Wheelersburg High School
| Wheelersburg High School | |
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701 Pirate Drive Wheelersburg, Ohio, United States |
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| Coordinates | 38°43′20″N 82°50′48″W / 38.7222222°N 82.8466667°W |
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| Type | (Ohio) public, rural, high school |
| School district | Wheelersburg Local School District |
| Principal | Chris Porter, Principal Jerod Shaw, Asstistant Principal & Athletic Director |
| Head of school | Mark Knapp, Superintendent |
| Grades | 9-12 |
| Color(s) |
Orange & Black |
| Athletics | baseball, boys' and girls' basketball, boys' and girls' cross country, boys' golf, boys' soccer, fast pitch softball, boys' and girls' swimming, boys' and girls' tennis, boys' and girls' track, and girls' volleyball |
| Athletics conference | Southern Ohio Conference - Division II |
| Mascot | Pirates |
| Website | www |
Wheelersburg High School (WHS) is a public high school in Wheelersburg, Scioto County, Ohio. It is the only high school in the Wheelersburg Local School District, which is located in Porter Township along the northern bank of the Ohio River in Southern Ohio. Wheelersburg's mascot is the Pirates and their school colors are orange and black.
The district is bordered by the Bloom-Vernon Local School District and the Minford Local School District to the north along Ohio 140, the Green Local School District to the east along U.S. 52 and Ohio 522 (before entering Lawrence County), and the Portsmouth City School District to the west.
Students entered a new K-12 academic building during the 2008-2009 school year.
Wheelersburg High School won the Ohio Academic Competition in 1985 and 1986. The school also won the 1984 National Academic Championship.
For the past five years, the Wheelersburg High School has received an "Excellent" rating on the State of Ohio's Local Report Card.
There are ten school districts and eleven high schools in Scioto County along with one parochial school as well as several private and community schools. The school's athletic affiliation is with the Ohio High School Athletic Association (OHSAA) and the Southern Ohio Conference (SOC), which has sixteen member schools and is divided into two divisions (SOC I & SOC II) based on the schools' enrollment. The SOC includes teams from four different Ohio counties - Jackson County (Oak Hill High School), Lawrence County (Symmes Valley High School), Pike County (Waverly High School, Eastern High School, and Western High School), and Scioto County (Clay High School, Green High School, Glenwood High School, Sciotoville Community School, Valley High School, Northwest High School, Minford High School, Portsmouth West High School, Notre Dame High School, South Webster High School, and Wheelersburg High School).
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