The Graham School

Congratulations Class of 2024!
TGS graduate students
Egg Drop ProjectStudents in Mr. McClung's Physical Science classes participated in an egg drop project. Students worked together to build devices capable of letting an egg survive a fall from a great height.
Students in Mr. McClung's Physical Science classes participated in an egg drop project. Students worked together to build devices capable of letting an egg survive a fall from a great height.
TGS public art class students completed a mural on the exterior wall of the staff lounge at the Marzetti Co.
TGS public art class students completed a mural on the exterior wall of the staff lounge at the Marzetti Co.
TGS WalkaboutEvery spring semester TGS seniors participate in a Walkabout, and truly embrace our motto "encounter the world," by learning outside of the classroom and in the community. This year a group of Seniors volunteered at the Mid-Ohio Food Collective.
Every spring semester TGS seniors participate in a Walkabout, and truly embrace our motto "encounter the world," by learning outside of the classroom and in the community. This year a group of Seniors volunteered at the Mid-Ohio Food Collective.
Meet The Graham School teachers and staff members!At The Graham School, teachers and staff prepare students for life long learning and informed citizenship through real-world experiences and rigorous academics.
TGS staff and teachers
May Days!For May Days, Catie Lewis and Hannah Martin took their PE students to Bloc Garten, a local rock climbing gym located in the Scioto Audubon Metro Park. The students spent the day bouldering and learning climbing techniques.
For May Days, Catie Lewis and Hannah Martin took their PE students to Bloc Garten, a local rock climbing gym located in the Scioto Audubon Metro Park. The students spent the day bouldering and learning climbing techniques.
TGS Students Students in May classes learned more about community resources, including the COTA. A COTA representative came to The Graham School and had a discussion before boarding the bus to learn more!
TGS students on COTA bus
The Graham School students hard at work in biology class!
TGS biology students
TGS Math ClassStudents in Andy Reardon's math class were collaborating on articles that provided a bridge to math and real word experiences. The issue of economic inequality was the topic/issue and students will finish the study graphing the inequalities seen throughout the decades in America. 
TGS math class

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Picture Day

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College Access Night

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News

James and Ed

The Graham Family of Schools welcomes our new Co-Superintendents

The Graham Family of Schools (TGFS) is pleased to welcome Co-Superintendents Ed Ingman and James Kutnow as our new leaders for the 2024-2025 school year. Together they have been Assistant Superintendents since 2022. The Graham School, The Charles School at Ohio Dominican University and Graham Elementary and Middle School Founders, Eileen Meers and Greg Brown, officially passed the torch to their successors September 1, 2024.

Ed Ingman has been with TGFS since his arrival at The Graham School in 2003, fresh out of college, to teach high school science. In 2007 he joined the initial staff of The Charles School at Ohio Dominican University as a teacher, followed by a promotion to Dean in 2009. James Kutnow moved to Columbus to join The Graham School staff in 2007 as the Experiential Coordinator and was on the development team for Graham Elementary and Middle School, becoming its Dean in 2010. Ed and James subscribe to the values intrinsic to The Graham Family of Schools, and look forward to carrying these values forward expanding growth, achievement and prosperity for these schools which provide unique, rigorous, relational, safe and innovative public educational options to K-13 students in Central Ohio.

Eileen Meers and Greg Brown envisioned providing educational opportunities for students in Central Ohio that allowed them to experience the world with support and reflection before being released into our communities as expectant citizens. They also believed in a model of collaborative leadership that can be seen in all of our schools today.

In 2000, The Graham School (TGS) opened in Clintonville as one of the first public community schools in Ohio.  It was founded in the belief that students needed the opportunity to own their learning, while encountering the world around them so that the education they received was focused on experiencing growth and knowledge both within and outside of the classroom.  The school focuses on this experiential education in a small-school setting where all students are known by all staff members. In 2007, leadership from TGS expanded their vision by opening The Charles School at Ohio Dominican University (TCS@ODU), an early college high school in partnership with Middle College National Consortium and in 2010, Graham Elementary and Middle School (GEMS) in partnership with EL Education opened to serve students in grades K-8. 

Eileen’s legacy of providing both the students and staff she worked with opportunities to grow, reflect and thrive has been one that pays forward and continues to inspire the work of The Graham Family of Schools and our community. Greg’s extensive experience in communication, leadership and education provided him with an authentic platform from which to collaborate and create learning environments that students and colleagues could learn and reflect from.  

Ed and James are embracing their senior roles with TGFS and look forward to serving a diversity of Central Ohio students and families over many impactful years alongside their dedicated and well trained staff.

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