By Tom Nader

Publisher and Editor

Streetsboro High School’s athletic landscape for the 2026-27 school year will be determined by the levy on May’s ballot.

The Streetsboro Board of Education already has voted to reduce the district’s Athletic Director position from full time to part time, beginning in 2026. The vote was conducted at the BOE’s March meeting.

At the same meeting, the BOE also voted to reduce the district’s Athletic Secretary position.

Streetsboro Superintendent Cynthia Deevers said that the number of hours the Athletic Director works will be on a week by week basis, flexing in anticipation for business seasons throughout the year.

The Board of Education has also approved cancelling all middle school, freshman and junior varsity sports for the 2026-27 school year, if the May levy fails.

The cuts have been deemed necessary due to the state’s Board of Education placing Streetsboro in a status of financial precaution.

When a district is placed in the fiscal precaution, it is the initial level of state oversight for a district that is showing early signs of financial trouble. It requires the district to submit written plan within 60 days that includes a blueprint for stabilization to avoid further state oversight.

Streetsboro first put its 5-mill additional, continuing levy for new funding on the ballot in May 2025. Voters rejected the levy (568 yes vs. 1,293 no). The levy failed again in November (1,181 yes vs. 2,075 no). The district has not approved new funding since 2019.

The levy would generate more than $3.8 million in revenue annually and would cost homeowners about $175 per $100,000 of their appraised property value.

With the failed levy, Streetsboro is losing a minimum of $1 million each year, according to a financial forecast presentation made on Oct. 13, 2025 by Streetsboro City Schools Treasurer Brian Haines, which was reported by The Portager.