Clay Local School District

Clay Local School District
Address
44 Clay High Street
Portsmouth
, Ohio
United States
Coordinates38°47′32″N 82°58′6″W / 38.79222°N 82.96833°W / 38.79222; -82.96833
District information
Type(Ohio) public, rural, school district
Motto"Cognitiones Artes Habitus Virtutes"[1]
GradesK–12
Established1940; 84 years ago (1940)
SuperintendentW. Todd Warnock
Students and staff
Students717 (as of 2018)[2]
Faculty40[2]
Athletic conferenceSouthern Ohio Conference—Division I[3]
District mascotPanthers[3]
ColorsRoyal Blue   and
Gold  [3]
Other information
Websitewww.clay.k12.oh.us
Clay Junior–Senior High School, opened in 1956 at a cost of $600,000[5] The main building no longer exists. Some of it was incorporated into the new PK-12 building.

The Clay Local School District (CLSD) is located four miles (6.4 km) north of the Portsmouth, Ohio, city limits on U.S. Route 23 in Clay Township in Scioto County—which is 85 miles (137 km) south of Columbus, Ohio; 50 miles (80 km) west of Huntington, West Virginia; and 100 miles (160 km) east of Cincinnati, Ohio. Clay is a rural Ohio public school district serving 700 students in grades pre-K through 12 in Southern Ohio. With the creation of a high school (Clay Township High School) for the district in 1940, students for the first time were able to graduate from a Clay Local School District building.[5]

In 2010 a new PK-12 building was constructed. Until 2010, Clay Junior–Senior High School was one of three buildings used in the district. Rubyville Elementary School (4–6), on Maple Benner Road at the intersection of State Route 139, and Rosemount Primary School (K–3), on Rose Valley Road just off Rosemount Road in Rosemount, Ohio, were the other two buildings.[2]

  1. ^ Latin for Knowledge, Craft/Art, Reason/Thinking, and Character
  2. ^ a b c Clay High School. "About Clay?". Archived from the original on July 24, 2011. Retrieved May 10, 2007.
  3. ^ a b c OHSAA. "OHSAA Member School Info". Retrieved May 10, 2007.[permanent dead link]
  4. ^ Clay Board of Education. "Clay Local School District's Motto". Retrieved May 14, 2007.
  5. ^ a b Clay Local School District (April 22, 1956). "Clay High School Souvenir Booklet". Kah Printing Co. pp. 2–5.