
WESTFIELD TWP. — Cloverleaf Middle and High School classrooms are set up and ready for the new school year to start at the combined grades six to 12 school.
Students at the 230,000-square-foot school, at 7540 Buffham Road, will attend their first classes of the school year on Monday. The $69.5 million school was entirely funded through tax revenue from the NEXUS Natural Gas Pipeline and the Ohio Facilities Construction Commission, so no Cloverleaf taxpayer funds were used.
The school replaces the high school that opened in 1960 and the middle school that opened in the ‘70s. The facility includes several new features for the Cloverleaf School District, including a large auditorium, an NBA-size basketball court, a courtyard and more.
Cloverleaf Superintendent Dr. Daryl Kubilus said they wanted to provide teachers with more ways to expand their teaching. With including new flexible learning spaces in halls, teachers can collaborate with one another, while allowing students more space to learn. The idea of flexible spaces is carried throughout the new building’s classrooms, and hallways with areas that can be adjusted as needs arise.
The school's 650-seat auditorium is something the district had wanted for a while, Kubilus said. Behind the auditorium is the school’s woodworking shop classroom, which can feed directly into the auditorium’s backstage. Kubilus said the shop class helps create the sets for school programs and the connection, as well as the large fly space above the stage, will add more fluidity to how productions are done.