Wooster High School (Ohio)

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Wooster High School
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Location
Wooster High School (Ohio)
515 Oldman Road

Wooster
,
Ohio
44691

United States
Coordinates 40°50′14″N81°56′47″W / 40.837227°N 81.946526°W / 40.837227; -81.946526
Information
Type Public, Co-Ed
MottoInspiring World-Class Academic Achievement
School districtWooster City School District
School number365630
PrincipalScott Musser
Teaching staff60.63 (FTE) [1]
Grades 8–12
Enrollment1,165 (2023-2024) [1]
Student to teacher ratio19.21 [1]
LanguageEnglish
Color(s)Blue & Gold   
Athletics conference Ohio Cardinal Conference
Nickname Generals
Rival Orrville Red Riders, Ashland Arrows
NewspaperThe Wooster Blade
YearbookThe Legacy
Website woostercityschools.org/hs

Wooster High School is a public high school in Wooster, Ohio, United States. It is the only high school in the Wooster City School District. The mascot/nickname of the school is the Generals, named after American Revolutionary War General David Wooster.

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Wooster's football rivalry with the Orrville High School Red Riders is the oldest rivalry in Wayne County, having first met back in 1903. The Generals currently lead the rivalry by a 52-42-9 margin. [2] After the 2014 season, the teams have met 104 times.

State championships

Athletics

Wooster High School has 26 athletic teams, of which 12 are for boys, 13 are for girls, and 1 is Co-Ed which compete in the Ohio Cardinal Conference of the Ohio High School Athletic Association. Wooster's teams are dubbed the "Generals". [4]

Boys' Sports


Girls' Sports


Co-Ed

Awards

Wooster has received recognition for having appeared the most times at national speech and debate tournaments, with sixty-three appearances since the early 1930s. [5] The Wooster High School Speech and Debate team was crowned state champions by the OHSSL in 2001, 2002, 2006 and 2015.

Wooster is the first school district in the state of Ohio to launch an inter-scholastic adaptive sports team for students with physical disabilities. The Wooster Generals wheelchair basketball teams won the first five Ohio Interscholastic Adaptive Sports state championships, and had a 59-game winning streak from 2016 to 2022. Team alumnus Evan Heller (class of 2020) went on to play for Auburn University and the USA under-20 national team.

Notable alumni

References

  1. 1 2 3 Wooster High School
  2. ↑ Vasas, Michale Paul (1989). A History of Wayne County Football 1899 to 1988. Collier Printing Company of Wooster, OH.
  3. ↑ "Ohio High School Athletic Association". Ohio High School Athletic Association . Retrieved December 31, 2006.
  4. ↑ "WHS General Athletics". WoosterCitySchools.org - July 2002. Wooster City Schools. 2005. Retrieved August 28, 2012. ... Wooster City School District: Inspiring World-Class Academic Achievement.
  5. ↑ Wooster High School. "Speech Team Nationals Results" . Retrieved June 28, 2010.

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Official website

  1. ↑ "Our History". Wooster High School Speech and Debate. Retrieved May 13, 2017.
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