Northwestern Local Schools

National School Counseling Week is Feb. 3-7, 2025 to focus public attention on the unique contribution of school counselors within U.S. school systems. The theme is: School Counseling: Helping Students Thrive. National School Counseling Week, presented by ASCA, highlights the tremendous impact school counselors can have in helping students achieve school success and plan for a career. Let’s take a moment to appreciate our counselors who help our young Warriors thrive!

Cedarville University Cheerleading is excited to offer a Junior Jackets Cheer Clinic this year! This is a one day clinic on Saturday, February 22nd where the Junior Jackets will perform at halftime of the basketball games that afternoon. Junior Jackets are girls ages 4 - 12 years old. For more information and to register for the clinic see: https://cedarvillecheer.totalcamps.com/shop/EVENT Please contact Coach Hayley Holmes at hstudebaker@cedarville.edu if you have any questions.

Golfers of ANY ability! Please sign up to play in the 5th Annual Golf Scramble to support the Ladies Soccer Program/NW Athletic Boosters. Saturday, May 10th starting at noon will be a great time that you don't want to miss! If you would like to sponsor a hole please reach out to Whitney Walsh at walshw@nwlschools.org. Thank you!

The 4th Annual Mattress Sale hosted by Northwestern Bands is THIS WEEKEND! This fundraiser is one day and they bring the showroom to US!

January is School Board Recognition Month, and we are recognizing our superhero school board members for their commitment to our students and community. Thank you to the dedicated leaders who serve on our local school board! They play a crucial role in the education of our children. Please join us in saying “thank you” this month!

Good afternoon! Due to the school closings, we will have a menu change for Thursday, 1/23/2025. The Elementary and the Jr/Sr High will be serving the following: Sausage Pancake Wraps Hashbrowns Juice Milk Fresh fruit and vegetables will be available also. Thank you, Food Service Dept.

Good afternoon Northwestern families, All evening activities are canceled for this evening, January 21, 2025. Also, Northwestern Local Schools will be CLOSED tomorrow, January 22, 2025. Thank you!

Northwestern Local Schools will be closed today, Tuesday, January 21, 2025. Thank you!

Our texts and calls are currently not going through to announce the delay for tomorrow. Please share our previous Facebook post to help spread the communication! We are currently working to resolve the problem. Thank you!

Due to a cold weather advisory and forecasted temperatures from the National Weather Service, the Northwestern Local School District will be on a two hour delay on Tuesday, January 21, 2025. AM preschool is 10:40-12:30 and PM preschool is 1:40-3:30. Thank you!

Good afternoon families, The last message indicated that message and data rates may apply to text messages from the district. Please know that this is not the case. There have been no changes in texting services from previous messages that you received. Texts received from this number (98900) can be considered official NWLS messages. Thank you and have a great weekend!

This fall we started recognizing students at our monthly board meetings for their achievements. Teachers and staff members nominated students for their academics, behavior, leadership, teamwork, work ethic, outstanding performances in a particular academic area, etc. Please help us by congratulating our January students for representing the Warrior Way! Picured (left to right): Blake Seelig, Jameson Sanders and Lucy Bowers

Good afternoon parents and guardians, Updates have been released for our Rooms communication app. To assist with this update, please view the flyer and videos below: Video (English): https://youtu.be/zW9d0VzqDFI Video (Spanish): https://youtu.be/W8Cnu-tgK9M

The 2025-2026 school calendar was approved at the January board meeting last week.

Congratulations to our New Carlisle Rotary Students of the Month- Brock Bishop, Citizen of the Month, and Taylor Scott, Student of the Month!

This fall we started recognizing students at our monthly board meetings for their achievements. Teachers and staff members nominated students for their academics, behavior, leadership, teamwork, work ethic, outstanding performances in a particular academic area, etc. Please help us by congratulating our students for representing the Warrior Way! October- Carter Baugh and Kyle Macy November- Jasire Rogers, McKenna Steele, Trevor Jones, and Braxton LeBlanc December-Grace Quigg and Blake Williams

Northwestern Local Schools will be on a two hour delay tomorrow, Wednesday, January 8, 2025. AM preschool is 10:40-12:30 and PM preschool is 1:40-3:30. Thank you!

The agendas for January's Regular Board Meeting and the Organizational and Tax Budget Hearing has been posted online. The meeting will take place on Thursday, January 9th at 6:30 p.m. in the Athletic Complex.https://www.northwestern.k12.oh.us/page/the-board-of-education

Evening sporting events for junior/senior high athletes are on as scheduled. Players will be contacted by their coaches about practice times. Thank you!

Menu change for Wednesday, 1/8/2025 for both the Elementary and Jr/Sr High: Chicken Nuggets Cheesy Potatoes Fresh veggies with dip Sorbet Cup Milk Thank you, Food Service Dept.