students for their effort, and our families for their support.   Academics - Our State Report Card results released this fall showed our students are continuing to improve in overall achievement as indicated by the Performance Index.     Some other notable improvements include higher achievement for students with disabilities, increasing our graduation rate, fewer students reading below grade level in K-3 literacy, an increase in Talented and Gifted identification, and improvement in College and Career Readiness.     Academically, we continue to focus on the growth of all students, and evaluate that growth by studying the data we gain through assessments completed by our students throughout the year.  We’d like to stress the importance of each student doing their best on these assessments so we can make accurate decisions on how to best meet the needs of every student.  Additionally, we are working to add more opportunities for our high school students to receive college credit within our buildings.  We have 4 teachers taking additional coursework so their classes can be offered for college credit.  This will be in addition to the 17 CCP courses and 30+ courses offered by our CLEP program which can be taken for college credit.   I’d also like to mention the CBI (Career Based Intervention) program we added this year at both River Valley and South Gallia.  This program focuses on 9th and 10th grade students who may be considered at-risk.  The group tours various businesses on Fridays to investigate career opportunities within those businesses which our students may be interested in pursuing.  With this program, we hope to promote engagement in school and provide a clear pathway to be employed in an area they’ve had an opportunity to experience firsthand.  Facilities – We are proud to add the following facilities for no additional tax dollars to our residents.  At RVMS, our 8th grade students have moved into the new academic wing to begin the second semester.  Our staff and students are very excited to be able to use these new facilities.  This academic wing features 5 additional classrooms with state of the art technology.  One of those rooms is a new science lab.  There is also a new media center, an intervention classroom, and restroom facilities.     The new RVMS gym is also being built at this time and should be finished this spring so we can begin using it in the 2026-27 school year.  This facility will address several needs within the district and hopefully increase participation in our extra-curricular activities and allow more opportunities to have practices immediately after school which is more convenient for our families.   Lastly, the South Gallia Health Clinic is operational with Nurse Practitioner - Danielle Gruber, Dentist – Dr. Daniel Willis, and Optometrist – Dr. Hannah Davidson.  This clinic is open to the public and a great addition to the community.  If you’d like to schedule an appointment with Danielle Gruber or Dr. Davidson, please call (740) 446-6522.  Dr. Willis will begin in the near future.  Program Concerns – Our district has been able to provide summer school opportunities with the support of the Gallia-Vinton ESC, and Gallia County Job and Family Services for many years.  The federal dollars that supported this program are no longer available; therefore, we will not be able to provide summer school at the level it has been provided in the past.  Our district will work to provide intervention for students who have not met the requirements for the 3rd grade reading guarantee and opportunities for credit recovery for high school students who are credit deficient.   We are also concerned about the future of our after school programs.  It appears we will continue to receive 21st Century grant dollars for our existing programs for next year, but the future of these grants are uncertain.  We have been informed there will be no new grants awarded in the upcoming school year.

Phillip Kuhn,
Superintendent

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