Buckeye Valley Local School District
| Type | Public School |
|---|---|
| Established | 1963 |
| Location | Delaware, Ohio, United States |
| Colors | Brown and Gold |
| Mascot | Fighting Baron |
| Website | www.buckeyevalley.k12.oh.us |
The Buckeye Valley Local School District is located in Delaware, Ohio and is made up primarily of students from the Ashley and Ostrander areas. The district currently consists of two elementary schools (East in Ashley, West in Ostrander), one middle school and one high school (both in Troy Twp.) The school's colors are brown and gold and their mascot is the Fighting Barons.
The Buckeye Valley Local School District was established in 1961 as a merger of the former Elm Valley (Ashley & Kilbourne), Scioto Valley (Ostrander, Bellpoint, and Warrensburg)and Radnor school districts. The State of Ohio was going to revoke the charter for the Radnor and Elm Valley districts due to the lack of facilities for high school students. While the Radnor district was looking to merge with schools in Marion County (Prospect and Waldo) and Elm Valley was in discussions to merge with Marengo schools in Morrow County, the Delaware County School board and county commissioners forced a merger of Scioto Valley, Elm Valley, and Radnor as to keep all these students going to school in Delaware County The nickname of Barons was derived from names of some of the areas that were consolidated to create Buckeye Valley: Bellpoint (also perhaps Brown), Ashley, Radnor, Ostrander, Norton, Scioto. Another idea is that it is a nod to the many landowning farmers in the area.
The Buckeye Valley Administrative offices are located near the middle and high school buildings on Coover Road in Delaware. The "Big House", as it is called informally, houses the offices of the Superintendent, Director of Administrative Services, Director of Student Success, and the Treasurer. The Director of Pupil Services, who coordinates special education services, is currently located in the middle school's main office.
Each of these elementary schools were kindergarten through 8th grade buildings from 1963 until 1986. When the Junior High schools consolidated to form a middle school using the Radnor building, the Ashley and Ostrander buildings housed the East and West elementaries with grades kindergarten through 5th grade until the new middle school was opened in 1997. The Radnor building then became the North elementary, also housing kindergarten though 5th grade. Each elementary school has approximately 400 students.
As of the 2012-13 school year the Radnor building has been shut down and is no longer an elementary for Buckeye Valley. (Note: the town of Kilbourne also had an elementary known as Brown Elementary, which was open from 1971 until 1986. It housed students grades kindergarten through 6th grade, which fed into Ashley Jr. High).
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