Fairview High School (Fairview Park, Ohio)
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Fairview High School is a public high school located at 4507 West 213th Street in Fairview Park, Ohio, located just west of Cleveland, Ohio.
The school's colors are scarlet and gray. The athletic teams are known as the Warriors. The school is a member of the West Shore Conference.
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[edit] History of FHS
Prior to 1928, there was no high school in Fairview Park. All high school students were sent to West High, West Tech, and later Rocky River High School. When the high school was first constructed, it contained twenty-one rooms and could accommodate 450 students. Dedicated on January 8, 1929, its first students were enrolled that same January with the sophomores being the upper classmen. These pupils were the first to graduate from Fairview High School on June 1, 1931.
The first addition to the high school was built in 1948 due to enrollment growth and the need for expanded curriculum. It included new industrial arts facilities, a 1,100-seat gymnasium, and assembly rooms. The original shop was remodeled, becoming a cafeteria.
Between 1952 and1954 ten new classrooms were added as well as an art room, a music suite with practice rooms, a business education complex, and an auditorium with a seating capacity of 844 persons. These new additions made for a structure almost as large as the original building. Then, too, the library was doubled in size, the cafeteria enlarged, and the home economics wing, which was part of the original building, modernized. The dedication of the auditorium was combined with the 25 th anniversary celebration of the opening of the original section.
The high school swimming pool opened in June of 1961, the largest of any Cuyahoga County school at the time. In 1968, the science wing saw expansion with the addition of seven classrooms and a planetarium. An auto mechanics building opened on the high school grounds located by the athletic practice fields in October 1970.
[edit] School Songs
[edit] Alma Mater
(Interestingly, the Fairview Alma Mater has the same tune as that of Rocky River High School.)
Every heart holds precious memories,
Of the days gone by.
Memories of the friendships made there,
In our Fairview High.
Three cheers for Fairview, Fairview High
Here's to the Scarlet and Gray
May thy spirit long continue
As in days gone by.
[edit] Fight Song
(Tune: Ohio State's "Buckeye Battlecry")
Drive, drive on down the field,
Men of the Scarlet and Gray.
Don't let them through that line,
We've got to win this game tonight.
FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!
Smash through to victory
We'll cheer you as we go
Honor defend, we will fight to the end
For Fairview High.
[edit] Ohio High School Athletic Association State Championships
- Boys Swimming - 1964
- Girls Volleyball – 1985,1988
