| Lincoln High School | |
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| Address | |
| 140 South Hamilton Road Gahanna, Ohio, (Franklin County), 43230 USA |
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| Type | Public, Coeducational high school |
| Motto | Home of the Golden Lions |
| Established | 1928 |
| School district | Gahanna-Jefferson Public Schools |
| Superintendent | Mark White[1] |
| Principal | Dwight Carter[1] |
| Grades | 9-12 |
| Enrollment | More than 2,300 students |
| Campus size | 38 acres (150,000 m2) |
| Color(s) | Blue and Gold [1] |
| Athletics conference | Ohio Capital Conference[1] |
| Team name | Golden Lions[1] |
| Accreditation(s) | North Central Association of Colleges and Schools [2] |
| Website | gahannaschools.org |
Lincoln High School is a public high school in Gahanna, Ohio.
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Established in 1882 as Gahanna High School and renamed Lincoln High School in 1927, Lincoln is the only high school in the Gahanna-Jefferson Public School District. The original Gahanna High School was located on Short Street in what is now known as Olde Gahanna. The current school building opened in 1927, and it has experienced many additions and renovations since, the most recent being in 2000. Over 2,300 students attend the school.[3]
The name 'Gahanna Lincoln' is a result of an early struggle between Gahanna and Jefferson Township. The Township wanted their name on the high school; however Gahanna was against naming the school Gahanna Jefferson High School (the district was already named 'Jefferson Local Schools' at that time). The city and Township compromised and named the school Lincoln, and the name remains.
Lincoln High School's mascot is the Golden Lion and so the school is nicknamed the "Home of the Lions." The school colors are Royal Blue and Athletic Gold. The 38-acre (150,000 m2) campus is made up of three buildings, named "A", "B", and "C". This compound, along with athletic facilities, district administration building and Lincoln Elementary, takes up nearly an entire block, bounded on the north by Havens Corners Road, and on the west by South Hamilton Road. The original 1927 building was renovated in 1987 is known today as B Building. The 2000 addition is known as C Building and was built to replace the previous C Building which stood where the entrance to the stadium is today. A Building was originally constructed in 1963 and has had additions in 1982 (an auditorium, a library, a band room, and an auxiliary gym) and 1995 (science classrooms, theater and TV classrooms, a choir room, a new main office complex and a second cafeteria).
Aaron Gyde
Enrollment at Lincoln has held steady in recent years, but the school is currently overcrowded. Further expansion within the current site is not practical. However, an opportunity to purchase land across the intersection of Granville Street, Havens Corners Road, and South Hamilton Road from the high school's current location presented itself in late 2008. Due to the opening of a new Kroger Marketplace store close to the site of an existing Kroger supermarket, the old store closed, opening up a parcel of land. The school board voted unanimously to purchase the site, and is working with Bird Houk Collaborative, a developer and architect based in Gahanna, to develop a mixed-use site, including the new Gahanna Lincoln High School Learning Center.[4]
The current plan is for the former Kroger building to be demolished, and a new building constructed along Granville Street on the south end of the site. The new facility will have a first floor occupied by various retailers, while the second and third floor will be exclusively occupied by Lincoln High School classrooms. The district will lease the retail space to a developer, in hopes of raising extra revenue. The rest of the site will possibly be developed into commercial and residential buildings at a later date. The reconfigured site will have buildings along Granville and South Hamilton streets and parking behind them, rather than the current configuration of parking along the street and the building set back behind the parking lot.
The new Learning Center is expected to open in autumn 2011, and will be named Clark Hall, after Gahanna's founder, John Clark.
The graduating class of 2005 had four National Merit Scholars, the class of 2006 one, the class of 2007 two, and the class of 2008 three. The class of 2010 has 5 National Merit currently has 5 National Merit Finalists: (Shahmeer Azmat, Ajda Gokcen, Aaron Gyde, Megan Jashinski, and Sai Pranav Reddy Uppati). The district outperforms the State of Ohio in both graduation rates and every phase of the tenth-grade Ohio Graduation Tests.
The school's Latin Club functions as a local chapter of both the Ohio Junior Classical League (OJCL)[5] and National Junior Classical League (NJCL).[6]
First started in the Autumn of 2004, Gahanna was the first school to hold a marching band "un-contest." The event was started by Jeffery Shellhammer, the director of bands for 19 years.[7] Parents, friends, and family come from Defiance, Dover, Whitehall, New Albany, Logan, and many other nearby towns. These schools' bands do not normally compete, but instead come to Gahanna to play "football music" to the large crowd of people. In order to participate, the bands are required to play music that is loud and energetic, as well as somewhat difficult and interesting. Also, the pieces cannot include sideline percussion. Sideline percussion includes chimes, xylophones, timpanis and many others.[8] The first "un-contest" was held Saturday, October 8, 2005 and had over 1000 band members and over 3000 people in attendance. Tickets for adults are six dollars; for children and students the price is three dollars. The name of the un-contest for the 2005 year was NewHannaHall, but this changes with the bands involved. [9] The marching band alone currently consistists of 130 members and is now directed by Rob Cebriak, Greg Miller and Jonathan Bradshaw. [10]
Gahanna's athletic teams compete in the Ohio Division of the Ohio Capital Conference (OCC). The school claims three team state titles in boy's track and field in 1979 and 2009 and Boys soccer in 2009 along with dozens of Conference Titles. The school has had numerous individual state champions in boy's and girl's track, along with swimming. Gahanna swimmer, and then University of Georgia student, Amanda Adkins made the 2000 U.S. Women's Olympic Swimming Team in the 200 meter backstroke. Gahanna thrower Bruce Washington held the state record in the discus for many years at 257.6 feet (78.5 m). In 2011 Freshmen Morgan Belli beat Amanda Adkins record in the 100 backstroke. Morgan beat three school records in her first high school swim season. She went fourth in states in both the 200 IM and the 100 backstroke.
The football team has a long standing record of excellence having had only 6 losing seasons since 1970.
After a mid-1990s overall slump in athletic performance, especially within league competition, success returned to the Golden Lions in the 2004-05 year when Gahanna captured seven OCC titles, the most since 1978. The programs have become more consistent in league play since then, winning numerous OCC titles in several sports.
The boys track team has won two state titles (1979,2009) and the Boys Soccer team won a state title in 2009 as well. The softball team (2003, 2011), boys volleyball (1991), and football (1976) teams have all placed second in the state. Overall, the boy's track squad, who is led by Ed Rarey (57 years as head coach), has won the most conference titles with 30, most recently in 2007. Softball has won four district titles, three OCC, two regional titles and two state runner-up title since 2003.
Gahanna Lincoln has recently acquired a new turf field for various sport teams through private donations. Stands renovations and a new softball complex are also on the agenda once funding is secured.
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