Category: SRWC

On Friday, February 7, 2025, more than 200 third graders from the Willard and McGuffey PK-8 schools worked in groups for a cross-content field trip experience at the Warren City Schools’ Student Recreation and Wellness Center.

On the SRWC’s turf, students worked in groups of eight to lay out fraction cards and discuss what they noticed about them.

Next they used the turf lines as a number line and placed the cards from least to greatest.

Students had to be in agreement on the placement of each card before they could move on to the next one and record their answers.

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine joined Warren City Schools students, staff and community leaders on Monday, Nov. 25, 2024, to celebrate the opening of the Student Recreation and Wellness Center.

Gov. DeWine assisted students and Warren Board of Education in cutting the ribbon at the new facility located on the Warren G. Harding High School Campus. The governor toured the center during his visit.

Read some of Gov. DeWine’s remarks HERE.

By Virginia Shank / Schools Public Relations

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Fifth-graders from all four of Warren’s PK-8 schools participated in an out-of-this-world experience during a recent visit to the new Warren City Schools’ Student Recreation and Wellness Center.

On Monday, Nov. 4, 2024, the students spent time inside an inflatable SkyDome Planetarium learning about stars, planets and constellations.

The event, organized in partnership with Mobile Ed Productions, marked the school district’s first large-scale field trip to the new student center located on the the Warren G. Harding High School campus.

Groups of students sat inside the darkened SkyDome for about 45 minutes, viewing projected images of the night sky.

The planetarium can accommodate up to 90 students at a time. As one group of students experienced the SkyDome, another group was either arriving or department via buses from their respective school buildings. day was carefully coordinated, with staggered bus schedules bringing students from each school.

First graders from the McGuffey PK-8 School were the first Warren City Schools students to not only visit, but also use the district’s new Student Recreation and Wellness Center.

The students spent some time at the new facility on the Warren G. Harding High School campus on Thursday, October 10, 2025. Their teachers collaborated with the physical education teacher to plan some gross motor activities to culminate a unit in the English Language Arts curriculum. The focus was on our bodies and how they move. 

The students participated in a variety of activities, including relays and field games, in the turf area.   

By Virginia Shank / Schools Public Relations

Excitement continues to intensify throughout the Warren G. Harding High School campus as the new Warren City Schools Student Recreation and Wellness Center edges toward completion.

Workers have been putting the final touches on the center that will house a robotics area, health wing, lounge area and study stairs, among other features.

Plans are for the new facility to open to students this fall.

These photographs provide a sneak peak inside the center:

The new Warren City Schools Student Recreation and Wellness Center is taking shape and is on track with some facilities scheduled to open to students in August 2024.

Areas of the center that will be operational at that time include the Robotics area, golf simulators, track and work out facilities.

The district broke ground for the new center, located between Warren G. Harding High School and Mollenkopf Stadium in June 2022.

The construction is on pace to have the main facility operational by the start of the 2024-2025 school year.

The main section of the 136,000-square-foot building will be a large, open space with a 200-meter running track on the ground floor and a walking track above.

Read more on the WCS Student Recreation and Wellness Center Here.

A groundbreaking for the new Warren City Schools student recreation and wellness center at Warren G. Harding High School was held Tuesday, July 12, 2022.

Previously, the district shared renderings of the 120,000-square-foot, two-story facility set to be built between Harding High School and the football field. The structure will feature athletic facilities, along with educational and healthcare services and resources. 

A 200-meter, multi-purpose surface track is planned for the first floor while an additional track for walking is designated for the second floor. Discussions include the inclusion of space for Esports and the Harding robotics program, among other programs. There is also potential for a student-run cafe or bistro. 

Money through a federal grant is paying for the bulk of the multi-million-dollar project. Plans are for students to be able to use a portion of the new complex in the Fall of 2023 before the remainder is finished.