School Celestin completing final year at Buckeye Local School

DILLONVALE — As the 2022-23 school year draws to a close, Scott Celestin is capping off his final term as superintendent of Buckeye Local Schools.

“One of the goals in my career was to be a superintendent, and the board was gracious enough to give me a chance. I wanted to get Buckeye Local in a good place financially and culturally, and I feel like I’ve achieved that,” he said. “When I say ‘I,’ I mean my team—the schools and the unions. When things go better in the district, it’s everyone working together from the teachers to the board.”

He has been an educator

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for the past 34 years, but spent 19 of them at Buckeye Local, serving as the high-school principal in 2004 and later becoming district director of transportation and student services. He held those titles from 2011-2017, after which he was named an assistant superintendent. Celestin served as superintendent since December of 2020 and his tenure was extended through the current school year in a non-contractual agreement with the school board as they sought a permanent replacement. With former Buckeye Local High School Principal Coy Sudvary named as successor, Celestin will pass the reins come August.

“Mr. Sudvary is a very able, smart man that can handle this,” he said. “We’ll work together this summer during the transition, but I know he’ll continue to do great things for the district.”

Celestin has seen many changes during his time from staffing to building upgrades but said the students have made his experience incredible.

“The highlights are always going to be the students. I meet kids who amaze me with their compassion when they’ve raised money to help others and helped the special needs kids at our annual Olympics,” he added. “The students at Buckeye Local are nice young men and women, and everywhere they go they inspire