Batavia High School (Ohio)

Batavia High School is a public high school located in Batavia, Ohio. It is the only high school in the Batavia Local School District. About 625 students attend Batavia High School, and it has recently started open enrollment. The school mascot is the Bulldog. Batavia High School is located 20 miles east of Cincinnati, and is within the village of Batavia, which is a village of about 1,700 people and is the county seat of Clermont County. The school district encompasses the village and surrounding areas serving a total population of approximately 14,300. Batavia High School is a participant with the Southern Buckeye Conference, or SBAAC, and the rival of the Batavia Bulldog sports teams are the Williamsburg Wildcats.History of Batavia High SchoolThe village of Batavia was founded in 1814, however, the first settler in the area was Ezekiel Dimmitt, of whom often paid itinerant teachers to come school not only his children, but children of other locals throughout the area.There had been several designated areas throughout the village for the teaching of children, including a public school established at an Old Presbyterian Church, which was a small frame building located on the east side of market street, possessing two teachers there, as well as a wooden floor with a hold in it that was used for discipline. The other unofficial Establishment was a log malt house that was part of a deserted distillery at the head of Spring Street.The next building to house the youth of Batavia include the first building built specifically as a school, which was an eight-room brick building on the upper end of Main Street that can still be seen today, existing now as a private residence and Church. It was here that the citizens of Clermont County took advantage of the Akron Law, which provided for the establishment of school boards, and allowed for an organized school to be produced. On June 1, 1850, Batavia became the first community in Clermont County to take advantage of the Akron Law, and created the School of District #1 of Batavia Township, possessing a Board of Education and creating Batavia Local Schools. The first president of the schools was Edward Scofield.