- 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 2009, it was ranked 70th 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. 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. The 2009 List saw Wyoming's rank improve to the 50th best public high school.
- The motto of Wyoming High school is "Where Excellence Becomes a Way of Life." The mission statement reads: "To provide each student with a a well-rounded educational program leading to college entrance and/or career paths and fostering economic independence, critical thinking, and social responsibility."
- Academics
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Wyoming offers a challenging curriculum, including many Advanced Placement classes. These include 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, AP Physics B, AP Human Geography, and a world-renowned AP American Government program. Wyoming's class of 2004 was ranked first among medium sized schools in the subject.
- 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 Intro to Engineering 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.
- Extracurriculars
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Wyoming has many extracurricular activities that run the gamut of student interests, such as the Chess Club, "Icarus" writing publication, an excellent Mock Trial team, and many others.
- Wyoming is a school committed to tolerance and improving the community, as shown by the presence of such extracurricular groups as Brothers and Sisters United, Help Our Planet Earth (HOPE), the Gay-Straight Alliance, WHS for Animals, and Project LEAD, a service organization.
- 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 Diary of Anne Frank and the musical, The Pajama Game.
- Often placing at competitions of each, Wyoming's Latin club functions as a local chapter of both the Ohio Junior Classical League (OJCL) and National Junior Classical League (NJCL).
- As of Fall 2008, the list of extra-curricular activities was as follows:
- Academic Quiz Team
- JETS (Junior Engineering Technology Society)
- Latin Club
- Mock Trial
- Science Olympiad
- Teen Advisory Program
- Band
- Chorale
- Concert Choir
- Drama
- Orchestra
- "Horizon" (newspaper)
- "Icarus" (literary magazine)
- "Roundup" (yearbook)
- Brothers and Sisters United
- Chess Club
- Dance Team
- Gay-Straight Alliance
- Global Awareness Club
- HOPE (Help Our Planet Earth)
- Marching Color Guard
- Project L.E.A.D. (Leadership Experience and Development)
- Rock and Roll Club
- Scoreboard Club
- Signing With Hands
- Student Council
- Winter Guard
- WHS for Animals
- Sports
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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 24 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)
- Men's Lacrosse (Spring)
- Women's Lacrosse (Spring)
- Cincinnati Hills League All Sports Championships
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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:
- 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
- Ohio High School Athletic Association State Championships
- Boys Football – 1977
- Boys Track and Field – 1950
- Girls Basketball – 1996
- Notable alumni
- Vice Admiral C.R. "Bob" Bell, US Navy (Retired) - Class of 1948
- Thomas D. 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
- Robert Brewster, Football player
- David Payne, USA Track Team member, 2008 Olympic Silver Medalist
- 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
- Shani Smith, voice over artist, educator
- John Weld Peck II, judge
- Sam Smith, breakthrough botanist
- Deena Deardurff, American swimmer, 1972 Olympic Gold medalist in 4 × 100 m medley.
- John Terlesky, Hollywood Actor, Director, Writer, and Producer.
- Zach Fisher, Hall of Fame Swimmer.
- External links
- District Website
- CHL Sports
- Icarus Website (WHS literary magazine)
- Notes and references
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