About Barber CLC
- Teachers have an average of 19 years of experience.
- 80% hold a master's degree or higher.
- Our staff includes a full-time Title 1 teacher and four tutors for targeted student academic support.
- Certified classroom teachers provide before- and after-school tutoring programs that focus on reading and math skills and strategies.
Barber CLC Programs:
- Akron Reads with family math/game night
- An active PTA
- Morning and afternoon preschool and Pre-K for 3-5-year-olds
- Movie with the principal
- Perfect Attendance Pizza Pizzazz luncheon
- Reach 1/Teach 1 with the Akron Police Department
- Reading intervention, including Accelerated Reader, 100 Book Challenge and AkronReads, in partnership with Akron Beacon Journal
- School-wide spell-a-thon
- School-wide student planner system to teach organization skills and ensure completion of work
- Volunteer programs
History of Barber CLC
Barber Community Learning Center is named in honor of George Barber (1805-79), who, with the help of his son Ohio Columbus Barber, formed the Barber Match Co. Their ‘strike-anywhere matches came into general use throughout the nation. When George Barber died in 1879, his business was making one-fifth of all the matches manufactured in the United States. His son, O.C. Barber, founded Barberton and became known as the "Match King of America." The original school building was constructed in 1929 and opened in February 1930, then later demolished in 2008. The new Barber CLC was open to students on January 4, 2010.