COLUMBIANA — District superintendent Dr. Don Mook had a lot of good news to pass along to board members Tuesday during their May board meeting, included some highlights of student achievement as the year wraps up.

Before sharing his good news regarding test results, he turned the floor over to elementary principal Kim Sharshan and high school principal Jeff Jackson, who each introduced their guests for the presentations.

Sharshan introduced participants in last week’s Living Museum, who attended in their Amelia Earhart, Elvis Presley and Joshua Dixon costumes and shared a very short biography with attendees, which they had discovered during the research for their fourth-grade social studies class.

On the other hand, Jackson shared that Columbiana had six qualifiers for this year’s Columbiana County Educational Service Center’s Heads Above the Rest breakfast compared to some districts which only had one and others none.

To qualify for inclusion, participating students had to have scored above 31 on their ACT test, which would put the testtaker in the 95th percentile that interest more competitive and elite colleges and universities. He introduced the students, many who were attending with family members, at the board meeting and they shared future plans.

Mook also informed board members and board attendees that he had received preliminary testing numbers that showed Columbiana students performing well in math, science and social studies across the board above state averages — except barely missing proficiency in sixth- and eighth-grade math.

He said he believes that the district policy of promoting some of their more exceptional math students from basic to algebra in the eighth-grade test scores. For example, while Columbiana eighth-graders finished with a 64 percent which is below the desirable 80 and above, the promoted students in eighth-grade were 100 percent proficient.

In other action, board members Anthony Rancone, Angie Jeffries and Michael Clark approved the following measures as they had the minimum to mark quorum:

— Creating a termination/severance benefits fund for unfunded liabilities to the district that will be reasonably estimated per board policy and collective bargaining agreements.

— Approving the five-year forecast and assumptions as currently submitted with the understanding figures at the federal and state level might need revisited later this summer as circumstances are warranted.

— Approving both Voice Services and Application services for ACCESS.

— Amending the nurse medical professional salary schedule.

— Approving the resignation of bus driver Elizabeth Hubbard as of April 4, and retirement of transportation supervisor Leslie Best on June 30.

— Awarding continuing contracts to teachers Carlie Beech, Ryan Holmes, Trisha Nord and Kristn Orr.

— Authorized treasurer Kathy Davies to issue limited contracts to the following classified personnel as of July 1: Jacquelin Costanzo, Christine Morozov, Deidr Ohlin, Richard Thomas III, Anna Deger, Tara Alexander, Amy Witherstine, Daniel Edwards, Rebecca Miller (all two years in length) and Marilyn Bender (1 year0.

— Authorizing Davis to issue one-year contracts to the following certificated personnel: Lindsay Beckett, W. Tyler Best, Mark Bush, Rebecca Cuff, Kelly Dangler, Holly Ferguson, Bryce Franken, Rily Fridley, Jennifer Fry, Lindsay Gaudlng, Chelsea Kaufmann, Madison Kurtz, Amy Moreschi, Brandon Morgan, Kyle Penrod, Sara Rapp, Morgan Sauerwein, Austin Saverko, Caleb Sims, Robert Spaite, Meghan Styen, Douglas Velasquez and Courtney Weinstock.

— Adopting the three-year tentative agreement between the Columbiana school district and CLASS (Columbiana Local Association of School Support), beginning July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2028.

— Approving a service contract with Columbiana County ESC for not yards student services and revisions to district policies.