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January 14, 2021
Dear North Royalton City Schools' Community,
Happy New Year and welcome to the second semester of the 2020-21 school year.
We joyfully welcomed back students into our classrooms and buildings this week and it could not have made all of us any happier! As I walked the halls of our buildings, it was so wonderful to see our children in the classrooms with their teachers and friends. Many thanks to our teachers, administrators and staff, especially our custodians, who have made it possible for us to open our doors safely and with confidence with an abundance of safety protocols in place. Additional desk shields, signage with reminders on social distancing, hand washing and good hygiene in our classrooms coupled with our students and families taking their daily health assessments and following health guidelines, will hopefully assure our doors to remain open.
Using the latest public health guidance from our local and state agencies, our return to in-person instruction five days a week for K-4 and our blended learning model for grades 5-12, will provide our students an enriched learning experience to continue to inspire greatness in each one of our students. The Ohio Department of Health has issued updated quarantine protocols for those that have been exposed to COVID-19 that we will be following and you can find those below. Students and staff exposed to a COVID-19 positive person in school are no longer required to quarantine as long as the exposure occurred in a traditional classroom setting and all students/teachers were wearing masks and following other appropriate protocols.
I hope that you find this monthly newsletter informative and a good way to keep you up to date on the happenings of our schools and the Board of Education. I welcome any thoughts and comments that you have in regards to this or anything dealing with the North Royalton City Schools. Please call me at 440-582-9030 or email me at greg.gurka@northroyaltonsd.org.
Sincerely,
Greg Gurka Superintendent North Royalton City Schools
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Graph 1 compares our monthly operating receipts to the prior year actual for the first six months of our fiscal year (July 2020 through June 2021). 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 six months of our fiscal year (July 2020 through June 2021). 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 six months of our fiscal year (July 2020 through June 2021). 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 fall short of expenditures. 
Graph 4 illustrates our fiscal year to date operating expenditures by category for the first six months of our fiscal year (July 2020 through June 2021). Salary and Wages represent approximately 61%, Fringe Benefits 25%, Purchased Services 10%, Materials Supplies, Textbooks, Capital Outlay and Operational Fees 4%.
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LINKS to District Financials
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Interested in reading more? District financial information such as our annual financial reports, forecasts, tax rates, etc., can be found by clicking here.
Biagio Sidoti, Treasurer
North Royalton City Schools
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Students Thank Board of Education for Their Service
January is School Board Recognition Month and at the January 11, 2021, Board of Education meeting, students thanked the North Royalton Board members through a video for their years of service to the District. CLICK HERE to watch the tribute.
Strategic Plan Update Presented at January 7 Board Meeting
Director of Personnel Pat Farrell presented an update on the District's Strategic Plan at the January 7, 2021, Board of Education work session/organizational meeting. The Strategic Plan was first approved in June 2018 and will expire in August 2023. It has five goals: Student Achievement, Communication and Community Engagement, Professional Development and Financial.
District Publishes New Quality Profile
North Royalton City Schools, as part of the Alliance for High Quality Education, publishes an annual Quality Profile. This profile helps characterize the overall educational value of the North Royalton City School District. The Quality Profile includes important information about the ways in which our District invests in our students. It gives our residents a transparent snapshot of our schools focusing on academics, digital learning, fiscal stewardship, arts, athletics, pupil services, and parent and community involvement.
Many districts in the State of Ohio waited to produce this publication until this month due to their complete attention to the opening of schools due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
CLICK HERE to view the 2019-20 North Royalton City Schools' Quality Profile.
K-12 School Quarantine Guidelines Updated
The Ohio Department of Health released new guidelines to address COVID-19 exposures in K-12 in-person learning environments. The guidelines apply to classroom settings only. It states that students and teachers exposed to a COVID-19 positive person in school are no longer required to quarantine as long as the exposure occurred in a traditional classroom setting and all students/teachers were wearing masks and following other appropriate protocols.
Close contacts of COVID-19 positive cases outside of the classroom setting/buses will still need to quarantine.
CLICK HERE for CDC Guidelines on when to quarantine.
North Royalton High School Students Pay It Forward with Donations to the Friendship Room
 North Royalton High School seniors Savannah Skorepa and Nick Taylor worked together to raise funds for a non-profit group that not only offers hope and compassion to members of society but is close to the heart of NRHS Counselor Monica Boduszek.
Both Skorepa and Taylor are members of the NRHS Key Club, an international student-led organization that gives students the opportunity to build character and leadership skills by performing acts of service in their communities. Last year, Boduszek was the advisor to this group and asked the two to look into The Friendship Room as the recipient of fundraising.
At the time, Boduszek's mother was battling cancer and she had taken time off to be with her. During this time, she found that her childhood home in Steubenville had been converted into The Friendship Room. This is a non-profit group for the forgotten people of Ohio Valley that builds relationships, reaches out to the homeless, addresses issues like addiction, and provides food to those who are hungry.
While Boduszek was with her mother in Hospice care, she created a Facebook fundraiser for the Room, as her mother had wanted to volunteer there but wasn't strong enough to do so. The total amount raised through the online campaign was $2,600 and Boduszek's mother was thrilled.
In North Royalton, Skorepa and Taylor had held their own Facebook fundraisers for The Friendship Room on their respective birthdays and gave groceries and paper products to the group as well. Taylor said his inspiration to create the fundraiser not only came from wanting to help others with the Key Club, but also after seeing posts on the Friendship Room's Facebook page about what supplies they are low on and pictures of their empty fridges with requests for help filling them.
The fridges did not go empty this past holiday season either as Skorepa and Taylor had organized another donation drive in December for the Friendship Room with an entire car packed to the brim with groceries and food. The non-profit group posted a picture of Skorepa with the car full of donations on their social media account and thanked the Key Club for their generosity.
Boduszek said that this February marks one year since her mother passed away, but after seeing the student's commitment to helping organizations that help others, her spirits were lifted.
"My mom's legacy continues just a little more, everyone wins. I am forever grateful for all my students and how they've touched my life, but Nick and Savannah took something very personal to me and really made a difference in so many ways," said Boduszek.
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Be sure to visit #NRInspireGreat as well as our District Facebook page
for pictures and stories from all of our buildings.
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to read the District's Quality Profile.
to read the latest edition of the The Bear Way Click herefor the NR Board of Education meeting minutes and agendas. Click here for meeting dates for 2021.
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