New hires for Broken Bow schools
“Re-doing access” to weight room
BROKEN BOW - The Broken Bow School board approved contracts for two new teachers at Monday evening’s meeting. Josh Cyboron is teaching Special Education, having graduating with his teaching degree in December. Haley Savala will teach Life Skills beginning the 2023-2024 school year.
The board accepted the resignation of Carolyn Troxel, Middle School Language Arts Teacher.
Troxel is retiring after 23 years with Broken Bow schools.
Superintendent Darren Tobey said all fobs for the weight room will be deactivated due to abuse of access. “We will redo the agreement and re-activate the fobs for members,” Tobey said. Through security camera video and fob access records, the school has records of the weight room being accessed with fobs assigned to people who are no longer active members.
The board and the teachers have reached a tentative agreement on negotiations for the 2023-2024 school year. It is hoped the agreement can be approved at the March board meeting.
The District Report Card shows there are 905 students for the 2022-2023 school year. Enrollment has increased from 877 in 2019-2020; 893 in 2020-2021; and 898 in 2021-2022.
There are 65 seniors. The smallest classes K-12 are 5th and 10th grades, both with 53. The largest class is 11th grade with 66. There are 78 students enrolled in New Discoveries Preschool.
Average class size ranges from 9 to 20 students.
ACT scores in 2021 were above the state average, however, for 2022, fell slightly below the state average in all areas except Science which was slightly above the state average. Tobey said, “We have really positive areas and we have some areas where we’ve done things differently and hope to see better results when spring results are in.”
For the 2021-2022 school year, district cost per student was $15,264 for average daily attendance and $14,287 for average daily membership/ enrollment.
During district accolades, nods were given to both the wrestling team and the cheer leading squad. The wrestling team won the Class C State Championship and the cheer squad was state runner up in Game Day and Traditional Presentation. Present for the meeting were board members Tom Osmond, JB Atkins, Pam Holcomb, Amy Staples and Mary Shaw. Absent was Tim Chancellor. Superintendent Tobey and board secretary Kay Einsphar were also present.
The board will meet for a work session March 6 and a regular meeting March 20. Both meetings are currently scheduled for 6 p.m.