Windham High School (Ohio)

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Windham Junior/Senior High School
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Windham Junior and Senior High School from the corner of Bauer Avenue and Main Street
Address
Windham High School (Ohio)
9530 Bauer Ave [1]

Windham
,
Ohio
44288

United States
Coordinates 41°13′59″N81°02′51″W / 41.232961°N 81.04743°W / 41.232961; -81.04743
Information
School type Public
Established1883 [2]
School district Windham Exempted Village School District [1]
SuperintendentAireane Curtis
CEEB code 365610 [3]
PrincipalDaniel Burns
Faculty9.8 (FTE) [4]
Grades9–12 [1]
Enrollment117 (2021–12)
Student to teacher ratio15.0 [4]
Color(s)Black and Vegas Gold
  
Athletics conferenceNortheastern Athletic Conference - Stripes Division
Team nameBombers
Rivals Garfield G-Men
Mathews Mustangs
YearbookTwin Pines
Website www.windham-schools.org/school_home.aspx?schoolid=1

Windham Junior/Senior High School is a public high school in Windham, Ohio, Portage County, Ohio It is the only high school in the Windham Exempted Village School District. Their mascot is the Bombers and compete as a member of the Ohio High School Athletic Association and is a member of the Northeastern Athletic Conference. Windham High School was founded in 1883. [2]

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Athletics

Windham High School currently offers:

History

The Bombers have at least one league championship in every sport in which they participate. During the late 1950s, the school played a leading role in establishing the short-lived Tomahawk Conference and was a longtime member of the former Portage County League and Portage Trail Conference.

In 1939, the school was ranked by The American Boy magazine as the 16th best in the nation for six-man football. This selection was made by Stephen Epler, the creator of what was then a fairly new sport. The Bombers defeated Stamford Collegiate Secondary School in Niagara Falls, Ontario for the first-ever international title on October 5, 1940, [5] and were ranked in the top 10 in the nation by The American Boy magazine. Three members of the team, Harold and Fred Stanley and Robert Turner, were chosen as All-American players, the only Windham players ever so honored.

Tomahawk Conference

According to the Ravenna-Kent Record-Courier , Windham competed in the Portage County League until 1953, when the Windham school district became the Windham Exempted Village School District. In Ohio, Exempted Village School Districts are given similar authority to city school districts; i.e. to "determine for itself the number of members and the organization of the district board of education". [6] At this time, Windham withdrew from the PCL and competed as an independent.

Prior to 1953, most schools in Portage County were given "A" classification in Ohio's system of measuring school size for athletics. Due to increasing enrollment from the construction of the Ravenna Arsenal a decade earlier, [2] Windham was close to "AA" classification. In 1957, Windham had an exceptional year in football, posting an undefeated record of six wins and a tie. In order to maintain "A" classification, Windham cut freshmen from the team at the beginning of the season. However, in contests against Garrettsville and Ravenna Township, football coach Leo Kot played two freshmen to prevent running up the score. These contests led directly to Windham's classification as "AA" upon appeal from Mogadore High School, and the subsequent formation of the Tomahawk Conference.

The Bombers won the Tomahawk Conference championship for football all three years of the conference's existence, sharing the title with Southeast in 1959. Windham also won all three conference titles in baseball, and in 1961 the Bombers were state runners-up, losing the state baseball championship to Liberty Union High School. [7]

Later athletics leagues

In 1961, the Bombers returned to the reconstituted Portage County League. Windham continued to enjoy success in football, and numerous other sports.

The PCL became the basis of the extant Portage Trail Conference, created through inter-county expansion in 2005. On July 2, 2011, Windham announced that it would be leaving the PTC following the 2012–13 school year and joining the Northeastern Athletic Conference, citing declining enrollment and a resulting decreasing ability to compete in the PTC. [8] In its first three years of competition, Windham won several league championships in volleyball and girls basketball.

Stan Parrish

Windham served as the first head coaching job for later college and professional football coach Stan Parrish. Parrish coached the Bombers from 1972 until 1974 after serving as an assistant from 1969–71. [9] [10]

Notable alumni

Notes and references

  1. 1 2 3 Retrieved from the interactive Ohio Educational Directory System (OEDS-R) on June 1, 2008
  2. 1 2 3 "History of the Windham Schools". Windham Exempted Village School District. 1998. Archived from the original on 2004-08-10. Retrieved 2008-05-22.
  3. ↑ College Board, High School SAT Code List Search. Retrieved June 1, 2008.
  4. 1 2 "Windham High School". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved August 3, 2020.
  5. ↑ Harris, Colin (2008-04-02). "An all-world salute". Record-Courier . Kent and Ravenna, Ohio: Dix Communications . Retrieved 2008-05-01.
  6. ↑ "The Ohio Constitution". 127th Ohio General Assembly . Retrieved 2008-06-01. Provision shall be made by law for the organization, administration and control of the public school system of the state supported by public funds: provided, that each school district embraced wholly or in part within any city shall have the power by referendum vote to determine for itself the number of members and the organization of the district board of education, and provision shall be made by law for the exercise of this power by such school districts.
  7. ↑ Yappi. "Yappi Sports Baseball" . Retrieved 2008-06-01.
  8. ↑ Harris, Colin (July 2, 2011). "Windham waves goodbye to the PTC". Record Courier. Retrieved July 15, 2011.
  9. ↑ McKeever, Curt (2007-09-22). "Ball State assistant has seen highs and lows during long career" . Retrieved 2008-06-10.
  10. ↑ Stan Parrish profile at ballstatesports.com. Accessed June 10, 2008

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