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Olentangy Schools will begin construction on a new middle school in June.
The school, which has not been named, will be the district’s sixth middle school. It will be built on 45 acres along Piatt Road, south of Olentangy Berlin High School, in Berlin Township.
“The addition of a sixth middle school to the district will provide the necessary relief needed on the growing enrollment in our current middle schools, particularly in the northeast region,” Superintendent Mark Raiff said in a release. “Middle school six will be the district’s third new building in the past five years, and I continue to be proud of the support of our students by our community.”
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The district plans to welcome students from kindergarten through eighth grade back to school beginning Monday. High school students will return to school beginning Jan. 19. Students will return in a hybrid model, with younger students attending school in-person for half-days five days a week, while high school students would be in-person two full days a week.
Some buildings and rooms did not have the capacity for the MERV 13 filters, Larson-Shidler said. Some frames at Groves and Seaholm high schools would not fit the filters, so instead, the district installed ultraviolet lights instead, which are designed to kill viruses such as the one that causes COVID-19.