- Oakwood High School
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Oakwood High School 
Address 1200 Far Hills Ave.
Dayton, Ohio 45419, USAInformation Type Public Secondary Established 1908 Superintendent Dr. Mary Jo Scalzo Principal Paul Waller Grades 9-12 Number of students 672 (Apprx) Color(s) Blue and Gold Mascot Lumberjack Website Oakwood Website Oakwood High School is part of the Oakwood City School District, Montgomery County, Ohio. The school is located in Oakwood, Ohio, and serves approximately 650 students. The school mascot is the Lumberjacks, though female teams for the school are usually referred to as "Lady Jacks" or just "Jills". Oakwood was named "A National School of Excellence" by the U.S. Department of Education in 1991. In 2007, the class of 2009 scored the highest out of any other class in the state on the Ohio Graduation Test (OGT), earning first place. The Classes of 2010 and 2012 repeated this feat.[1]
For the 2008-2009 school year, the Ohio Department of Education rated Oakwood as "Excellent with Distinction" scoring 108.7 (of 120 possible points) on its performance index. Oakwood satisfied all 30 of the state educational indicators for the school year[2]. Additionally, Newsweek in 2009 ranked Oakwood as the 281st best public high school in the nation.
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Clubs and activities
Latin Club
The school's Latin Club functions as a local chapter of both the Ohio Junior Classical League (OJCL)[3] and National Junior Classical League (NJCL).[4]
Tech Team
The school's Tech Team has been in existence since 2005 and joined the Technology Student Association in 2008, becoming the first chapter in the Dayton, Ohio area. They have since competed in the BotsIQ competition with a small, wedge-style robot named Mortal Kombot.
Ohio High School Athletic Association State Championships
Further information: Ohio High School Athletic Association- Boys Baseball – 1997[5]
- Boys Golf – 1985, 2009, 2010[6]
- Boys Track and Field – 1929, 1930, 1931[6]
- Girls Tennis - 2005
Notable alumni
- Rob Lowe
- Althea Harper
- Edward Higgins White
References
- ^ "2007 OGT Results". ode.state.oh.us/proficiency_reports/ogt. Ohio Department of Education. http://webapp1.ode.state.oh.us/proficiency_reports/ogt/csvtoasp.asp?filename=March_2007_OGT_Public.csv&county=montgomery&Go=Go.
- ^ "2008 Report Card". ode.state.oh.us/reportcard. Ohio Department of Education. http://www.ode.state.oh.us/reportcardfiles/2008-2009/DIST/044586.pdf.
- ^ "Executive Board Pre-File Application". OhioJCL.org - June 2007. Internet Archive: Wayback Machine. 2010. Archived from the original on June 17, 2007. http://web.archive.org/web/20070617024347/http://ohiojcl.org/prefile.shtml. Retrieved August 16, 2010.
- ^ "OJCL Constitution". OhioJCL.org - July 2002. Internet Archive: Wayback Machine. 2010. Archived from the original on July 21, 2002. http://web.archive.org/web/20020721140258/http://www.ohiojcl.org/resources/constitution.html#c31. Retrieved August 16, 2010. "... by paying both OJCL annual chapter dues and any annual chapter membership dues required by NJCL."
- ^ Yappi. "Yappi Sports Baseball". http://www.yappi.com/baseball/StateChamps.html. Retrieved 2007-02-12.
- ^ a b OHSAA. "Ohio High School Athletic Association Web site". http://www.ohsaa.org/. Retrieved 2006-12-31.
External links
Categories:- High schools in Dayton, Ohio
- Dayton-Springfield-Greenville school stubs
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