Transition U director Kim Hood stands with 2023 graduates, who received deferred diplomas from their home schools. From left are John Barnes, Centerburg; Christopher Foor, Mount Vernon and Tiffany Smith, Ontario. Not pictured is Brandon Cassady, Cardington.

Graduation option: Defer diploma, develop life skills

April 23, 2024
MOUNT VERNON – For most high school seniors graduation opens the door to higher education, employment or military service. For others, that door doesn’t open easily. Some soon-to...
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Seniors from Knox County high schools and the Knox County Career Center fill the seminar room at the Knox Technical Center on Thursday for the first of five weekly sessions that could lead to local manufacturing employment

Career opportunities right out of high school

April 10, 2024
MOUNT VERNON – Two dozen Knox County high school seniors have begun a five-week journey that could lead to the start of rewarding manufacturing careers immediately after graduatio...
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Mateo Pechon-Elkins and Mount Vernon High School Principal Cory Caughlan look over the letter congratulating Mateo as the Knox Educational Service Center’s 2024 Franklin B. Walter All-Scholastic Award winner. Photo Credit: Larry Gibbs

‘Phenomenal student’ is Knox Walter award winner

April 10, 2024
MOUNT VERNON – A young man who was “definitely very shy” when he entered Mount Vernon High School as a freshman will graduate next month first in his class and as president of th...
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Students in Carolyn O’Brien’s fourth- and fifth-grade classroom at the Knox Learning Center peer into the garden tower in their classroom. After it is filled with potting soil the tower will accommodate dozens of plants. Mounted on wheels, it can be turned so that all plants receive window sunlight. (Larry Gibbs photo)

Excitement blooms in classroom garden towers

March 7, 2024
MOUNT VERNON – Small hands were in the dirt Monday at the Knox Learning Center, helping to expand indoor gardening experiences in two elementary classrooms. Students helped to lo...
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This Fredericktown sixth-grade team placed third among 28 teams in recent Academic Challenge competition in Mansfield. From left are Thomas Shade, Carson Sanchez, Cora Frye, Xavier Timmons and Natalie Sharp.

Freddies excel in Academic Challenge debut

February 22, 2024
FREDERICKTOWN – Sixth-grader Cora Frye has a message for fellow students at Fredericktown Middle School: Academic Challenge is fun. Cora is a member of the team that place third ...
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Dr. Timm Mackley, right, superintendent of the Knox Educational Service Center, and Kathy Greenich, left, superintendent of the Knox County Career Center, talk with state Reps. Beth Lear and Darrell Kick. Lear and Kick met with local school superintendents Friday morning.

Superintendents share school issues concerns

February 22, 2024
MOUNT VERNON – They came. They saw. They listened. Knox County’s two members of the Ohio House of Representatives met with local school superintendents Friday during a 90-minute ...
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Students in Tierany Lyons’ ceramics class at Danville High School work on molding human figures in clay. Their assignment: Depict an emotion – joy, sadness, excitement, etc. – without any facial expression.

‘Art changes the way people see life'

February 22, 2024
DANVILLE – Tierany Lyons has felt a calling that may eventually alter the scope of her professional life, but for now her focus is directly on expanding the awareness of her art s...
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Fourth-graders Lillyanna and John join Gracie and owner Barbara Waite in Waite’s office at the Knox Learning Center, located in the former Mount Vernon West Elementary building. When they entered the room John threw his arms around Gracie and proclaimed, “I love Gracie! She’s my favorite dog!”

Love comes on four paws at Knox Learning Center

February 22, 2024
MOUNT VERNON – No disrespect to the dedicated administrators, teachers and aides at the Knox Learning Center, but the school’s most popular staff member arrives on four paws. ...
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Sheriff’s Deputy Josh Jones waves to applauding students at East Knox Elementary School Thursday morning. The fourth grade student council arranged a surprise thank-you tribute to Jones, the school’s resource officer. Credit: Larry Gibbs

East Knox kids thank ‘Officer Josh’

February 22, 2024
HOWARD – The snacks and candy won’t last but sheriff’s Deputy Josh Jones probably will keep the scores of thank-you cards forever. Jones, the East Knox Elementary school resource...
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Special Education

Special Education

December 8, 2023
The Knox Educational Service Center provides special education for students ages 3 through 21. Preschool special needs students are served through classroom and home instruction....
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WE APPRECIATE OUR SCHOOL PSYCHS!

WE APPRECIATE OUR SCHOOL PSYCHS!

December 8, 2023
WE APPRECIATE OUR SCHOOL PSYCHS! Thank you for all of your hard work and support you provide to our students, staff and families!
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About Us

December 8, 2023
The origin of Ohio’s Educational Service Centers dates back to 1914, when the Ohio General Assembly created 88 “County School Districts” and charged them with the task of “elevati...
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