Springboro High School

Springboro High School is a comprehensive secondary school, in Springboro, Ohio with a total of over 2,000 students and 120 teachers. The student population has continued a steady trend of growth of 100 students per school year since the early 2000s. The ratio of males to females is 1:1, and the teacher to student ratio is 1:20.^[1] The Springboro Community City School District serves the City of Springboro and parts of Franklin Township, Clearcreek Township, Wayne Township, and Turtlecreek Township.

Springboro High School is the only public high school in the suburb of Springboro, population 18,500. It is the only high school in the Springboro Community City School District. Springboro High School is academically ranked excellent with distinction, the highest possible rating by the state of Ohio Department of Education on a yearly basis. SHS was established in 1893. In the 2011-12 school year SHS was honored as the top public high school in the Great Lakes Region and received the Blue Ribbon award of Excellence from the US Department of Education.^[2]

The current home of SHS has been open since August, 1998 with two new academic wings added on and opened in August, 2006. It is Springboro's third building used as the high school within the past thirty years. The addition was $12 million, while the school was originally built for about $30 million.

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Athletics

Springboro High School's mascot and nickname are the Panthers, while the school colors are white and royal blue. The school's athletic program was a charter member of the Fort Ancient Valley Conference from 1964, when it joined as Clearcreek High School, until 1998.^[4] After many years of winning the All-Sports Trophy in the former Mid-Miami League, Springboro left for the more challenging Greater Western Ohio Conference, keeping a heated rivalry with Lebanon High School.

Springboro Community Schools has recently completed a multi-million dollar partnership with Miami Valley Hospital, giving them naming rights to the stadium CareFlight Field, named for the hospital's "CareFlight" helicopter. This deal also provides CareFlight Field with turf surfacing, a new track, and a three story building which will house doctors' offices and athletic facilities, along with an adjoining press box. Completed in the year 2009, the CareFlight Complex is among the best high school athletic facilities of southwest Ohio.

Along with the football facilities, SHS basketball coach Troy Holtrey raised over $23,000 during the summer of 2006 to build a state of the art locker room. It comes complete with custom built lockers, automatic-retracting projector screen with high quality sound, and custom Springboro Panthers carpeting. It is said to set the standard for locker rooms that stress Excellence for high schools.

Notable alumni

• Amy Tucker (Class of 1978), All-American Basketball Player for Ohio State University, Assistant Coach at Stanford University
• Brad Lamb (Class of 1986), NFL Football Player for the Buffalo Bills in 1992 and 1993; played in Super Bowl XXVII.
• Tommy Kessler (Class of 2000), guitarist for Blondie, 2010-current.
• Tony Campana (Class of 2004), outfielder, Chicago Cubs, 2011-2012.
• Jake Ballard (Class of 2006), tight end, New York Giants 2010-2011 (played in Super Bowl XLVI), New England Patriots 2012, Arizona Cardinals 2013.
• Darelle Blackburn (Class of 2007), popular Twitter user, civil rights activist^[5][6]

References

External links

• District Website