Clay Local School District
The school district belongs to the OHSAA and to the Southern Ohio Conference-Division I.
After new Ohio legislation allowing the district to proceed, a bond issue was placed on the March 2008 ballot to build a new pre-K–12 facility.
[7] The ballot issue passed and the district is in the process of building a new facility.
The district also had an elementary building in Eden Park, which still stands but is no longer used by the district, and one in Rosemount (Scioto Trail School), which was located on the current site of JW Village Market.
Additional upgrades and renovations have occurred to all three buildings over the years including improvements to the high school gym, new science laboratories, renovations to all the restroom facilities, new roofs, and air conditioning for all three buildings.
The latest Ohio Department of Education report card indicated CHS met the graduation, AYP (average yearly progress), and attendance percentages/rates.
The school meets on a 47-minute, seven-period schedule in which students attend each class daily.
These academic opportunities include, but are not limited to, AP courses, Art I–IV, band, Chemistry I and II, chorus, computer applications, pre-engineering courses, economics, physics, Spanish I–IV, and web page design.
Clay's graduating classes, which average about 35 students, have received in excess of $300,000 each year in scholarship money.
The CHS staff members have an average of 16 years of educational experience.
The building was located on Maple Benner Road at the intersection of Ohio State Route 139 in Scioto County.
The district also fields boys' and girls' basketball and volleyball teams in our junior high.
[23][24] The team was 79–1 in those three years under the direction of Carol Vice, a member of the Clay Coaches' Hall of Fame.
[27] The boys' basketball team made it to the OHSAA Final Four in 1969 under the direction of Arch Justus, who is also a member of the Clay Coaches' Hall of Fame[25] and the Ohio Basketball Coaches Hall of Fame.
Terri Boldman, a member of the Clay Coaches' Hall of Fame[25] and current high school assistant principal, guided the girls to the OHSAA Final Four.
[26] While these three sports may have garnered the spotlight in years past, Clay teams have won numerous league, sectional, district, regional, and state titles.
Most recently, the golf team won its ninth straight league title.
While many of the alumni, coaches, faculty, and staff listed below have not gained notable recognition abroad, all of these individuals are well-known figures in the Portsmouth and surrounding areas and they have made considerable contributions to the Clay Local School District, to the educational field, to the sports' teams they coached, and to the athletes and students.
