Wyoming High School

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Wyoming High School
Principal Mrs. Annie Wade
Assistant Principal Mr. Aaron Marshall
School Type Public High School
Location Wyoming, Ohio
Enrollment about 600 students
Campus surroundings Suburb
Mascot Cowboy
School colors Blue and White
Student newspaper The Horizon

Wyoming High School is a public high school located in a suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio. Wyoming is part of the Wyoming City School District, Hamilton County, Ohio. Wyoming High School is known for its excellence in education, and was ranked among the top five districts in the state on the Ohio 2006 State Report Card, with a performance index rating of 108.6. This was its second year running of being one of the top-performing school districts in the state of Ohio. In 2005 the district was first overall with a score 108.2 In 2006, it was ranked 100th of Newsweek Magazine's Top 1200 Schools. Wyoming City Schools returned to first overall in the state on the 2006–2007 Ohio State Report Card with a score of 109.3.[1] The US News & World Report released its Best High Schools 2008 with Wyoming ranked 81st and therefore one of 100 schools nationwide to receive a gold medal from the publication. [2]

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[edit] Academics

Wyoming offers a challenging curriculum, including many Advanced Placement classes. These include AP European History, AP Biology, AP Macroeconomics, AP Microeconomics, AP Art 2D, AP Art 3D, AP English, AP French, AP Spanish, AP Latin, AP American History, AP Chemistry, AP Calculus, AP Statistics and a world-renowned AP American Government program. Wyoming's class of 2004 was ranked first among medium sized schools in the subject. [3]

Wyoming is a very strong arts school. It offers many music programs, including three string orchestras, a band, and multiple choir programs. There are also many other courses offered in the arts, such as Computer Graphics and Photography, as well as three separate AP art classes.

In addition to art, Wyoming also offers technology-based classes, such as Video Production and Computer Science.

Spanish, French, and Latin are offered in five separate levels at Wyoming. Each language has levels I, II, III, IV, and V (AP), available to every student.

[edit] Extra Curriculars

Wyoming has many extracurricular activities, such as its "Project LEAD" service organization, "Icarus" writing publication, an excellent Mock Trial team, and many others.

In recent years, Wyoming's Science Olympiad, JETS, and Academic Teams have been some of the most successful extracurricular groups in the school. In both 2005 and 2006, the Science Olympiad team won medals at the Ohio state competition.

Also of note is Wyoming's outstanding drama program, which is based in the Pendery Center Auditorium, a state-of-the-art facility that was completed in the year 2000. Recent productions include the musical, Annie Get Your Gun, and the comedy Greater Tuna. Wyoming also has an exemplary Latin Cub, that regularly places at the Ohio Junior Classical League Convention in Columbus, which is held annually in March.[citation needed]

[edit] Sports

Wyoming is part of the Cincinnati Hills League (CHL), a small school league with other small schools - mostly from east of Cincinnati. Other schools include Deer Park, Finneytown, Indian Hill, Madeira, Reading, Taylor, and Mariemont. Wyoming offers 22 varsity sports. They are as follows:

  • Football (Fall)
  • Men's Soccer (Fall)
  • Women's Soccer (Fall)
  • Volleyball (Fall)
  • Men's Golf (Fall)
  • Women's Golf (Fall)
  • Cross Country (Co-ed) (Fall)
  • Women's Tennis (Fall)
  • Cheerleading (Football and Basketball)
  • Men's Basketball (Winter)
  • Women's Basketball (Winter)
  • Swimming (Co-ed) (Winter)
  • Diving (Co-ed) (Winter)
  • Wrestling (Winter)
  • Indoor Track (Club Sport) (Co-ed) (Winter)
  • Track and Field (Co-ed) (Spring)
  • Men's Tennis (Spring)
  • Baseball (Spring)
  • Softball (Spring)
  • Bowling (Winter)

[edit] Cincinnati Hills League All Sports Championships

The CHL All-Sports trophy is awarded to the school within the Cincinnati Hills League that has had the most successful overall athletic program in the school year. The years Wyoming has won the All-Sports trophy:[4][5]

2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007

[edit] Ohio High School Athletic Association State Championships

[edit] Notable alumni

  • Vice Admiral C.R. "Bob" Bell, US Navy (Retired) - Class of 1948
  • Thomas Boyatt, former U.S. Ambassador to Burkina Faso (1978-1980) and Columbia (1980-1983)
  • C.F. Payne, Illustrator
  • Ahmed Plummer, Football player
  • P. J. Pope, Football player
  • David Payne, USA Track Team member
  • David Shenk, Writer
  • Gregg Blake, Comedian
  • Bob Goodridge, Football player
  • Joshua Wolf Shenk, Writer
  • Lance Williams, Reporter and Writer, Co-author of Game of Shadows
  • Jeff Russell, Baseball player
  • William Greider, Writer
  • Tracy Smith, TV personality
  • Tim Metcalfe, Screenwriter (Revenge of the Nerds)
  • Archimedes Plutonium (then Ludwig Hansen, Class of 1968). Scientist, introduced the Atom Totality Theory and the Fusion Barrier Principle.
  • Michael Wolfe, poet, author, and award winning filmmaker Muhammad: Legacy of a Prophet
  • Michael D. Pitman, Reporter/Journalist, Cox Newspapers
  • Myra "Miki" Turner '76, writer/producer and first black female sports columnist in the country
  • B. Todd Jones '75, former U.S. Attorney (Minnesota); partner at Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi

[edit] External links

[edit] Notes and references

  1. ^ Bradley, Eric. Wyoming District Tops in the State. The Community Press and Recorder. Retrieved on 2007-08-22.
  2. ^ Wyoming High School. US News & World Report. Retrieved on 2007-12-04.
  3. ^ Masters of their Subjects. USA Today. Retrieved on 2007-08-22.
  4. ^ Wyoming High School. Wyoming High School Athletics page. Retrieved on 2007-08-21.
  5. ^ CHLSports.com. CHL All Sports Trophy 2006-07. Retrieved on 2007-08-21.
  6. ^ Yappi. Yappi Sports Football. Retrieved on 2007-02-12.
  7. ^ a b OHSAA. Ohio High School Athletic Association Web site. Retrieved on 2006-12-31.