Northwest High School (McDermott, Ohio)

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Northwest High School
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Location
Northwest High School (McDermott, Ohio)
914 Mohawk Drive
McDermott, Ohio

United States
Coordinates 38°52′46″N83°05′04″W / 38.879341°N 83.084551°W / 38.879341; -83.084551
Information
Type public, rural, high school
Established1958
School districtNorthwest Local School District
PrincipalRick Scarberry
Head of schoolTodd Jenkins, Superintendent
Grades9–12
Number of students355 (2023-2024) [1]
Color(s)Red and blue    [2]
Athleticsbaseball, boys' and girls' basketball, boys' and girls' cross country, football, boys' and girls' golf, boys' soccer, fast pitch softball, boys' and girls' swimming, boys' and girls' track, and volleyball [2]
Athletics conference Southern Ohio Conference [2]
Mascot Mohawks [2]
Website District Website

Northwest High School (NHS) is a public high school in McDermott, Ohio in Scioto County in Southern Ohio. It is the only high school in the Northwest Local School District. The school mascot is the Mohawks and their school colors are red, white and blue.

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History

Future governor of Ohio, Ted Strickland was part of the class of 1959. While governor of Ohio, Strickland spoke at the school, and told students to "remember their rural roots". [3]

As of 2022, less than half of seniors who graduate go on to attend college. [4] [5]

Athletics

There are ten school districts and eleven high schools in Scioto County along with one parochial school as well several private and community schools. [6] The school's athletic affiliation is with the Ohio High School Athletic Association (OHSAA) and the Southern Ohio Conference (SOC), which has seventeen member schools and is divided into two divisions (SOC I & SOC II) based on the schools' enrollment. The SOC includes teams from four different Ohio counties - Jackson County (Oak Hill High School), Lawrence County (Saint Joseph Central High School and Symmes Valley High School), Pike County (Waverly High School, Eastern High School, and Western High School), and Scioto County (Clay High School, Green High School, Glenwood High School, Sciotoville Community School, Valley High School, Northwest High School, Minford High School, Portsmouth West High School, Notre Dame High School, South Webster High School, and Wheelersburg High School). [7]

See also Ohio High School Athletic Conferences and the Southern Ohio Conference

Notable alumni

Notable Coaches

References

  1. ↑ "Northwest High School". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved March 18, 2019.
  2. 1 2 3 4 OHSAA. "OHSAA Member School Info" . Retrieved 2007-06-22.
  3. ↑ "Strickland tells grads at alma mater to remember their roots". The Blade. 2007-05-29. p. 4. Retrieved 2025-09-22.
  4. ↑ "College (cont. from "A Distant Dream")". Chillicothe Gazette. 2022-03-13. pp. A5. Retrieved 2025-09-22.
  5. ↑ Doyle, Sheridan Hendrix and Céilí. "'It feels like a bigger wall': For some rural Ohio students, college is a distant dream". The Columbus Dispatch. Retrieved 2025-09-22.
  6. ↑ Ohio Department of Development. "Ohio County Profiles: Scioto County" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-05-08. Retrieved 2007-05-11.
  7. ↑ Southern Ohio Conference (January 2007). "Southern Ohio Conference Constitution and By-laws".
  8. ↑ OHSAA. "OHSAA 30th Annual State Fast Pitch Softball Tournament Program". p. 39.
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