We would like to invite you to participate in a collaborative conversation to provide feedback on proactive long-term financial planning, state funding, and facility improvements.

Kings Superintendent Greg Sears and Kings Treasurer Mike Morrow will be facilitating the conversations on February 28 at 7:00 pm at Columbia Intermediate School and March 1 at 7:00 pm at South Lebanon Elementary.

Both sessions will be the exact same, so please feel free to attend the one that is most convenient for you. We expect each session to take approximately one hour. Your participation is crucial to ensuring that we create a plan that best serves our community. We value your input and look forward to hearing your ideas and suggestions as we work together to create a plan for the future of our school district.

We hope to see you at one of these sessions, and we thank you in advance for your time and input.

The Kings High School Chamber Choir has been invited to represent Cincinnati, Ohio, in the opening Welcome Concert for the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) National Conference taking place on Tuesday, February 21, at the Aronoff Center for the Arts. The concert begins at 7:30 p.m., where over 1,600 audience members are anticipated to attend.

The ACDA Conference will take place in Cincinnati for the first time in three years, bringing together composers, conductors, clinicians, and choirs from around the nation. “Your Hand and Mine” will include over 300 voices from high school choirs from Ohio (Kings, Little Miami, Mason, Milford, and Oak Hills), Kentucky, Maryland, and New York, as well as the Cincinnati Youth Choir and the CCM Chamber Choir.

Other notable performers appearing at the 5-day conference include the Jason Max Ferdinand Singers, The Crossing, The May Festival Choruses, Cincinnati Boychoir, and Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. Among the presenters is Kings HS Choral Director Hope Kesling Milthaler, who will promote the second of a three-volume choral compendium called Teaching Beyond the Music, which she has co-written as a member of Dr. Jasn Max Ferdinand’s National Education Advisory Team. She will also present an excerpt from the book called “Every Voice Has A Home,” where students simultaneously lead voice placement and the charge for cultural health within their choral program. 

The Seventeen members of the Kings HS Chamber Choir are Jorie Allison, Joedy Burnside, Sophia Canino, Bell Cantrall, Leah Christman, Seb Collins, Kiersten Etmans, Sophie Horn, Emily Lynch, Sydney Meacham, Harrison Milthaler, Reagan Milthaler, Sherry Patrick, Sammy Patterson, Kelan Rich, Luke Royer, and Izzy Wesloh.

In January, Kings hosted clinician/composer/conductor Dr. Marques Garrett (pictured below) from Nebraska, who was commissioned to write the title piece for the event. . Please follow @kings_choirs on Instagram or the Kings HS Choir Family Facebook page for updates on free passes which soon will be available to the public.

While our students enjoyed a day off, our Kings Staff spent the day on Friday learning and collaborating with one another. The entire staff met at the beginning of the day to hear from Superintendent Sears, and then they transitioned to working together with their building teams to continue the work around the Kings Culture Blueprint.

We celebrated School Resource Appreciation Day this week. We appreciate our amazing SROs and our Safety Officers for everything they do to help keep our schools safe and for cultivating positive relationships with our students, families, staff, and communities.

Thank you, Deputy Downs, Deputy Barker, Deputy Sheppard, Deputy Green, Mr. Caudell, and Ms. Mitchell!

We sent a survey to our Kings families last week to assess our spirit wear process. If you haven't completed the survey yet, please do so soon. The deadline to complete it is Tuesday, February 21.

If you are in the market for a new mattress, don't miss Kings Junior High's largest fundraiser of the year!

KJH's 11th Annual Mattress Sale will take place on Saturday, March 4 from 10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. in the KJH Gymnasium. Every purchase benefits KJH students.

All sizes and styles will be on display. Delivery and financing are available. Clip the coupon from the flyer in Peachjar and receive free microfiber sheets with any purchase of $500 or more.

If you are interested in registering your 3-5 year-old child in preschool, Kings Early Childhood Center is now registering for the 2023-2024 school year. Classes are taught by certified general education and early childhood intervention specialist teachers. Registration packets can be found on our website.

For additional information contact Sherri Cain at 513-398-8050, ext. 10042.

Mark your calendar for Kindergarten Registration! It begins on March 13 and runs through March 31, 2023.To enroll for kindergarten, your child must turn five by September 30, 2023. More information to follow.

Join us for the first Annual Elementary STEAM Showcase on Thursday, February 23, 2023, from 6:30 - 8:00 p.m. at Kings Mills Elementary School.

The Showcase is an opportunity for your child to be involved in the STEAM process. Through a STEAM experiment or a STEAM challenge, students will engage in the Scientific Process by asking a question or will engage in the Engineering Design Process as they try to find a solution to a problem. 

Hope to see you there!

Board Members

Kings Board of Education (L-R): John Skerl, Board Member; Janelle Groff, Board Member; Peggy Phillips, Board Member; Deb Cowan, Vice-President; and Stacie Belfrom, President.

The Board of Education meets on the 2nd Tuesday of every month for a Work Session at 5:30 p.m. and the 3rd Tuesday of every month for a Regular Meeting at 6:00 p.m.

Their next meeting will be a Regular Meeting held on Tuesday, February 21, at 6:00 p.m. in Conference Room 2 of the Kings Education Center.

Visit the Board of Education page on our website for meeting dates, meeting recordings, and agendas.

All meetings are live-streamed on the Kings Youtube channel.

In an effort to be "green," the District does not send paper flyers home. We use a platform called Peachjar that houses flyers of community programs and resources. 

Parents receive approved flyers via email, and they are posted on our digital flyerboard for easy retrieval. Any organization can distribute information to our community by creating an account!

The Warren County Engineer's Office has alerted us of some local road closures that you may want to be aware of.

Grandin Road, between Grandin Ridge Drive and Venture Way, will experience intermittent closures Monday, February 20, through Thursday, February 23, during the day time hours of 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Closures are necessary for Duke Energy crews to complete short-term full closure(s) of Grandin Road to remove overhead lines. Specific time of the closure(s) are undetermined, and as these will be short-term closures, traffic will be stopped and held by law enforcement officers. Motorists may want to seek alternate routes to avoid delay. Intermittent single-lane restrictions will also be in place while crews are at work at other times, and traffic will be maintained by flaggers.No detour will be posted.

Fosters-Maineville Road, between Faller Road and Kings Court, will be closed beginning Monday, February 20, for five (5) days, weather permitting. The closure is for an underground utility construction, which will be completed by a contractor for the Warren County Water and Sewer Department. The detour for the closure will utilize Old 3’C Highway, US22/SR3 and SR48.

For more information, visit http://www.wceo.us/ or contact WCEO at (513) 695-3301.

Congratulations to Kings Gymnast Viktoria Najem, who was named Cincinnati City ALL AROUND Champion at the Cincinnati City Gymnastics Championships last weekend. Viktoria's championship is the first ever in school history!

Overall, the Gymnastics team finished 3rd Place in the City Championships while setting a new school team record. The team will be competing in Districts Saturday, February 18, at Lakota East.  

Any female student-athletes in incoming 7th grade – 12th grade interested in trying out for Kings Women’s Varsity, JV, and Junior High Golf in the fall are invited to a meeting on Wednesday, March 1, from 5:30-7:00 p.m. in the KJH Multi-purpose Room.

All current roster players and parents are encouraged to come to this very informative meeting.

For more information, contact Coach Brian Parkhurst at pgabip@icloud.com.

Please join the Kings Athletic Booster Club for their annual gala fundraiser, Knight To Remember, to support our KINGS student-athletes! The evening will begin with a cocktail hour from 5:30-6:30 p.m., followed by dinner, live & silent auctions, a reverse raffle, and dancing!

This year's theme is KNIGHTS IN THE JUNGLE and we encourage you to dress in your favorite JUNGLE attire! 

Not able to attend? You can still participate in our online silent auction by registering for a GiveSmart account. Auction items will begin to appear on the site as we get closer to the event. 

Purchase tickets and register now for KABC's biggest night of the year!

Please email Sara Ritter at saritter@cinci.rr.com if you have any questions or if your business is interested in being a sponsor or donating to our live or silent auction!