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Lexington School Community,

What exactly did that groundhog see?!?! As we continue our long, cold winter, we have experienced yet another calamity day. Per our board adopted calendar, I want to update our school community on our last days for students. Our PreK-11 students will now attend on June 1st and 2nd, with Tuesday, June 2nd being the last official day of school for the 2025-2026 school year.

Thank you for allowing us to educate your students and for your continued support! Think warm thoughts and let’s bring spring back soon!

Sincerely,

Jeremy Secrist
Superintendent

Lexington Local Schools is excited to provide full-day Kindergarten to children living in the district that will be 5 years of age on or before August 19th, 2026. Due to a recent change in Ohio law, school districts must now use a uniform age-eligibility cutoff for kindergarten enrollment. As a result, our registration guidelines have been updated to reflect this new requirement. If your child will be five years of age on or before the first day of school for the 2026–2027 school year, they are eligible to start kindergarten that year. The early entrance deadline is May 15th. This replaces the previous August 1 cutoff.

Registration Steps:

1. Complete Final Forms at http://lexington-oh.finalforms.com/
2. Once Final Forms are completed, bring the required documents (See below) to Western Elementary. We will be available on school days (Monday-Friday 9:00-3:00) as well as from 4:00-7:00PM on March 5th and 12th to bring in required documents.

Required Documents for Child being Enrolled:

• Original birth certificate
• Social security card
• Immunization Records
• Custody Papers (if applicable)
• Proof of Residency
   i. Utility bill-gas, water, electric
   ii. Lease agreement/mortgage

Kindergarten Screening

Kindergarten Screening will take place May 4th-7th

Kindergarten Screening Sign-Up Sheet

Mrs. Catanese, Principal
Western Elementary
419-884-2765

WHO: Safety Town is open to any student that will be entering kindergarten this fall 2026 and lives in the Lexington Local School District.

WHAT: Safety Town is a Safety Education Program, organized by the Lexington Police Department and funded by community donations, designed to teach safety lessons to kindergarten age children.

The program invites area agencies to present and/or be a part of the lessons each day. Students get to test their basic traffic safety using tricycles, streets signs and an automatic traffic light. The program will also include books, songs, activities and crafts each day.

WHEN: Safety Town will be June 22nd - June 26th and runs from 9am-11am each day.

WHERE: Safety Town will be held at Lexington High School.

Registration must be completed and returned to the Lexington Police Dept. by June 1, 2026.

If you have any questions, you can contact
Jenny Brant This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or 419-571-5192

Registration Form Link

Current Job Postings

Certified Employment Application Form

Classified Employment Application Form

1:1 Aide Positions
Lexington Local Schools is hiring 1:1 aide positions throughout the district for the 2025-26 school year. Interested candidates should fill out a classified application at (Lexington Classified Application) and send to Assistant Superintendent, Kevin Young via email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or contact the board office at 419-884-1111

Substitute Bus Driver
Lexington Local Schools is still in need of substitute bus drivers. We will do all the training at the bus garage. Please call the bus garage at 419-884-2349 for an application and more information.

Substitutes
Lexington Local Schools is looking for substitute teachers, aides, custodians, food service, and bus drivers. Please contact the board office if you are interested (419-884-2132).

**Please click on the following link for qualification information for those interested in substitute teaching: Substitute Teaching Information**

Lexington School Community,

Lexington Local Schools uses BrightArrow as our texting service provider for public and emergency communications. If you have students attending any of our schools, you will automatically be enrolled. If you do not have children attending Lexington Local Schools, you can sign up through the link below. Thank you for your continued support!

Lexington Local Schools alerts sign up: https://bit.ly/3U0J9hp

**After signing up, please text YES to 79041 to opt-in to the texting service**

Sincerely,

Jeremy Secrist, Superintendent

Lexington Families:

Lexington Local Schools is excited to announce that we will be utilizing the Raptor Visitor Management System in all buildings. This new system will add another layer of safety and security for our staff and students.

With the implementation of this new system, the following procedures are what you can expect as we move forward with this new security measure:

•  All visitors to our schools (parent, volunteer, substitute, contractor) that wish to walk through the building will need to have a valid ID card that will be scanned with the Raptor system (state issued ID, drivers license, military ID).

•  Your ID will be scanned into the Raptor system each time you visit. Raptor will run all visitor information through the current federal and state sex offender registries along with any custom created databases of banned visitors or domestic/custodial issues.

•  Once cleared, an individual will be printed a custom visitor sticker with their photo, or given a visitor’s badge that they wear in the building.

•  If an individual is flagged as an “alert,” the School Resource Officer and Administration will be sent a text alert and will meet with the individual to resolve the situation.

•  Student drivers will not need a parent to sign out, but will require a phone call to, or from, the office.

Adopting this new system will ensure that every guest in any of our buildings, regardless of purpose, will have been screened and will have a visible ID indicating they have been cleared to be in the building.

Please make sure you bring your valid ID card with you anytime you wish to visit any of our buildings.

Your cooperation with this new procedure is greatly appreciated and is one small step that everyone can take to keep our staff and students as safe as possible.

Thank you for your cooperation and support. Go Lex!

Jeremy Secrist, Superintendent
Officer Chris Glennon, School Resource Officer

Dear Parents,

We utilize BrightArrow in our district, an automated parent notification system. The system will notify parents if their child is absent from school using the contact information you’ve provided in FinalForms.

When your child is absent the system will make an automated call to the primary number listed in FinalForms. It will also send a text message and email to the first two contacts listed in FinalForms.

Below is the message you will receive via phone and email:

This is an attendance notification from Lexington Local Schools. Your student, [[firstname]] was marked absent this morning, [[today’s date]]. Please send a note with your child upon return to excuse this absence. Press any key to repeat this message. Thank you for your attention to this important matter.

An additional note is included with text messages:

Lexington Local Schools would like to continue sending you text messages. To receive these messages, please reply YES.

(We suggest you reply YES to continue receiving alerts).

You are still strongly encouraged to call the school to report your child’s absence. Additionally, written notification is still required to excuse any absence upon return. Finally, if you have provided advance notice of your child’s absence or if they are tardy, you may not receive a call.

If you have any questions or concerns regarding this automated notification system, please contact your building principal. Thank you.

Sincerely,

Jeremy Secrist
Superintendent

Lexington Schools is transitioning to FinalForms for online forms (emergency,medical,etc.) instead of the paper packet that is typically sent home at the start of the school year.

To register a new student, please click on the following link: Lexington FinalForms

If your student is already attending Lexington and you have not received an email confirmation from FinalForms, please call your student's building so the secretaries can update your email address in the FinalForms system. Once your email address has been entered, you will receive a confirmation email from FinalForms to create an account.

Please see the links below to view Lexington's Extended Learning Plan and Return to In-Person Instruction and Continuity of Services Plan.

Extended Learning Plan

Return to In-Person Instruction and Continuity of Services Plan

Best advice is if you approach, from either direction, a school bus stopped on or along the road, for any reason, with or without its lights flashing STOP.

We must all do our part of keep our precious children safe on their way to and from school each day. No one should be in such a hurry to jeopardize children's safety.