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About Davis Middle School
Welcome to Ann Simpson Davis Middle School! Here at Davis we strive to empower our students to Live the Irish Way. This happens through our students showing:
- Integrity
- Respect
- Individual Responsibility
- Service
- High Expectations
We believe that this helps our students to be the best versions of themselves.
Through this journey of Living the Irish Way, we honor the Dublin City Schools core values:
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Take Responsibility
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Always Growing
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Better Together
These values, along with the Irish Way, provide alignment in all we do.
The Irish Way & R Factor
The Story Behind the Name
Original Cost: $9,968,872
Opened: 1988
Ann Simpson Davis was a Dublin pioneer who displayed unique bravery in America’s struggle for independence. In 1780, at 16 years old, Davis was hand-picked by General Washington to carry messages from him to his generals while they were in eastern Pennsylvania. She was an accomplished horsewoman and a perfect candidate to slip unnoticed through the British ranks. Davis often carried secret orders to her rendezvous at various mills in and around Philadelphia and Bucks County. She smuggled messages in sacks of grain and vegetables, in bullets, and in her clothes. Occasionally she would have to swallow the messages so that no one would find them. The Davis’ brick house, located on the east bank of the Scioto River, one mile south of Dublin, stood until 1977 when it was demolished to make way for a new development. Today, Ann and her husband John lie side by side underneath a double marker in the Davis Historical Cemetery on Riverside Drive. Ann Simpson Davis demonstrated loyalty to her country, her husband, and her family during her life, and was honored for her contribution to America’s independence with a school in her name here in Dublin, Ohio.
District enrollment when the building opened was 6,564 students.
The building is 115,365 square feet in size.