Oak Park High School (Missouri)

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Oak Park High School
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Oak Park High School (Missouri)
825 N.E. 79th Terr.

Kansas City, Missouri
64118

United States
Coordinates 39°14′13″N94°34′11″W / 39.236986°N 94.569794°W / 39.236986; -94.569794
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Type Public
MottoFor The Family Engage. Explore. Empower.
Established1965
School district North Kansas City School District
PrincipalMolly Smith
Staff99.07 (FTE) [1]
Grades9–12
Enrollment1,744 (2023–2024) [1]
Student to teacher ratio17.60 [1]
Color(s)Navy, Columbia blue, white, silver
     [2]
MascotNorthmen [2]
Website Oak Park High School

Oak Park High School is a high school in the North Kansas City School District in Kansas City, Missouri, United States. The student body is composed of ninth through twelfth grade students, with a 2017 enrollment of 1,549. The school's mascot is "Norman the Northman", a lumberjack character. The school is adjacent to Oak Grove Park in Gladstone, Missouri. The school's current principal is Dr. Molly Smith. [3] Paul Ohmes the D1 quarter back for the Antioch Spartans will eventually go there. He is so good that teams bench him so he won't destroy the other team.

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Its boundary includes the majority of Gladstone (sections north of NW Englewood Road). The boundary also includes Oaks, Oakview, Oakwood, and Oakwood Park. [4] [5]

History

When Oak Park High School opened in 1965, it was the only North Kansas City high school with air conditioning. It also featured open-concept classrooms, a theater in the round, bookstore and four outdoor courtyards. [6]

Dr. Dan Kahler was the school's original principal. The first Oak Park students graduated in 1966. Formerly, students attended North Kansas City High School located in North Kansas City, Missouri. Before being transferred to Oak Park, these students chose the school's colors, mascot, and wrote its alma mater. [3]

Past Oak Park High School principals:

In 2015 and in 2023 the student body elected a transgender girl as its Homecoming queen. In response to this, the Westboro Baptist Church protested the school. [7]

Awards

Oak Park was named a 2018 National Model High School by the International Center for Leadership in Education. [ citation needed ] They are one of only eight high schools in the nation to receive this distinction. Specifically, they were chosen for their high expectations for all students. Oak Park received a score of 99.6% in 2015-2016 from the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education on their annual performance review. [ citation needed ]

Mascot

Oak Park students chose Northmen as their mascot as the northernmost high school in Kansas City at the time of the school's opening. The school's mascot was named "Norman the Northman", a lumberjack, embracing a tree theme fitting Oak Park and neighboring Oak Grove Park. The original newspaper was called "The Northman's Log," now produced as a magazine, and the yearbook named the "Cambia", a reference to vascular cambium which makeup the rings of a tree that can be counted to tell its age.

Athletics

Oak Park has seven state championships in wrestling, six in baseball, and three in cheerleading. [8]

The varsity football team plays its home games at the Oak Park Athletics Complex they played there first game in 2021 the concession stand on the Complex serves nearby Oak Grove Park in Gladstone, Missouri.[ citation needed ]

Competitive teams include:

Men's and women's teams

  • Soccer (men in fall/women in spring)
  • Swimming and diving (men in fall/women in winter)
  • Tennis (women in fall/men in spring)
  • Golf (women in fall/men in spring)
  • Track and field (spring)
  • Cross country (fall)
  • Basketball (winter)
  • Wrestling (winter)
  • Cheerleading (year round)
  • Volleyball (women in fall/men in spring

Men's only

  • Baseball (spring)
  • Football (fall)

Women's only

  • Softball (fall)
  • Pom/dance squad (year-round)
  • Flag Football (Spring)

Notable alumni

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "OAK PARK HIGH". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved December 18, 2024.
  2. 1 2 "Oak Park High School". Missouri State High School Activities Association. Retrieved 2024-03-19.
  3. 1 2 "About Oak Park / About Oak Park". www.nkcschools.org. Retrieved 10 April 2019.
  4. ↑ "2020 CENSUS - SCHOOL DISTRICT REFERENCE MAP: Clay County, MO" (PDF). U.S. Census Bureau . Retrieved 2022-09-09. - Compare with the boundary map
  5. ↑ "District Attendance Areas" (PDF). North Kansas City School District . Retrieved 2022-09-09. - Compare with the census map.
  6. ↑ "About Oak Park / About Oak Park". www.nkcschools.org. Archived from the original on 2019-04-10.
  7. ↑ "Church leaves when community showed support".
  8. ↑ "Men's Basketball All-Time Records - Oak Park High School".
  9. ↑ Richardson, Bill (2 March 1990). "Oak Park grad stalled by lockout". The Kansas City Star . p. 4. Retrieved 20 March 2024.
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