Bethel Local Schools - Educate with Excellence

There will be a Marching Band Parent Meeting on Monday, May 19th, at 6pm in Bethel Hall! Parents will have a chance to meet the band director Mrs. Rust and review information about Band Camp and the upcoming season! #BethelLegacy

BETHEL BASEBALL 3-PEATS! With today's 2-1 win over Lehman Catholic at Frosty Brown Field, your 2025 Bethel Bees Baseball team are TRC CHAMPIONS! This marks the 3rd straight title for the Bees who also won in 2024 with an undefeated conference campaign and their first conference title in 23 years in 2023! Coach Goulette, who went 1-22 in his first season with the Bees (2019) has turned the Bees into perennial conference contenders as he continues to build a championship program! Congratulations to him, his staff and especially the boys who put in the work, respond positively to challenges both internal and external, and deliver high level outcomes!

Bethel’s Distance Queen Reigns Supreme! At last night's Kettering Fairmont Firebird Invitational, Freshman phenom Olivia Brumbaugh continued to rewrite the record books—9 school records and counting! Olivia smashed the 2-Mile record by over 20 seconds! From middle school to high school, track to cross country, Olivia owns virtually EVERY distance event at Bethel. Her empire includes: MS Cross Country: 2 Mile MS Track: 800m, 1600m HS Cross Country: 5K HS Track: 800m, 1600m, 3200m, 2000m Steeplechase And while it is not considered a distance event, she also holds the middle school 400m record as well! Incredible! 🙌🏼 Keep it up, Olivia!

Bees at the NEXT level! Bethel athletes continue to raise the bar year after year! This years graduating class of 2025 has a record number of athletes going on to play sports in college. With this class of 12 student-athletes, it takes our total at Bethel over the past 5 years to 37! 2021 - 3 athletes 2022 - 5 athletes 2023 - 9 athletes 2024 - 8 athletes 2025 - 12 athletes Congrats to the class of 2025! Juli Sprague - Girls Soccer Maddie Montgomery - Girls Soccer Juliane Flaker - Girls Soccer Christian Bennett - Football Mike Halleg - Boys Golf Josh Fiery - Boys Golf Sean Austin Phipps - Boys Basketball Allie Sheen - Softball Ryan Routt - Baseball Cody DeLaet - Baseball Christian Barker - Baseball Josiah Jackson - Baseball If we have any more prior to the end of the summer who make late commitments, we will be sure to add them!

Superintendent Nutter is back with another 60 Seconds with the Superintendent for Friday, May 9th, 2025! This week's video can be found through the following link: https://youtu.be/VN_oC_6cOVE

Bethel High School Senior Spotlight! Muskaan Sandhu was a member of the National Honor Society, Student Council, and Bee HOPE, and played Volleyball while at Bethel! After graduating, Muskaan plans to attend Harvard College for Economics and Government before attending Harvard Law. #BethelLegacy #BHSClassof2025

Bethel High School Senior Spotlight! Jules Flaker played Soccer and was a member of the National Honor Society and Prom Committee while at Bethel! After graduating, Jules plans to attend Tiffin University to study nursing and play soccer. #BethelLegacy #BHSClassof2025

The Graduation Commencement Ceremony for the Class of 2025 will be held at Hobart Arena on Sunday, May 18th, at 5pm. Hobart Arena is located at 255 Adams Street, Troy, OH 45373, and the doors will open at 4pm. No tickets are required for entrance, and seating will be first come, first served. If you are unable to attend in-person, the ceremony will be livestreamed on our YouTube channel, The Bethel Bees, which can be found through this link: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheBethelBees #BethelLegacy

Here are the weekly updates from your building principals. Have a great weekend! #BethelLegacy #OneBethel ES: https://5il.co/3fp7o MS: https://5il.co/3fp7k HS: https://5il.co/3fp7h

Bethel High School Senior Spotlight! Layla Norris was a member of the Musical Stage Crew, the Thespian Honors Society, and the National Honors Society, in addition to writing the newspaper and being Class Vice President during her time at Bethel! After graduating, Layla plans to attend Miami University to study Political Science on the Pre-Law track. #BethelLegacy #BHSClassof2025

Bethel High School Senior Spotlight! Hayden Hobert was a member of the Choir and Thespian Honor Society, and played Baseball while at Bethel! After graduating, Hayden plans to attend Sinclair to start a degree in Biology to become a High School Science Teacher and Baseball Coach. #BethelLegacy #BHSClassof2025

The Bethel Local School District is so thankful to our amazing Bethel Family and Community for approving our levy on Tuesday's ballot! Your support allows us to continue in our mission to Educate with Excellence and build the #BethelLegacy

Bethel High School Senior Spotlight! Madelyn Montgomery played Soccer and Basketball and was a member of Student Council and the National Honor Society while at Bethel! After graduating, Maddie plans to attend Ohio Northern University Pharmacy Program and play women's soccer. #BethelLegacy #BHSClassof2025

Bethel High School Senior Spotlight! Skyler Lewis was a member of the Bethel Clay Shooting Club and played Hockey for 11 years with the Troy Bruins while at Bethel! After graduating, Skyler plans to work in Precision Machining and pursue his dream of playing music. #BethelLegacy #BHSClassof2025

Today is National School Nurse Day! We are so grateful to have these wonderful women, who keep our students safe, healthy, and feeling their best throughout the year! Please help us in thanking and celebrating Stacy Humphries, Heather Kemper, Tricia Moore, and Jenna Wilson for all they do! #BethelLegacy

Bethel High School Senior Spotlight! Ryan Routt played football, baseball, and basketball while at Bethel! After graduating, Ryan plans to attend Clark State to study Fire and EMS Services and become a full-time firefighter/paramedic. #BethelLegacy #BHSClassof2025

Bethel High School Senior Spotlight! Addison Cox played soccer and track and field and was a member of Bee Hope and the National Honor Society while at Bethel! After graduating, Addison plans to attend Wright State University to study Marketing or Communications. #BethelLegacy #BHSClassof2025

ANOTHER NEW SCHOOL RECORD! In last Monday's Intersquad Senior Night Meet at Bethel's ConSeal Track, Junior, Alyssa Avey broke the Pole Vault record! Set in 2023 by Sara Newton and tied by Alyssa last year at 8' 6", she is now in sole possession of the pole vault record with a vault of 8' 8"! Congratulations Alyssa! That brings the total record smashing to 5 in Track this season! Bethel Track is gaining steam and starting to compete at a high level! More records are bound to fall, even some this season yet! ---- DID YOU KNOW? 4-time State Champion, Dan Zoeller, holds the 2 oldest track records at Bethel dating back to 1969! One of those records is the 880yd (800M) at 1:55.03. FUN FACT! Junior Kade Schwiekhardt is only .30 seconds away from breaking that record after running a PR of 1:55.33 at the Wayne Invitational. Look out! History may be rewritten soon!

NEW SCHOOL RECORDS! This past weekend, two of our Bethel Track Athletes set NEW SCHOOL RECORDS at the Wayne Invitational! Senior, Remi Brannan, became the sole owner of the Shot Put Record which he tied a few meets ago to sit even with 79' Bethel Grad, Steve Pytel, at 48' 10.5". The NEW RECORD is now 49' 4.5"! Congratulations, Remi, and best of luck as you finish out your HS career! Freshman, Olivia Brumbaugh, set not 1... but 2 NEW RECORDS! The freshman phenom now owns a total of 4 school records going back to Cross Country Season! On Friday night, she broke both the 800M Run (2:27.68) AND the 1600M Run (5:22.94). Those get added to her growing list of records along with the 2000M Steeple Chase (8:36.78) and the 5K Cross Country (19:47.78). What an incredible freshman season and start to her HS career! Congratulations, Olivia, and we are so excited to see what record you set next!

Attention Parents: Bethel High School and Middle School will have a remote learning day on tomorrow, May 6th, due to election polling! Students will stay home and will have an assignment for each class. Assignments will be given the preceding day or may be posted on Google Classroom. Teachers will be available during school hours to answer questions via email. Buses will run from Bethel to the MVCTC; however, students who attend the CTC will be responsible for their transportation to and from Bethel. Elementary students will be unimpacted by the election polling and will report as scheduled. #BethelLegacy