North College Hill High School
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North College Hill High School is a Public
High school in North College Hill, Ohio
. It is the only high school in the North College Hill City Schools district and has an enrollment of approximately 400 to 450 students.
athletic teams, known as the Trojans, in nine sports. The school is a member of the Ohio High School Athletic Association
and the Miami Valley Conference
.
The school has earned the following State Championships:
Becker, Clovernook and Goodman Elementary Schools closed at the end of the 2009-2010 school year. In their place, North College Hill Elementary School houses all district students in preschool through grade four. The former Goodman Elementary School building is now the District Office, as well as home to the Passages art gallery and the North College Hill Historical Society.
Public education
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High school in North College Hill, Ohio
North College Hill, Ohio
North College Hill is a city in Hamilton County in the southwestern part of the U.S. state of Ohio approximately ten miles north of downtown Cincinnati. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 9,397...
. It is the only high school in the North College Hill City Schools district and has an enrollment of approximately 400 to 450 students.
Athletics
North College Hill fields 12 VarsityVarsity team
In the United States and Canada, varsity sports teams are the principal athletic teams representing a college, university, high school or other secondary school. Such teams compete against the principal athletic teams at other colleges/universities, or in the case of secondary schools, against...
athletic teams, known as the Trojans, in nine sports. The school is a member of the Ohio High School Athletic Association
Ohio High School Athletic Association
The Ohio High School Athletic Association is the governing body of athletic programs for junior and senior high schools in the state of Ohio...
and the Miami Valley Conference
Miami Valley Conference
The Miami Valley Conference, or MVC, is an athletic conference within the Ohio High School Athletic Association consisting of ten member teams from the Greater Cincinnati area.-Membership:The following schools are members of the MVC:...
.
The school has earned the following State Championships:
- Division III Boys BasketballBasketballBasketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
– 2005, 2006, 2007
New buildings for district
In the November 2007 election, residents of North College Hill School District voted in favor of a bond issue to allow the district to build three new school buildings — elementary, middle school and high school — scheduled for completion during the 2010-11 school year.Becker, Clovernook and Goodman Elementary Schools closed at the end of the 2009-2010 school year. In their place, North College Hill Elementary School houses all district students in preschool through grade four. The former Goodman Elementary School building is now the District Office, as well as home to the Passages art gallery and the North College Hill Historical Society.
Notable alumni
- Lou GroenLou GroenLou Groen of Cincinnati, Ohio is famous for inventing the Filet-O-Fish sandwich in 1962. He invented the sandwich at his floundering McDonald's restaurant to satisfy his customers. At the time, most of his customers were Roman Catholic who had to abstain from eating meat on Friday...
(Class of 1935) -- McDonald'sMcDonald'sMcDonald's Corporation is the world's largest chain of hamburger fast food restaurants, serving around 64 million customers daily in 119 countries. Headquartered in the United States, the company began in 1940 as a barbecue restaurant operated by the eponymous Richard and Maurice McDonald; in 1948...
restaurant owner; creator of the Filet-O-FishFilet-O-FishThe Filet-O-Fish is a fish sandwich sold by the international fast food chain store McDonald's.-Product description:...
sandwich - Richard Hesterberg (Class of 1953) -- LepidopteristLepidopteristA lepidopterist is a person who specialises in the study of Lepidoptera, members of an order encompassing moths and the three superfamilies of butterflies, skipper butterflies, and moth-butterflies...
who discovered the species Adelpha hesterbergi, which is named for him. Collector/curator, Costa RicaCosta RicaCosta Rica , officially the Republic of Costa Rica is a multilingual, multiethnic and multicultural country in Central America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, Panama to the southeast, the Pacific Ocean to the west and the Caribbean Sea to the east....
National Museum; Director of Animal Operations, Cypress GardensCypress GardensCypress Gardens was an American theme park near Winter Haven, Florida, that operated from 1936 to 2009.-History:Billed as Florida's first commercial tourist theme park, Cypress Gardens opened on January 2, 1936 as a botanical garden planted by Dick Pope Sr. and his wife Julie...
. - Dwayne Crutchfield (Class of 1978) -- former Iowa State UniversityIowa State CyclonesThe Iowa State Cyclones are the athletic teams of Iowa State University. The university is a member of the Big 12 Conference and competes in NCAA Division I, fielding 16 varsity teams in 12 sports.*Men's sports...
and National Football LeagueNational Football LeagueThe National Football League is the highest level of professional American football in the United States, and is considered the top professional American football league in the world. It was formed by eleven teams in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association, with the league changing...
player - Jill Casagrande (Class of 1979) -- former Senior VP of Programming/Worldwide Programming, Disney ChannelDisney ChannelDisney Channel is an American basic cable and satellite television network, owned by the Disney-ABC Television Group division of The Walt Disney Company. It is under the direction of Disney-ABC Television Group President Anne Sweeney. The channel's headquarters is located on West Alameda Ave. in...
; former Senior VP and General Manager, Radio DisneyRadio DisneyRadio Disney is a radio network based in Burbank, California and headquartered out of the Disney Channel headquarters on West Alameda Ave., from where it has been based since November 2008. Prior to that, the network was based in Dallas, Texas... - Bill WalkerBill Walker (basketball)William "Bill" Henry Walker is an American professional basketball player with the New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association...
(Class of 2006) -- former Kansas State UniversityKansas State WildcatsKansas State University's athletic teams are called the Wildcats. The official color of the teams is Royal Purple, making Kansas State one of very few schools that have only one official color; white and silver are generally used as complementary colors.Kansas State participates in...
basketball player and current New York KnicksNew York KnicksThe New York Knickerbockers, prominently known as the Knicks, are a professional basketball team based in New York City. They are part of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference in the National Basketball Association...
player - O. J. MayoO. J. MayoOvinton J'Anthony "O. J." Mayo , is an American basketball player currently playing with the Memphis Grizzlies of the NBA. He signed with the team on July 8, 2008. He played college basketball for the University of Southern California...
* -- former University of Southern CaliforniaUSC TrojansThe USC Trojans are the athletic teams representing the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California. While the men's teams are nicknamed the Trojans, the women's athletic teams are referred to as either the Trojans or Women of Troy...
basketball player and current Memphis GrizzliesMemphis GrizzliesThe Memphis Grizzlies are a professional basketball team based in Memphis, Tennessee, USA. The team is part of the Southwest Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association . Along with the Toronto Raptors, the Grizzlies were established in 1995 as part of the NBA's...
player
- *Transferred to Huntington High School (West Virginia)Huntington High School (West Virginia)Huntington High School is a four year high school located on top of a hill just outside of Huntington, West Virginia. It was established in 1996 through the consolidation of the old Huntington and Huntington East High Schools. The school has a student body of approximately 1600 students. Huntington...
for Senior year.