Centerville High School (Centerville, Ohio)

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Centerville High School
Centerville High School Seal
Motto Let us be known by our spirit
Established 1885
Type Public secondary school
Principal Eileen Booher
Faculty >100
Students 2705
Grades 9-12
Location 500 East Franklin Street,
Centerville, Ohio, USA
District Centerville City Schools
Colors Black and gold
Mascot Elk
Yearbook Elkonian
Newspaper Pursuit
Website http://www.centerville.k12.oh.us

Centerville High School is a public school of secondary education for grades 9-12 located in Centerville, Ohio, situated ten miles south of Dayton. It is the only high school in the Centerville School District, which also includes three middle schools, six elementary schools, and two K-1 schools, or "primary villages." The district serves all of the city of Centerville and Washington Township, as well as property parcels in the city of Kettering near the Moraine Country Club. Centerville High School has the second highest student population in Ohio.[1]

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In 2006, Newsweek/The Washington Post ranked Centerville High School as 2nd in the greater Dayton area, 18th in the state of Ohio, and 955th in the nation.[2] The Centerville City School District is one of only 17 districts to have received the Ohio Education Department's highest rating of Excellent every year since the rating system's inception in 2000. Also, Centerville High School was awarded the United States Department of Education's highest honor by becoming a Blue Ribbon School in 1984 and again in 1993. Centerville High School is one of only 7 high schools in Ohio to have been recognized more than once, as of 2002.[3] In November 1991, Centerville High School became the first high school in the United States to communicate directly via satellite with Russian students from Moscow School #23 in a television broadcast entitled "Sharing Freedom."[4] In the spring of 1991, CHS was nominated by the Ohio Department of Education as one of Reebok's America's Best Schools under the category of "Overall Excellence."[4] In 1988, CHS was one of 23 school nationwide to be awarded the Excellence in Education Award in the Drug-Free Schools Program by the U.S. Department of Education.[4]

Washington Township first began offering formal education in 1803 with a school building housing grades 1-6. Nine one-room elementary schools were also erected. In 1848, the Old Stone Academy was constructed and the first high school courses were offered. Private schools over the blacksmith shop and in Old Township Hall also offered similar courses.

In 1885, the Washington Township High School was built at 101 West Franklin Street. The first class graduated in 1890. In 1924, the Magsig building was built as a centralized school (grades 1-12). Washington Township High School became a member of the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools in 1951. In April 1955, the Central Unit of what is now Cline Elementary School was opened and junior high and the three-year high school were moved there. Kindergarten was added at Magsig. The name of the high school officially became Centerville High School in 1963. In 1966, CHS became a four-year high school with classes split by department between Magsig and Cline (then known as the South building) and students walking back and forth between classes. Tower Heights Middle School and Hithergreen Middle School were built for grades 6-8 in 1966. Hadley Watts Middle School became the third middle school in 1969. In 1973, the first part of the present-day high school was completed, becoming the East Unit in addition to the Magsig and South Units.

In 1975-76, the entire high school was finally taught inside the current building with Central, East, and West units. Magsig was changed to a middle school, and the old South was changed to W.O. Cline Elementary School. The stadium and athletic fields were built behind the high school in 1979 and the auxilery gym, as well as the new South Unit in 1980. In 1982, Hithergreen Middle School and Village South Elementary School were closed. Hithergreen is now a retirement home, but in 1991, Village South was reopened as Centerville Kindergarten Village. During the 1999–2000 school year, the Athletic Entrance, Athletic Office, and weight room were completed.

In May 2005, voters in Centerville/Washington Township supported a $4.4 million operating levy and a $2.5 million bond issue designed to compensate for a predicted district enrollment increase to 9000 students. Part of this levy includes a new addition to the front. The addition, completed over the summer, includes 9 new chemistry and physics classrooms and 3 new labs, a new main entrance, additional classroom space, and improved cafeteria commons areas. This addition is now finished and used daily by the students. The new cafeteria areas provide several booths to students and more space for the lunch line area. A new 1200-seat auditorium with state-of-the-art acoustics is slated for completion in December 2007.[5]

Centerville High School's curriculum offers 25 Advanced Placement tests in 18 courses in science, mathematics, history, government, language, economics, and psychology. The high school also offers more esoteric courses such as Introduction to Street Jam, Creative Foods, Needle Arts, and Chaos and Fractal Geometry (dealing with such topics as fractals, chaos theory, Julia and Mandelbrot sets, strange attractors and non-Euclidean geometry).[6] In the foreign language department, CHS offers traditional courses such as Spanish, French, and German, as well as Latin, American Sign Language, and Mandarin Chinese. Latin is also offered online.

Many courses are also offered online for students. These courses give the same credit as its normal counter-part. The school requires at least 15 hours of face-to-face meetings between the students and the instructors. The 2007-2008 web courses offer 4 English courses, Digital Art and Design (formerly Multimedia Design), Latin I/II, Geometry and Algebra, 2 types of biology, and 4 social studies classes.

Centerville High School's Theatre program puts on three plays a year. A Fall play, Winter Play, and Spring musical. Part of the recent construction at Centerville included the adition of a brand new Theatre. This includes a 1,200 seat auditorium as well as classrooms for the brand new Acting, Technical Theatre and Dance Classes. The keys are expected to be handed over to the Theatre Dept. in November 2007 with the first play to be the 2008 Winter play in early 2008. The new theatre addition is at the rear of the school with an entrance adjacent to the band's parking lot. The signs to the old Theatre read "Theatre Entrance", where as the new ones read "Theatre".

Centerville High School's music program includes a marching band, the Centerville Jazz Band, a nationally ranked orchestra program, a choral program, and concert band programs.

The Centerville band program is comprised of the Centerville Jazz Band, the Winter Guard and Winter Percussion, the Jazz Ensembles (Jazz I, Jazz II, and Jazz III), the Basketball Pep Band (BBPB), Wind Symphony, Symphonic Band, and the Concert Band. The Centerville Jazz Band has competed in several of the Bands of America regional and national competitions since 1990, winning the Grand National competition in 1992. The Winter Percussion Ensemble won the Scholastic World Gold Medal at the Winterguard International World Championships in 2004, finishing 2nd in 2005. In 2006, Centerville was the only High School to produce two finalist lines, the World Line (5th, Scholastic World) and the A-Line (10th, Scholastic A). The Jazz is the subject of a film documentary "From the 50 Yard Line."

The orchestra program at CHS consists of its Symphonic Orchestra, as well as the Concert Orchestra, the Chamber Orchestra (Quartet), and an Alternative Strings program (which plays bluegrass, jazz, and electronic music). The prestigious Centerville High School Symphonic Orchestra ranks as one of the best nationwide. In 2002, the Symphonic Orchestra competed at the American String Teachers Association National Competition and placed fourth, and four years later, in 2006, tied for second in its division at the same competition. In addition, the Symphonic Orchestra has received the highest rating of Superior in all areas at the Ohio Music Education Association String Orchestra Adjudication for five years consecutively, starting in 2001.

Centerville High School also has three distinguished choirs, known as Glee Club, Elktonians and Forte. Forte was added in the 2007-2008 school year. The choirs have sung at a variety of venues.

Vocational courses at the high school (commonly known as block classes, because they span multiple periods) include Biotechnology, Engineering Technology, Information Technology, Exercise Science, International Business Management, Marketing, Environmental Management, Broadcast Management, Mass Communications and Publication Journalism. The Broadcast Management class hosts a fully functional radio station, FM 101.5 WCWT (aka "The Beef"). The Mass Communications students publish the school's monthly newspaper, Pursuit, as well as put on the television news show, Centerville News Network. Students in Publication Journalism are responsible for the school's yearbook, the Elkonian.

Centerville High School hosts over 30 clubs, ranging in topic from foreign language to community service, as well as teams that consistently place at the national and global level. Clubs include Science Olympiad, Science Bowl, Destination Imagination, Speech and Debate, Model United Nations, Academic Team, and Mock Trial.

Centerville's Science Olympiad team has made it to the state tournament every year since its creation in 1985, and has qualified for the national tournament for 18 out of its 21 years. The team has also been the reigning state champion for five consecutive years, and in 2007 placed second in the nation. At the 2005 state competition, the team set a state record for best team score, placing first with only 78 points.

Beginning in the 2007-2008 school year, Centerville High School will initiate a chapter of the National Art Honor Society. The mission of the National Art Honor Society is to recognize the academically and artistically successful student through service, leadership and extracurricular opportunities within the community.

Centerville is a member of the Greater Western Ohio Conference. 13 sports are offered for boys and 12 sports and support groups are offered for girls.

This is a list of champisonships in the Ohio High School Athletic Association

The boys' volleyball team has won 3 state championships (1994, 2001, 2002)[9] as members of the Ohio High School Boys Volleyball Association.[10]

Notable alumni of Centerville High School include:

  • Andy Harmon (Class of 1987), former professional football player with the Philadelphia Eagles (1991-1997)
  • A. J. Hawk (Class of 2002), professional football player for Green Bay Packers, outside linebacker; 2-time All-American at Ohio State University
  • Kirk Herbstreit (Class of 1988), ESPN sports analyst, former quarterback at Ohio State
  • Gordon Jump, actor (WKRP in Cincinnati)
  • Mike Nugent (Class of 2001), professional football player for NY Jets; Kicker; Ohio State
  • Dave Preston (Class of 1972), former professional football player with the Denver Broncos (1978-1983).
  • Michael S. Rose (Class of 1987), New York Times bestselling author
  • Stephanie Studebaker, veterinarian and a former Congressional candidate.
  • Jeff Yagher (Class of 1979), starred in the series V and appeared on many TV series including: Six Feet Under, Alias, Star Trek Voyager, Murder She Wrote and Perry Mason. He has also appeared in movies including My Fellow Americans, Shag, View from the Top. His brother is a famous special effects technician and fellow CHS grad Kevin Yagher.

  1. ^ Smiga, Gary (June 2006). "Building for Our Future". Accent 34 (2): 4. 
  2. ^ Elliott, Scott. "Oakwood, Centerville nationally ranked", Dayton Daily News, 2006-04-02. Retrieved on 2006-07-15. 
  3. ^ U.S. Department of Education (2002). "Blue Ribbon Schools Program" (PDF). Retrieved on 2006-07-15.
  4. ^ a b c Centerville High School Student Handbook. (2005-2006).
  5. ^ Centerville City School District. CHS Front Addition. Construction Zone. Retrieved on 2006-07-15.
  6. ^ Centerville High School Course of Studies. (2006-2007).
  7. ^ Yappi. Yappi Sports Baseball. Retrieved on 2007-02-12.
  8. ^ a b c d e f g OHSAA. Ohio High School Athletic Association Web site. Retrieved on 2006-12-31.
  9. ^ Elks Volleyball. Centerville High School. Retrieved on 2007-01-08.
  10. ^ Ohio High School Boys Volleyball Association. Retrieved on 2007-01-08.
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