2024 Bond Issue

Beavercreek is a great community with fantastic schools. It's a great place to live and raise a family. As a result, there has been a great deal of new home development to satisfy the demand for housing and an influx of new residents. If you're new here, welcome! It's great to be a growing community. 

Beavercreek City Schools has seen the effect of these new development in the form of increasing enrollment -- especially in our younger grades. Maybe you've seen the results as we have had to lease temporary classrooms for many of our elementary schools to respond to this sudden growth. 

Portable classrooms are a quick fix, but they are not a long-term solution. They are costly to maintain and do not hold their value the way a standard building structure does.  They're not as secure for the safety of our children. And people say they're ugly. They also don't move along with students as they age, so as today's burgeoning elementary school classes move on to middle and high school, we are left struggling to accommodate the growth at those schools too. 

The right fix is to build permanent structures to educate our students. This gives us a great opportunity to build structures that support and reflect our values as a community. A High School can be a major hub for community events and engagement. From athletic fields for football, baseball, track to an auditorium big enough to host band concerts, Weekend of Jazz, Show Choir events, and other community events.  Our current facilities often leave us wanting for more capacity. 

Ohio law does not allow cities and townships to limit the pace of development. Nor does it allow us to levy an improvement tax so the cost of new infrastructure can be borne by the cost of new houses.