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| Grove City High School | |
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4665 Hoover Road , , 43123
United States
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| Coordinates | 39°52′10″N 83°04′20″W / 39.8695°N 83.07229°W / 39.8695; -83.07229 |
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| Type | Public, Coeducational high school |
| Established | 1970 |
| School district | South-Western City Schools |
| Authority | 107 teachers, 38 classified staff members, and four administrators |
| Superintendent | Bill Wise[1] |
| Principal | Bryan O'Shea |
| Teaching staff | 93.46 (FTE)[2] |
| Grades | 9-12 |
| Enrollment | 1,897 (2018-19)[2] |
| Student to teacher ratio | 20.30[2] |
| Color(s) | Crimson & Blue[3] |
| Athletics conference | Ohio Capital Conference[3] |
| Team name | Greyhound |
| Accreditation | North Central Association of Colleges and Schools[4] |
| Newspaper | Newshound |
| Website | School Website |
Grove City High School is a high school in Grove City, Ohio, United States. It is one of the five high schools in the South-Western City Schools district. It houses about 1,900 students in grades 9-12. Formerly Jackson High School, Grove City High School moved from the former Park Street building in 1970, where it had been located since 1929. Grove City High School was chartered in the fall of 1895. The average classroom experience of GCHS teachers is 15.89 years. 46 teachers have bachelor's degrees and 63 have master's degrees or beyond. Special training has included TESA, Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) training, site-based leadership training, integrated learning, alternative assessment, and alternative classroom management. Grove City High School has been A School Of Excellence for five years now.
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The Grove City High School instrumental music program has over 300 wind, percussion, and string musicians who participate in various performing groups. These groups include the Marching Band, Symphonic Band, Concert Bands, Jazz Bands, Concert Orchestra, Symphony Orchestra, and Percussion Ensemble. There is also a Color Guard that is part of the Marching Band as well as participates in Winter Guard competitions.
The Grove City High School Marching Band has received over 30 Grand Champion awards over the last ten years in OMEA competitions. The band received superior ratings at the OMEA State Marching Band Contest every year since the contest's inception in 1980 until the fall of 2009 when repeated school levy failures resulted in the cancellation of all extracurricular activities, including marching band.[5]
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Highlights for the Symphonic Band:
Performed at the 50th Anniversary of the Mid-West International Band and Orchestra Clinic in Chicago, Illinois on December 19, 1996. Invited to perform at the MidwestClinic again in 2002. Performed at the 1993 and 2001 OMEA State Convention and was the clinician band for the composer Francis McBeth at the 1995 OMEA State Convention, as well as for Mark Kelly in 1989. Guest band for the Directors' Clinic at Miami University with Donald Hunsburger of the Eastman School of Music and H. Robert Reynolds from the University of Michigan.
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Education in Franklin County, Ohio
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