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Graph 1 compares our monthly operating receipts to the prior year actual for the first four months of our fiscal year (July 2022 through June 2023). It further estimates our collection through our fiscal year end. You will notice two large collection points in our fiscal year. These two months are considerably higher due to real estate collection representing over 70% of our revenues. | |
Graph 2 compares our monthly operating expenditures to the prior year actual for the first four months of our fiscal year (July 2022 through June 2023). It further estimates our expenditures through our fiscal year end. You will notice a consistent expenditure pattern throughout our fiscal year due to salaries and wages evenly distributed throughout our fiscal year. | |
Graph 3 illustrates the current actual accumulative monthly operating revenues and expenditures for the first four months of our fiscal year (July 2022 through June 2023). It further estimates our accumulative revenues and expenditures through our fiscal year end. You will notice a gradual increase in both revenues and expenditures as we approach our fiscal year end where revenues falls short of expenditures. | |
Graph 4 illustrates our fiscal year to date operating expenditures by category for the first four months of our fiscal year (July 2022 through June 2023). Salary and Wages represent approximately 62%, Fringe Benefits 25%, Purchased Services 8%, Materials Supplies, Textbooks, Capital Outlay and Operational Fees 5%. | |
North Royalton City Schools continues to ensure that while operating with one of the lowest per pupil expenditures in the county, students receive the same quality education that the community has come to expect. The District consistently receives the Auditor of State Award with Distinction for a “clean” financial audit report. This year marks the 28th time the District received the Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting by the Government Finance Officers Association. | |
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Taste of North Royalton Showcases Area Restaurants and Raises Money for Great Cause
On November 3, more than 360 people supported North Royalton City Schools by attending the 10th annual Taste of North Royalton fundraiser at the St. Paul Hellenic Center in North Royalton.
The event, sponsored by the North Royalton Educational Foundation and the North Royalton Stadium Foundation, has become a tradition in the community that showcases outstanding restaurants and caterers in the area. The event also featured a chance for attendees to win more than 100 raffle baskets throughout the evening and participate in sideboards and 50/50.
Guests were able to sample foods from Augie's Pizza, Bakery 57, Barrio, Brennan's Catering, Chick-fil-A, Cleats, Cozumel, Danny Boys Italian Eatery, Fire 45, In the Weeds, JaclynJo's Bakery, Mastro's 3 Spot, Nothing Bundt Cakes, Pi Day Pizza, Rosewood Grill, Salted Dough, and Talerico's Catering.
The North Royalton Educational Foundation provides grants that enhance the educational opportunities in the North Royalton City Schools as well as provide scholarships and awards to the students. The North Royalton Stadium Foundation is a collaboration of parents, community members, business leaders and school personnel raising funds for the Serpentini Chevrolet Stadium at Gibson Field.
“Thank you to our vendors and generous donors for their support,” said Superintendent Michael Laub, North Royalton City Schools. “The North Royalton Educational and Stadium Foundations should be proud of their joint effort to create such a great night for our community.”
The Taste of North Royalton committee members include Dan Dyson, Sally Newman Vavrek, John Kelly, Tony Santangelo, Anne Reinkober, Beth Burdick, Bo Kuntz, Brian Rieger, Brian Drotleff, Catherine Norris, Ann Gurin, Chris May, Christopher Burdick, Danetia McKay, Ed Vittardi, Ellen Brockman Kmetz, Endia Small, Gabrielle Heinemann, Greg Gurka, Jeff Cicerchi, Jim Presot, Karie Hulvalchick, Kathleen Filippelli, Kelly Tarnowski, Larry Vasil, Laura Whitehead, Linda Rudy, Melissa Postma, Mike Janatovich, Mike Laub, Nick Discenza, Ryan Gnagy, Sal Consiglio, Scott Spirakus, Sean Osborne, Tim McEldowney, Jamie Vanek, Melissa Vojta, and Laura Whitehead.
More pictures can be found on the District Facebook page.
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Inclement Weather Announcements
When there are circumstances that could lead to the cancellation of school, we try to make that decision as early as possible so parents can plan. We don’t always have the information necessary to make those decisions as early as we would like, but we try to communicate prior to buses leaving to pick up students at 6:05 a.m. In any case, our goal is to communicate as early as possible. Below are ways to stay informed.
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We will always post the school closings to Twitter first. Just follow @LaubNRSD. We also post to the District Facebook page.
- Make sure to have up-to-date information in PowerSchool, our student information system. If you need to update your information after it was submitted at the beginning of the year, contact your school office. Our automated phone messaging system pulls phone numbers from that data to make calamity day calls. Emails are also pulled from that data.
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Always check the homepage on the website. As long as there is power, a notice will be posted there as well. Don’t forget to refresh the page if you are leaving it open and waiting for an update.
Please note that the automated phone messaging system can be used for different types of notifications, so always be sure to listen to the message when it arrives.
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North Royalton Middle School STEM Students Compete in Clawbot Olympics
On November 10, STEM Teacher Samantha Brown and her students held their annual Clawbot Olympics at North Royalton Middle School. These 75 eighth-grade STEM: Automation and Robotics students have been preparing for this competition for several weeks. STEM stands for science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
Students spent five to six class periods being mechanical engineers by building their VEX robotics clawbot from scratch. They learned how to read an instruction manual and follow along with their directions to build their clawbot. Once built, students had to become electrical engineers and connect their smart cables into different ports in their robots' brains. Once the clawbot was built and the cables were correctly connected, they became computer engineers and hooked their remote controls up to the clawbot. After their robots were built and coded, they had two to three class periods to decide on which country they wanted to represent and practice the events in the classroom.
“On competition day, students were extremely engaged and cheered one another on,” said Brown. Students were in pairs of two and each partner had to compete in three events. “It is amazing to see students take all of their hard work and showcase their skills in a fun competition. One of the winning teams included one of our new Ukrainian students who absolutely dominated the competition. Seeing the smile on his face and all of his classmates cheering him on was amazing to witness as his teacher.”
Winning countries...
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2nd period: Canada: Garrett Andexler and Keira Burke | |
6th period: Jamaica: Joseph D’Ambrosia and Vincenzo Saviano | |
7th period: USA: Bohdan Chuprynka and Joshua Celek | |
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Students Inducted into North Royalton Middle School Honor Society
The North Royalton Middle School (NRMS) Honor Society Induction Ceremony was held on Thursday, September 29. The NRMS Honor Society is an honorary organization for students who have exemplified strong academic achievement, extracurricular participation and community service involvement during their middle school years. To be eligible, students must have earned a 3.5 cumulative grade point average during their fifth and sixth-grade years and the first three quarters of their seventh-grade year. Finally, they had to demonstrate that they followed the “Bear Way” at NRMS through the completion of an essay in addition to application forms during the fourth quarter of their seventh-grade year. The values that make up the “Bear Way” are doing what’s right, doing the best you can, and treating others as you would like to be treated.
The ceremony began with a welcome from NRMS Principal Erin Calabrese, followed by an explanation of the society criteria by Honor Society Committee member Cathy Drescher. NRHS National Honor Society president Isabella Weatherbie and member Varuni Chopra then spoke to the audience and recited the Honor Society pledge. Teacher Denise Romanchok presented the awards to the inductees.
This year’s inductees are Samantha Amick, Ginny Baugh, Kayleigh Burke, Keira Burke, Isabel Carlo, Madison Colella, Katherine Crowe, Katherine Crucitt, Joseph D’Ambrosia, Luke Darby, Michael Discenza, Lauren Douglas, Luciana Dura, Christopher Farren, Jack Folger, Gavin Franz, Sydney Fulmer, Ethan Garnes, Maximilian Geffert, Alexis Habak, Miles Hamilton, Sydney Hart, Morgan Holet, Victoria Jacubenta, Emilio Jones, Olivia Kolenz, Alaina Kovach, Lily Kate Mason, Kate Mathis, McKenzie McGee, Marko Nikolic, Benjamin Payerle, Chloe Pehanic, Hope Piasecki, Adam Politsky, Ereny Potroos, Prisha Pramod, Natalie Ryncarz, Shreya Shah, Achint Shrivastava, Nathan Singleton, Shiv Supreet Siripuram, Samantha Smiciklas, Ryder Stankiewicz, John Steffas, Claire Supelak, Benjamin Swab, Stefanie Tsybulya, Elena Turner, David Visocky, Tam-Vy Vo, and Chloe Yoon.
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North Royalton High School Students Inducted into National Honor Society | |
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On October 17, North Royalton High School (NRHS) inducted the newest members into their National Honor Society (NHS). The ceremony was held in the Performing Arts Center and included a welcome from Harikrishnan Kasi, current NHS vice president. School Resource Officer Jon Karl spoke to the audience about the importance of perseverance in life. Officers Craig Minnick, Merlin Scaria, Elana Scocos, and Harikrishnan Kasi spoke to the students about the pillars of leadership, service, scholarship and character. NHS President Isabella Weatherbie introduced the inductees. NRHS Principal Sean Osborne, led the inductees in the reciting of the pledge. The NRHS PTA sponsored a reception after the ceremony.
Congratulations to the newest members: Sadie Amick, Aswath Anand, Siddhi Aswani, Dominic Bogielski, Grady Bokoch, Alexander Brihn, Sarah Burdick, Ashley Butler, Hope Campbell, Lukas Cengic, Kira Cheren, Victoria Cimino, William Cronin, Michael Franko, Makayla Fulmer, Arnav Gopinath, Emma Hart, Natalie Held, Ava Hertel, Japhia Isaac, Savannah Jacubenta, Brandon Jenkins, Gweneth Jones, Paul Kalevakis, Alexa Kaminski, Grace Kelley, Shaun Knox, Olivia Kovach, Andy Kovalak, Claire Kramer, Allison Krzywicki, Kripa Kumaran, Sofia Kvasnytsya, Dominic Lapeus, Daniel Lee, Angel Luong, Kylie Maciak, Keira O’Callahan, Alanna Olman, Ashley Oriold, Lilian Osborne, Claire Pastore, Parija Patel, Jonathan Pavelich, Jillian Perkins, Brianna Rush, Kaitlyn Sexton, Neerja Shah, Annie Shaji, David Swab, Jenna Timko, Iaan Ung, Kaitlin Uzl, Aangee Vakil, Mallory Vish, Ryan Watrobski, Malia Weatherbie, Jeilyn White, Hailey Yurichak, and Maram Zayour.
The National Honor Society has a reputation for excellence among administrators, faculty members, students, parents, and residents of the school community. This reputation is the result of years of commitment on the part of everyone involved. Through NHS chapter service activities, members maintain and extend the qualities that won them selection. Cresta Mellon is the teacher advisor of the NRHS National Honor Society.
“This group of new inductees is another great example of the well-rounded and dedicated students we have at North Royalton High School,” said Principal Sean Osborne. “I am proud of them and know that they will represent our school well as members of the National Honor Society. Congratulations to all our current members and new inductees.”
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North Royalton High School Hosts #NRAspireHigher, a Career, College and Military Exploration Day | |
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On October 25, North Royalton High School hosted #NRAspireHigher, a Career, College and Military Exploration Day. The day began with the ninth and tenth graders taking the PSAT. After lunch the career fair began with 35 different career paths represented. Freshman students were able to interact with community members who work in these various careers. Students learned more specifics about what it takes to pursue each path, including required education, training, and what the anticipated pay and work requirements were of each career.
Careers represented included architecture, human resources, real estate, medical sales, mortgage loans officer, engineering, physical therapy, accounting, nursing, dentistry, orthodontics, pipefitting, plumbing, bricklaying, and other construction trades. Law enforcement and safety officers, emergency medical technicians, retail, information technology and several branches of the military including the US Naval Academy were also represented.
Lorain County Community College and Ohio University also were present to talk with the students.
The guest speaker was Dr. Laymon Hicks, an author, professor, consultant and motivational speaker. He spoke to the students about finding their “Why” and being resilient in their pursuit of their goals in life. He stressed the importance of overcoming obstacles and reiterated to the students that when it comes to their goals they need to, “Get up, get out and go get it!”
In the afternoon, 10th-grade students visited Cuyahoga Valley Career Center and explored the program options to them during their junior and senior years.
“I would like to thank all the participating members of our community and our outstanding counseling department for coming together to help provide this experience to our students,” said Principal Sean Osborne, North Royalton High School. “I hope that today we were able to at least plant a seed with some of our students and help them explore and nurture their career aspirations.”
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North Royalton High School Varsity Letterman Have Lunch with Elementary School Students | |
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On October 19, North Royalton High School varsity student-athletes went to North Royalton Elementary School to have lunch with the students. They had a chance to promote Bear Pride, community, good sportsmanship on and off the fields and courts, and serve as a mentor to these students.
For more pictures, click here.
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Stuff the Bus for Coats for Kids
Thank you, NoRo Nation, for your donations!
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The North Royalton Varsity football players did a fantastic job stuffing the bus on November 19. This year, the team collected 420 coats and $2,514.49. Thank you so much to all the players and their parents who volunteered as well as the generous donors. | |
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District Publishes Annual Quality Profile
Take a moment to read the District's 2021-22 Quality Profile. This is the ninth year we have produced this document, illustrating how our outstanding students and staff, as well as our supportive community, come together to "inspire and empower learners" from preschool through senior year at North Royalton City Schools. Academics, arts, student leadership and activities, fiscal stewardship, parent and community involvement, and pupil services are all highlighted within this document to demonstrate the value of a North Royalton City Schools' education.
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Cuyahoga Valley Career Center Updates
CLICK HERE to read about Lilly Osborne, a senior at North Royalton High School, who is CVCC's Student of the Month.
CLICK HERE to read the CVCC News Flash October newsletter.
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