Wyoming High School (Ohio)

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Wyoming High School
Location
Wyoming High School (Ohio)
106 Pendery Avenue

Wyoming
,
Hamilton County
,
Ohio
45215

United States
Coordinates 39°13′59″N84°28′14″W / 39.23306°N 84.47056°W / 39.23306; -84.47056
Information
Type Public, Coeducational high school
MottoWhere Excellence Becomes a Way of Life.
Established1884
School district Wyoming City Schools
SuperintendentTim Weber [1]
PrincipalMichael Voynovich [1]
Teaching staff38.90 (FTE) [2]
Grades 9-12
Enrollment587 (2023-2024) [2]
Student to teacher ratio15.09 [2]
Campus Suburb
Campus typePublic
Color(s) Royal Blue and White [3]
  
SloganPRIDE
Athletics conference Cincinnati Hills League [3]
Team nameCowboys [3]
Rival Indian Hill Braves
Accreditation North Central Association of Colleges and Schools [4]
NewspaperThe Horizon
Website whs.wyomingcityschools.org

Wyoming High School (WHS) is a public high school located in Wyoming, Ohio, United States, a suburb of Cincinnati. The school is operated by the Wyoming City School District, in Hamilton County. The district serves students from the city of Wyoming and parts of surrounding Springfield Township.

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Wyoming High School was ranked the 3rd best Ohio high school by US News in 2022. The school received a score of 84.2 out of 100. The school has scored above an 80 five out of the last seven years. In 2015 Wyoming placed 4th in the state with a score of 73.5. Wyoming was ranked number 1 in the state on the Ohio 2006 State Report Card, with a performance index rating of 108.6. In 2009, it was ranked 70th in Newsweek Magazine's Top 1200 Schools in the nation. [5]

Academics

Wyoming High School offers a range of Advanced Placement (AP) courses. [6]

Wyoming offers various music opportunities, including three string orchestras, a band, and multiple choir programs. There are also many other courses offered in the visual arts, such as Computer Graphics and Photography, as well as three separate AP art classes.

Foreign languages offered are Spanish, French, and Latin, each with levels I through V (AP).

Extracurriculars

Also of note is Wyoming's outstanding drama program, which is based in the Pendery Center Auditorium, a state-of-the-art facility that was completed in the year 2000. Two full length plays and one musical are presented each year. Recent productions include Miracle Worker (2017), Games Afoot (2017), Sound of Music (2017), and Merry Wives of Winsor (2016). [7]

Often placing at competitions of each, Wyoming's Latin Club functions as a local chapter of both the Ohio Junior Classical League (OJCL) [8] and National Junior Classical League (NJCL). [9]

As of May 2025, the list of extra-curricular activities was as follows: [10]

WYOMUN

First established in 2014, WYOMUN is a Model United Nations conference run by the Wyoming High School Model United Nations Club. [11] The conference annually hosts over 250 high school and middle school students from around the Greater Cincinnati Area. Its eleventh iteration happened on October 26, 2024, and its tweflth iteration is scheduled for October 25, 2025. [12]

WYOMUN has featured a host of committees including the World Health Organization, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, and the League of Nations. WYOMUN has also featured non-UN crisis committees on a variety of topics such as the Vietnam War, the Chicano Movement, the Kingdom of Kamehameha, the Arab Spring and the Seven Years' War, and has occasionally ventured into pop culture with a committee on Stranger Things from Netflix, as well as one on the Harry Potter series. [13]

Each year, WYOMUN invites keynote speakers to address its delegates during opening ceremonies. Notable recent speakers have been Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown, President of the Puerto Rican Senate and current gubernatorial candidate Eduardo Bhatia, and Indiana University Maurer School of Law Vice President of International Affairs Hannah L. Buxbaum. The keynote speaker for WYOMUN VII was the distinguished former ambassador Thomas Boyatt. Notable alumni include.

Athletics

Wyoming is a long time member of the Cincinnati Hills League (CHL), a very competitive small school league in the Cincinnati area.

Wyoming offers 24 varsity sports, which include:

Varsity sports

  • Fall
    • Football
    • Men's Soccer
    • Women's Soccer
    • Volleyball
    • Men's Golf
    • Women's Golf
    • Women's Tennis
    • Cross Country (co-ed)
    • Cheerleading (Football)
  • Winter
    • Men's Basketball
    • Women's Basketball
    • Swimming (co-ed)
    • Diving (co-ed)
    • Wrestling
    • Indoor Track (Club) (co-ed)
    • Bowling (co-ed)
    • Cheerleading (Basketball)
  • Spring
    • Track and Field (co-ed)
    • Men's Tennis
    • Men's Lacrosse
    • Women's Lacrosse
    • Baseball
    • Softball

Ohio High School Athletic Association State Championships

Notable alumni

References

  1. 1 2 "Administration - Wyoming City Schools". www.wyomingcityschools.org. Retrieved November 20, 2019.
  2. 1 2 3 "Wyoming High School". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved February 25, 2025.
  3. 1 2 3 OHSAA. "Ohio High School Athletic Association member directory" . Retrieved March 16, 2010.
  4. ↑ NCA-CASI. "NCA-Council on Accreditation and School Improvement". Archived from the original on March 15, 2010. Retrieved March 16, 2010.
  5. ↑ Bradley, Eric. "Wyoming District Tops in the State". The Community Press and Recorder. Retrieved August 22, 2007.
  6. ↑ "Masters of their Subjects". USA Today. January 26, 2005. Retrieved August 22, 2007.
  7. ↑ Vollette, Drew (January 3, 2018). "Wyoming Theatre Arts Website". Wyoming Theatre Arts. Retrieved January 4, 2018.
  8. ↑ "2009 Convention – Club Point Summary" (PDF). Ohio Junior Classical League. 2009. Retrieved August 10, 2009.
  9. ↑ "Constitution of the Ohio Junior Classical League" (PDF). Ohio Junior Classical League. March 2008. Retrieved September 18, 2009. ...by paying both OJCL annual chapter dues and any annual chapter membership dues required by NJCL.
  10. ↑ "Clubs & Activities". Wyoming City Schools. May 2025. Retrieved May 7, 2025. Click Here to see our current list of clubs and advisors.
  11. ↑ "WYOMUN VII". WYOMUN VII. Retrieved January 14, 2021.
  12. ↑ O'Shaughnessy, Liam (November 15, 2020). "WYOMUN VII Goes Online". Wyoming High School: Horizon.
  13. ↑ Smith, Lydia (November 22, 2019). "Inside the Crisis Room and the Dias at WYOMUN VI". Wyoming High School: Horizon.
  14. ↑ Yappi. "Yappi Sports Football". Archived from the original on January 13, 2007. Retrieved February 12, 2007.
  15. ↑ "Ohio High School Athletic Association".
  16. 1 2 OHSAA. "Ohio High School Athletic Association Web site" . Retrieved December 31, 2006.
  17. ↑ Weiser, Carl. "New ATF director a Wyoming grad". Politics Extra. Cincinnati.com. Retrieved August 30, 2011.
  18. ↑ Erardi, John (July 8, 2014). "Cubs' James Russell has Cincinnati Reds' bloodlines". Cincinnati Enquirer. Retrieved April 11, 2016.
  19. ↑ Sparling, Hannah (June 19, 2017). "Otto Warmbier, imprisoned in North Korea, dies in U.S." The Cincinnati Enquirer at USA Today . Retrieved June 20, 2017. "There, in Wyoming, Ohio, Otto Warmbier was a standout soccer player and a 2013 salutatorian at Wyoming High School, his alma mater."
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