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#ihpromise state of the

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amessage from interim superintendent dr. melissa stewart

Indian Hill’s Amy Dunlap Named 2025 National Coach of the Year

We want our students to feel seen; we want our students to feel heard.

This is the heart of our #IHPromise.

This New Year started a new era for the Indian Hill School District. And, having served our children since becoming a Brave in 2007, I felt humbled that our Board of Education would ask me to step into the role of Superintendent…and excited.

For years, I’ve watched generations of Braves both enter and graduate from our buildings. Each child learning how to be the best version of themselves they can be; each child coming to us with a dream that we have dedicated our lives to helping them achieve.

This is what it means to be an educator.

Board members…and, as you will experience in our State of Schools video presentation – with our students.

Yes.

This New Year started a new era for the Indian Hill School District. But one thing that will always remain the same: We love kids. And we support ALL 2,205 of them who know the Indian Hill School District as Home.

I can’t wait for YOU to hear how our STUDENTS define the state of our schools.

Dedicated to the success of our children,

As Superintendent of Schools, the first item on my agenda was to pull up a chair and listen. That is exactly what I have done. With community members, with partners, with parents, with teachers and staff, with administrators, with

Indian Hill High School DECA Students Earn Record State Qualifications

Dr. Melissa Stewart Interim Superintendent Indian Hill School District

National Merit recognizes 10 Indian Hill High School students

IH ARTS CONSERVATORY: Indian Hill Middle School student-musicians selected for OMEA

I play the violin, and I just started. I really enjoy playing it. It comes in with science, too, because in science you learn about pitch and sound and the violin can help with that.”

emma hutchinson | class of 2033

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I make sure new kids feel welcome at the new school.”

fletcher cushman | class of 2030

LET’S GO, BRAVES!”

eVa shriVastaV | class of 2030

Being a Student Ambassador has given me a level of confidence I didn’t have.”

londyn carraway | class of 2030

I’ve learned so much being here, as a person, as a human, and as a student – and you can’t get many of the things you get here at other places.”

deVlan daniel | class of 2027

Indian Hill isn’t just a place we go to school for, it really feels like you’re a part of something bigger.”

ardisha thawrani | class of 2027

I developed a nonprofit, Teens Together, which raised $10,000 to donate to Dayton Children’s Hospital and its Growth Hormone Fund so that more kids suffering from GHD can get the treatment they need. Support came from families in the district helping us raise thousands of dollars from the kindness of their own hearts.”

aidan kincaid | class of 2026

I really get to do a lot of my passions.”

oliVer shea | class of 2036

My best learning was to help kids be brave throughout the school year.”

aliana hutchison | class of 2037

The teachers and staff are so nice, they come in with a big smile every day.”

ryan bruck | class of 2033

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Indian Hill Board of Education (Lto R, front/back): Tim Schweikert, Board Member; Nolan Marx, Board Member; Bear Tullis, Board President; Niki Singh, Board Member; Robert Warfel, Board Vice President.