Windham High School (Windham, Ohio)
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| Windham High School | |
| Address | |
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| 9530 Bauer Ave [1] Windham, Ohio, 44288 USA |
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| Coordinates | Coordinates: |
| Information | |
| School district | Windham Exempted Village School District[1] |
| Superintendent | Ronald L Niemiec[1] |
| Principal | Carol Kropinak[1] |
| Vice principal | Gregg Isler[2] |
| Enrollment |
268[1] |
| Faculty | 19[1] |
| CEEB Code | 365610[3] |
| MOE Code | IRN-041723[1] (IRN number assigned by the Ohio Educational Directory System) |
| School type | Public |
| Grades | 9-12[1] |
| Athletics conference | Portage Trail Conference County Division |
| Rival | Garfield High School |
| Team name | Bombers |
| Color(s) | Black and gold |
| Yearbook | Twin Pines |
| Established | 1883[4] |
Windham High School is a public high school in Windham, Ohio. It is the only high school in the Windham Exempted Village School District. Their nickname is the Bombers. Windham High School was founded in 1883.[4]
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[edit] Athletics
In 1939, the school was ranked by American Boy Magazine as the 16th best in the nation for Six-man football. The Bombers defeated Stamford Collegiate Secondary School in Niagara Falls, Ontario for the international title on October 5, 1940.[5]
[edit] Tomahawk Conference
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According to the Record-Courier, Windham competed in the Portage County League until 1953, when the Windham school district became the Windham Exempted Village School District. In Ohio, Exempted Village School Districts are given similar authority to city school districts; i.e. to "determine for itself the number of members and the organization of the district board of education".[6] At this time, Windham withdrew from the PCL and competed as an independent.
Prior to 1953, most schools in Portage County were given "A" classification in Ohio's system of measuring school size for athletics. Due to increasing enrollment from the construction of the Ravenna Arsenal a decade earlier[4], Windham was close to "AA" classification. In fact, were freshmen to be counted, Windham would have been classified "AA". Also in the mid-1950s, Crestwood High School and Southeast High School were formed from the consolidation of a number of schools in the northern and southeastern parts of the county, respectively. These schools likewise were too large for "A" classification, yet remained in the PCL.
In 1957, Windham had an exceptional year in football, posting an undefeated record of six wins and a tie. In order to maintain "A" classification, Windham cut freshmen from the team at the beginning of the season. However, in contests against Garrettsville and Ravenna Township, football coach Leo Kot played two freshmen to prevent running up the score. After Windham defeated Mogadore High School without playing the freshmen, Mogadore protested Windham's "A" classification. Although Ohio did not sanction high school football championships at that time, the challenge had the effect of classifying Windham's basketball team as "AA".
Windham school officials met with officials of Crestwood, Southeast, and Ravenna High School from Portage County-- and Newton Falls High School from Trumbull County-- at Southeast High School to discuss the formation of a new conference. Ravenna High School was soon to consolidate with the Ravenna Township school, and would soon be classified as "AA". Newton Falls declined to join the new conference, and Ravenna opted not to compete in the conference for football.
The Bombers won the Tomahawk Conference championship for football all three years of the conference's existence, sharing the title with Southeast in 1959. Windham also won all three conference titles in baseball, and in 1961 the Bombers were state runners-up, losing the state baseball championship to Liberty Union High School.[7]
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[edit] Notes and references
- ^ a b c d e f g h Retrieved from the interactive Ohio Educational Directory System (OEDS-R) on June 1, 2008
- ^ Bly, Denise. "Windham Board of Education hires local residents to fill open positions" (PDF), Garrettsville, Ohio: Weekly Villager, 2008-05-02. Retrieved on 2008-06-09.
- ^ College Board, High School SAT Code List Search. Retrieved June 1, 2008.
- ^ a b c History of the Windham Schools. Windham Exempted Village School District (1998). Archived from the original on 2004-08-10. Retrieved on 2008-05-22.
- ^ Harris, Colin. "An all-world salute", Record-Courier, Ravenna, Ohio: Dix Communications, 2008-04-02. Retrieved on 2008-05-01.
- ^ The Ohio Constitution. 127th Ohio General Assembly. Retrieved on 2008-06-01. “Provision shall be made by law for the organization, administration and control of the public school system of the state supported by public funds: provided, that each school district embraced wholly or in part within any city shall have the power by referendum vote to determine for itself the number of members and the organization of the district board of education, and provision shall be made by law for the exercise of this power by such school districts.”
- ^ Yappi. Yappi Sports Baseball. Retrieved on 2008-06-01.
