Nicholas County Schools

There will be no school for Pre-K students at Cherry River Elementary School today.

In celebration of Teacher Appreciation Week, I would like to thank all of our teachers for their dedication to our students. Our profession is not always easy, but yet our teachers put the needs of the students as their priority with little fanfare and far too little appreciation. Please take the time to thank your child's teachers for all that they do. In a world of uncertainty, one thing you can count on is that teachers genuinely care about kids. I, for one, appreciate them all! Thank you! Terrence Beam, Superintendent

Bus Driver Class!!

Each year, each county selects nominees for the West Virginia State Teacher of the Year and Service Employee of the Year recognition program. This year the following people were nominated by their individual schools: Service Employee of the Year Nominees Deanna Chapman-Summersville Elementary Joan Beam-Summersville Middle Justan Bird-Gauley River Janet Davis-Richwood High Stephanie Frame-Nicholas County High Joyce Alexander-Panther Creek Tracey Adkins-Richwood Middle Cassie Thomas-Cherry River Debbie Lopetrone-Mt. Nebo Angela Brown-Zela Jerry Toney-Mt. Lookout Taylr Bradford-Glade Creek Angie Knight-Nicholas County Career Center Allyson Moore-Birch River Teacher of the Year Nominees Christina Weidensall-Summersville Elementary Junior Tyree-Summersville Middle Jennifer Altizer-Gauley River Chad Hall-Richwood High Katie Peyatt-Nicholas County High Nikki Swiger-Panther Creek Dee Hyre-Richwood Middle Marchessa Lowther-Cherry River Lou Younts-Mt. Nebo Cortney Wood-Zela Candace Key-Mt. Lookout Amanda Clark-Glade Creek Kim McPherson-Nicholas County Career Center Lisa Brady-Birch River We are thrilled to announce that Debbie Lopetrone from Mt. Nebo Elementary School has been selected as Nicholas County Service Employee of the Year! We are also pleased to announce that Candace Key from Mt. Lookout Elementary School has been named Nicholas County Teacher of the Year! Both of these ladies will now submit applications to the West Virginia State Department of Education for consideration for the state teacher and service employee of the year award. Congratulations to these wonderful employees for a job well done! They are just two of the hundreds of employees that make our school system a great one!

This is a reminder that Nicholas County Schools, along with several emergency services agencies will be conducting an active shooter drill at the Nicholas County Career and Training Center on Monday, April 21 2025. There will be no blanks fired on school properly, and students will not leave school property. If you opted out of your student participating, they will remain at their home school in the AM.

Due to flooding, Nicholas County Schools will be releasing 3 hours early today April 4, 2025.

Bus 137 and 138 wil lbe running about 30 minutes late.

There will be no school today for Summerville Middle School, Richwood Middle School, or Richwood High School.The rest of the county will operate on a 3 hour delay.

Nicholas County Schools is operating on a 3 hour delay due to Tornado Warning.

Bus 142 isn't running this morning. Sorry for any inconvenience.

I would like to clarify one statement from the post on Friday, March 28. The West Virginia State Police was NOT responsible for the background checks done for our employees. That was not correct. The company that does the background checks for many counties in West Virginia is WV Identogo, not the West Virginia State Police. The State Police were not involved in any hiring process for our employees.

Due to a water issue, Glade Creek Elementary will be closed today.

Due to bus driver shortage, bus 145 will not be running today. If your student can not make it to school due to a bus not running, please send a note, and it will be an excused absence.

There appears to be a glitch in our absence calling system. Please disregard the call sating your student was absent if your student was not absent. The issue is being investigated.

Bus 146 will be running about 15 minutes late.

Here is the link to vote on which name you would like for the new building housing Richwood High, Richwood Middle, and Cherry River Schools to be know as. The form closes Friday March 14 at noon. https://forms.office.com/r/QTX11zF1mx

I have two topics that I would like to communicate to you today. First of all, I have been sharing with you the make-up day requirement that we have to follow in order to offer instruction for 180 days, which is a state law. As winter finally appears to be coming to a close, I feel that I can announce our plans for making up the days in which we have missed. Currently, we have missed 17 days of school. The first ten days do not have to be made up because we have additional minutes in our regular day that we can use to make up the first five days that were missed, and snow packets which are used to make up the next five days that we missed. That leave 7 days to account for. In our calendar we have what is called OS days. These days can be used for making up snow days. Therefore, we will be having school on May 28, 29, 30, and June 2 to make up 4 days. I have recommended to the board that the other 3 days will be made up on June 3, 4, and 5 which would be the last day for students. Our 200 day employees must work two additional days. That would be June 6 and 9. June 9 will be granted to employees that worked the Parent Teacher Conferences (professional or service). Thus, if they worked that time off, the last day for those 200 day employees will be Friday, June 6. IT IS IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT THESE DATES ARE BASED UPON THE ASSUMPTION THAT WE WILL NOT HAVE ANY MORE SNOW DAYS THAT HAVE TO BE MADE UP. IF WE MISS ANOTHER DAY, EVERYTHING WOULD BE MOVED ONE DAY FURTHER INTO JUNE. STUDENTS WOULD COME ON FRIDAY, THE 6TH AND EMPLOYEES WOULD WORK MONDAY OR POSSIBLY TUESDAY IF THEY DO NOT WORK THE PARENT TEACHER CONFERENCE DAYS. (Assuming the board approves my recommendation) During this legislative session, a bill has been introduced to allow counties an extra five days to use snow packets if approved. I have been told that even if this bill would pass it would not go into effect until next school year, although they do have the option of putting a bill into effect upon passage. IF that would occur, it would allow us to close school in late May rather than the first week of June. The second thing I want to announce is that we will be surveying our Richwood area parents and community members (much like we did when we surveyed parents about the new PK-8 school at Glade Creek) to help us select a name for the new Richwood school. It is important to give the entire building a name for communication and informational reasons. Each of the three schools: Cherry River Elementary, Richwood Middle, and Richwood High would keep those names and all that goes with it, but the building itself would be identified with one name rather than three. That survey will be available on our website tonight and run until next Friday at noon. I will share the chosen name at the board meeting on March 17. On the March 17 board agenda, you will see an agenda item with a blank on it with no name listed. The reason for the blank is that the survey results will not be finalized in time to place the name of the school on the agenda. I will provide to the board and to the public the results of the survey prior to the board voting to approve the recommendation.

Due to a substitute bus driver shortage bus 128 will not be running today. If your student is absent due to a bus not running, please send a note and it will be an excused absence.

Nicholas County Schools are closed today, February 21, 2025.

Nicholas County Schools will be operating on a 3 hour delay on February 21, 2025. Snow routes will be used for the morning and afternoon run. If your student can not make it to the bus, it is an excused absence. Please send a note stating that. Breakfast is not served on a 3-hour delay schedule.