Ashland High School | |
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Address | |
1440 King Road Ashland, Ohio, (Ashland County) 44805 United States |
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Coordinates | 40°51′12″N 82°19′26″W / 40.85333°N 82.32389°WCoordinates: 40°51′12″N 82°19′26″W / 40.85333°N 82.32389°W |
Information | |
Type | Public |
Superintendent | Douglas J. Marrah |
Principal | Mike Riley |
Grades | 9–12 |
Color(s) | Black and Orange |
Athletics conference | Ohio Cardinal Conference |
Mascot | Arrows |
Team name | Arrows |
Rival | Lexington Minutemen |
Newspaper | Panorama |
Athletic Director | Jason Goings |
Website | School Website |
Ashland High School (AHS) is the only high school of the Ashland City School District of Ashland, Ohio.
Ashland High School (AHS) is a school of around 1,200 students. Class offerings include 3 foreign languages (Spanish, French, and Latin), a post secondary program and several Advanced Placement (A.P.) courses (including A.P. Chemistry, A.P. Biology, A.P. Calculus, A.P. U.S. History, A.P. Statistics, A.P. English, A.P. Government, and A.P. Environmental Science), as well as a music program which includes 3 Choirs (Concert, Symphonic, and A Capella), two concert bands (concert band and symphonic band), a marching band, two jazz bands, and an orchestra. Ashland High School also publishes the Panorama, a weekly newspaper which has won national awards several times.
One of the more noted annual events is the spring musical. Recent productions include Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Beauty and the Beast, Damn Yankees, Oliver!, Grease, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, Curtains, Cinderella, Elton Johns and Tim Rices Aida, and George Gershwins and Ira Gershwins Crazy for You, which took place in February 2014.
As of August 2015, the principal of AHS is Mike Riley. The school teams are called the "Ashland Arrows" and school colors are orange and black.
Ashland High School has a long tradition in sports, especially baseball, basketball, soccer, volleyball, track and field, football and golf. The boys varsity golf teams have the only state championships recorded in school history, in 1962 and 1998. The boys and girls golf teams advanced to the OHSAA Division 1 State Golf Championships in 2008 and the girls team returned to the championships in 2009 where senior Rachel Thompson received medalist runner-up honors.