Mariemont High School

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Mariemont High School
Address
Mariemont High School
1 Warrior Way

Mariemont
,
(Hamilton County)
,
Ohio
45227

United States
Coordinates 39°8′41.5″N84°21′51.3″W / 39.144861°N 84.364250°W / 39.144861; -84.364250
Information
Type Public, Coeducational high school
Motto"Work Hard. Create Experiences. Embrace Growth."
EstablishedApril 14, 1879 [1]
School district Mariemont City School District
SuperintendentSteven Estepp [2]
PrincipalJames Renner [2]
Teaching staff35.49 (FTE) [3]
Grades 9-12
Enrollment452 (2023-2024) [3]
Student to teacher ratio12.74 [3]
Campus type Suburban
Color(s) Blue and Gold [2]   
Slogan"Warrior Pride! Warrior Spirit!”
Fight song "Fight, Fight, Fight, for Mariemont!"
Athletics conference Cincinnati Hills League [2]
MascotWarrior
Team nameWarriors [2]
Rival Madeira High School and Wyoming High School
Accreditation North Central Association of Colleges and Schools [4]
Newspaper MHS Blueprint
Website Official Website

Mariemont High School is a public high school located in Mariemont, a suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio. It is the only high school in the Mariemont City School District. Mariemont High School is known for its high academic standards, and it has been named a Blue Ribbon School of Excellence four separate times: 1984-85, 1988–89, 2001–02, 2004-05. The school was the first to receive this award four times in the state of Ohio and the fourth nationwide. [5]

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History

The school was originally housed in the building that now holds Mariemont Elementary School. In 1970, a new school was constructed, designed by architects Baxter, Hodell, Donnelly and Preston. [6] A large portion of the building featured an open, modular design with hexagonal "pods" with department offices in the center. The pods had no walls or clearly defined borders between classrooms, no hallways, and no windows in class areas. Each pod was described to be equivalent to six standard classrooms. [7] Students were relatively free to move about within the pods. Subjects requiring seclusion, such as music, were in more traditional classrooms. [8]

The open design was soon found to make it difficult for students, with one staff member estimating that 20% of students could not function in the open, self-directed environment. Within a few years, bookcases and partitions were used to break up the pods into classroom-like areas, but in many cases it was still possible to hear adjacent classes. [9] [10]

In the 2018 midterm elections, the district passed a levy to renovate half of the school and completely rebuild the other. [11]

In 2024, a student at the school informed authorities that another student was planning a school shooting at the school, with encouragement from an out-of-state adult. A fourteen-year-old suspect was arrested and prosecutors plan to try them as an adult for conspiracy to commit aggravated murder. [12] Congressman Greg Landsman invited the student who raised the alarm to be his guest at that State of the Union address that March. [13]

Extra curricular

Music

Latin Club

Mariemont High School's Latin Club functions as a local chapter of both the Ohio Junior Classical League (OJCL) [14] and National Junior Classical League (NJCL). [15] In 2018, the freshmen Certamen team won the state championships at the intermediate level. [16]

Newspaper

The Mariemont Blueprint (Formerly The Warpath) is Mariemont High School's student newspaper. [17] Students enrolled in the MHS Journalism Class write articles for the paper.

Sports

Mariemont is member of the Cincinnati Hills League (CHL). The league consists of other small schools from the suburbs of Cincinnati. Mariemont offers 24 varsity sports.

Ohio High School Athletic Association State Championships

* Titles won by Plainville High School prior to consolidation into Mariemont.

Notable alumni

* Did not graduate due to enlistment in U.S Navy

References

  1. ↑ "History & Tradition".
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 OHSAA. "Ohio High School Athletic Association member directory". Archived from the original on November 3, 2010. Retrieved March 16, 2010.
  3. 1 2 3 "Mariemont High School". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved May 28, 2025.
  4. ↑ NCA-CASI. "NCA-Council on Accreditation and School Improvement". Archived from the original on April 16, 2010. Retrieved March 16, 2010.
  5. ↑ "Student Handbook 2010-11" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on July 22, 2011. Retrieved March 23, 2011.
  6. ↑ McCormick, Virginia Evans, Educational Architecture in Ohio: From One-room Schools and Carnegie Libraries to Community Education Villages, Kent, Ohio: Kent State University, 2001, ISBN   9780873386661, pp. 116, 253.
  7. ↑ Gwynn, Susan "Education at work in an open Environment", Council of Educational Facility Planners Journal, June 1975.
  8. ↑ Daglesh, Garvin, New ways to Learn, Cincinnati Magazine , March 1971.
  9. ↑ Deadrick, Lizzie Architectural Marvel:MHS [ usurped ]The Warpath 22 September 2011
  10. ↑ Kranz, Cindy "Schools restructure classrooms", Cincinnati Enquirer ; Cincinnati, Ohio [Cincinnati, Ohio]04 Nov 2002: B.1.
  11. ↑ "Mariemont school issue carries high stakes". WCPO. November 3, 2018. Retrieved October 11, 2020.
  12. ↑ Schramm, Molly, 'He would kill me as fast as possible': Teen speaks out after tipping police off to Mariemont HS shooting plot WCPO Feb 11, 2024
  13. ↑ Jordan, Felicia & Hart,Jessica Teen who alerted police to mass shooting plot at Mariemont attends Biden's State of the Union WCPO, Mar 06, 2024
  14. ↑ "2009 Convention – Club Point Summary" (PDF). Ohio Junior Classical League. 2009. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 16, 2023. Retrieved August 10, 2009.
  15. ↑ "Constitution of the Ohio Junior Classical League" (PDF). Ohio Junior Classical League. March 2008. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 16, 2023. Retrieved September 18, 2009. ...by paying both OJCL annual chapter dues and any annual chapter membership dues required by NJCL.
  16. ↑ "Mariemont Wins!". Twitter. Retrieved October 11, 2020.
  17. ↑ MHS Blueprint
  18. ↑ Dermer, Shelby (November 14, 2020). "High school boys soccer: Mariemont captures DIII state championship with win over Mooney". The Enquirer. Retrieved January 21, 2021.
  19. ↑ "Girls State Tournament History" (PDF). 2018.
  20. ↑ "Boys State Tournament History" (PDF). 2018.
  21. 1 2 OHSAA. "Ohio High School Athletic Association Web site" . Retrieved December 31, 2006.
  22. ↑ Yappi. "Yappi Sports Baseball". Archived from the original on March 8, 2007. Retrieved February 12, 2007.
  23. ↑ Potter, Andrew; Parker, Robert (1994). "Obituary: Karl Gordon Henize, 1926-1993". Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society. 26 (4): 1604. Bibcode:1994BAAS...26.1604P.
  24. ↑ "Attacked ambassador to S. Korea is Cincy native".
  25. ↑ "Mariemont grad Erik Swanson gets called up to Seattle Mariners".
  26. ↑ "Home".
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