Brave Family: WELCOME HOME

It is with great excitement that we welcome you to the 2024-2025 school year! 

From our unparalleled academics, arts, and athletics, to our world-class and award-winning faculty and staff, we know the educational experience we deliver is unique. This school year, as we utilize our community-supported, state-of-the-art new and renovated facilities, we will welcome our Brave Family HOME through our live events, our website, our social media channels, our printed publications, and our videos. 

Important Dates

Our Indian Hill 2023-2024 Printed Calendar was mailed to all families with students who attend the Indian Hill School District in July. You can click here to access all of those dates through our online calendar. Here are a couple of key dates to note:

•    First Day for Students (Grades 3-12)

Our building leaders will be in touch with specific information you need for your student.

We arrive back to campus this school year in year three of our always evolving #IHPromise strategic plan, to continue to help us focus on how to develop Learners as Doers, Learners as Individuals, and Learners as the Whole Child. Over the past two years, we've streamlined our initiatives based on feedback from teacher teams and community members into five core areas: Student Agency, STEM, Wellness, Career Pathways, and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. To learn more about how we do business, you can visit the #IHPromise Strategic Plan link on our district website.

Routine, consistent, and clear – that is the goal we set for all communications within the Indian Hill School District. Below you will see an overview of what to expect this upcoming school year.

Our weekly, digital newsletter is distributed each Friday; you can expect a streamlined presentation of our District headlines with access to:

Weekly Building-Level Digital Newsletters 

With the click of a button within our Friday beBRAVE digital newsletter, each building will share:

•    Weekly Video Celebrations

•    Important Dates

•    Bulletin Board of News

•    Quick Links (Online Payments, Lunch Menus, etc.)

Available as a separate digital newsletter you can sign up to receive, or as a link embedded in our weekly beBRAVE, we present IH Sports Spotlight! Under the direction of Athletic Director Brian Phelps, IH Sports Spotlight will provide Braves everything athletics they want and need to know. From student and staff accolades, to weekly game summaries, to upcoming schedules … and, of course, Brian’s 60-Second Brave Spotlight!

Available as a separate digital newsletter you can sign up to receive, or as a link embedded in our weekly beBRAVE, we present Access IH Arts! Arts and Activities Director Amy Clark is ready to take you behind-the-scenes of our classrooms, auditoriums, and art galleries in this new feature that showcases our unparalleled arts program. Join her each week as she celebrates our student-artists and staff, promotes upcoming shows, and provides visual recaps of our big performances … always with her exciting Access IH Arts video feature!

As always, you can see our #IHPromise in action as we use our social media channels to celebrate our students and our staff:

X: @IHSchools

Facebook: @indianhillschools

Instagram: indianhillschools

YouTube: IHSD Communication

LinkedIn: INDIAN HILL EXEMPTED VILLAGE SCHOOL DISTRICT

If you need to access a digital archive of past communications, brand guidelines and logos, App information, or, if you simply know of some great Indian Hill School District news you want to see us feature – welcome to the Communications Hub! The Communications Hub can be accessed each week at the bottom of beBRAVE, or you can find it on our District website within the “About” section.  

We look back over the last school year with pride: Indian Hill is ranked No. 1 in the state according to Niche; is a “Best Communities for Music Education”; has become one of six districts in the nation to earn the AASA STEM Designation; with Indian Hill Primary School, Indian Hill Elementary School, and Indian Hill High School earning Ohio STEM Designations, recognized as the best of the best in STEM learning from the Ohio STEM Learning Network (OSLN); and we are once again a Top Workplace, as voted on by our employees!

Thank you for trusting us with your child; thank you for investing in our facilities; thank you for supporting our mission and our vision as we continue to evolve the work we do. It is going to be a spectacular school year!

Brave Family: Welcome HOME!

In service to our children,

Kirk Koennecke

CEO/Superintendent

Indian Hill School District 

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