In a tight race, Jayne Finch won with 26.37 percent of the votes, and Ruthina Malone and Jennifer Horn-Frasier came in second and third with  26.34% and 20.26% respectively. Dan Stevenson came in behind at 19.67% and David Noerper earned 6.72%. Malone and Finch are both incumbents and have prior experience on the school board, while Horn-Fraiser is a newcomer. 

Malone is the current board president and has been a member since 2017. She told The Little Hawk she decided to run for reelection because “there’s still work that I want to see us get further along in that started when I first joined the board, like FMP projects…I want to continue to work with our administration and ensuring that we’re doing our very best for our special ed teachers and families and staff.”

Finch, the other winning incumbent, has been on the board since 2021. She told The Little Hawk she chose to run for the school board “because I want to keep our school district strong in the face of all of the attacks on public education, particularly the new voucher law.”

Horn-Frasier is the only non-incumbent to earn a spot this election. She told the Little Hawk that there were two reasons she decided to run. One was that Malone suggested it, and she also “was so concerned about what I was seeing happening to public education in the country, in our state and, and I wanted to help protect and support our own district.”

Earlier this year, The Little Hawk held conversations with all five school board candidates. Read more about Malone, Finch, and Horn-Frasier’s stances here.

An earlier version incorrectly stated that Ruthina Malone came in first place, followed by Jennifer Horn-Frasier in second and Jayne Finch in third. Jayne Finch came in first, Ruthina Malone came in second, and Jennifer Horn-Frasier came in third. Updated November 5 at 8:28 PM.