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Sylvania Franciscan Academy

5335 Silica Drive, Sylvania, OH, 43560-0435 -

School Notes Overview:

Sylvania Franciscan Academy nurtures holiness rooted in Christian values, supports and encourages individual academic excellence, creative expression, and service to others with reverence and love for all creation. SFA Preschool Curriculum follows the Diocese of Toledo Course of Study and the Early Learning content Standards of the Ohio Department of Education. We also use the "Creative Curriculum", by teaching strategies to do evaluations and enhance skills....

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School Overview:

	Sylvania Franciscan Academy
School Membership(s)	National Catholic Educational Association (NCEA) National Association for the Education of Young Children
Religious Affiliation	Roman Catholic
Grades Offered	Grades Prekindergarten - 8
County	Lucas County, OH
Student Body
Total Students	319 students
Student Body Type	Co-ed
	This School	(OH) School Avg.
% Students of Color	13%	19%
Students by Grade
	Pre-K - 73 students
	Kind - 30 students
	Grade 1 - 31 students
	Grade 2 - 27 students
	Grade 3 - 31 students
	Grade 4 - 24 students
	Grade 5 - 26 students
	Grade 6 - 30 students
	Grade 7 - 25 students
	Grade 8 - 22 students
Academics and Faculty
Total Classroom Teachers	16 teachers
	This School	(OH) School Avg.
Teacher : Student Ratio	1:19	* Ntl. Public School Avg. » 1:16
School Days in Calendar Year	178 days	180 days
Hours in School Day for Students	6 hours	6 hours

School Notes:

Sylvania Franciscan Academy nurtures holiness rooted in Christian values, supports and encourages individual academic excellence, creative expression, and service to others with reverence and love for all creation. SFA Preschool Curriculum follows the Diocese of Toledo Course of Study and the Early Learning content Standards of the Ohio Department of Education. We also use the "Creative Curriculum", by teaching strategies to do evaluations and enhance skills.
Profile last updated: 02/18/2009

In the News:

The blessing of the worms (National Catholic Reporter)
posted on October 6, 2009 at 06:34:47 pm
SYLVANIA, OHIO — This year's annual blessing of pets at Sylvania Franciscan Academy had its usual dogs, cats and gerbils, as well as worms. About 60,000 worms .
Lowly creature is elevated at ceremony at Lourdes College (The Toledo Blade)
posted on October 6, 2009 at 10:03:31 am
By TOM HENRY BLADE STAFF WRITER He died 783 years ago. But St. Francis of Assisi probably had a big smile in heaven yesterday for the ecology work that 13-year-old Rachel Perzynski began in Sylvania months ago with a bunch of worms. Not any worms, mind you. A special variety called Eisenia fetida that compost food scraps five times as efficiently as ordinary night crawlers, according to Jamie ...
Pinwheel project puts artistic spin on 'whirled peace' (The Toledo Blade)
posted on September 22, 2009 at 09:36:14 am
By JENNIFER FEEHAN BLADE STAFF WRITER FINDLAY - Creating a "pinwheel for peace" made perfect sense to Elonah Bennett, 8. "I used a lot of different colors like red and yellow and orange and purple - really light, bright colors that make you think about peace," the third-grader explained. "Not brown and black because those make you think about violence. "I wrote on it in different colors," she ...
Headmaster named for Sylvania Franciscan Academy (The Toledo Blade)
posted on August 5, 2009 at 03:47:07 pm
A former administrator with the Lucas County Board of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities is the new headmaster at Sylvania Franciscan Academy. Richard Kohler, 53, is a member of the graduate faculty for Lourdes College's Master of Education program, and will retain those duties while taking over management of the academy's general operations and guiding its future expansion and ...
Lourdes to run Sylvania Franciscan Academy (The Toledo Blade)
posted on July 1, 2009 at 09:50:41 am
Lourdes College announced Tuesday it will oversee operations of Sylvania Franciscan Academy, providing new opportunities for collaboration between the educational institutions. Both schools had been sponsored by the Sisters of St. Francis since the facilities' inceptions - 51 years for Lourdes College and 36 years for the academy, which has kindergarten through eighth grade. The schools are ...

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School Zip Statistics:

About This Zipcode (43560)	School Zip (43560)	(OH) State Average
Population (Approximate)	28,263 people	11,353,002 people
% (age 25+) w/College Degree	51%	21%
Population Average Age	38 years old	37 years old
Average Household size	2.7 persons	2.3 persons
Median Household Income	$61,519	$43,643
Avg. # of Rooms in Household	6.8 rooms	5.7 rooms
Median Age of Housing Structure	36 years old	47 years old
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% Owning / % Renting	80% / 20%	66% / 34%