Commonly mislocated schools
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Mackinbiner
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Sorry, but this is full of misinformation.
Washington, Perry, Jackson, and Tuslaw are all 4 separate, distinct school districts. And none of them, technically, have the name Massillon attached to them other than what the OHSAA does in giving them a clarifying name using mailing address. The closest to having Massillon as part of its name is Washington High School which is part of Massillon City School District.
bluepride1990
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Sorry I got in a hurry as I meant to say Not part of the same district and have corrected.
Sykotyk
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Technically, to correct an earlier post, every school is listed like :
Steubenville Steubenville
According to the ohsaa school list. It's just repetitive names get shortened. But every school goes by zip code city and school name.
Michigan uses the same system but because of population shrinkage, some schools use zip code names that no longer apply to their area.
Texas uses district name followed by school name. But for bigger cities tend to use the city name. So you'll see Fort Bend Hightower even though FBISD is in Missouri City. But Spring Dekaney will be called Houston Dekaney. The one funny note is that Glasscock County High School is officially called Garden City by the UIL. And the school's sports teams use Garden City as well.
Steubenville Steubenville
According to the ohsaa school list. It's just repetitive names get shortened. But every school goes by zip code city and school name.
Michigan uses the same system but because of population shrinkage, some schools use zip code names that no longer apply to their area.
Texas uses district name followed by school name. But for bigger cities tend to use the city name. So you'll see Fort Bend Hightower even though FBISD is in Missouri City. But Spring Dekaney will be called Houston Dekaney. The one funny note is that Glasscock County High School is officially called Garden City by the UIL. And the school's sports teams use Garden City as well.
BethelBeebusdriver
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Bethel Local Schools located in Bethel Twp in SE Miami County often gets Tipp City thrown behind it. Because we are just four miles east of Tipp City, but they are their own school district known as Tippecanoe. To the east of us just over the Clark County line in what is also known as Bethel tWP sits the district of Tecumseh. You often see New Carlisle attached to their name because the town is about five miles to the nw of the school. However the district merged two school districts Olive Branch local whicn brought Donnelsville, Park Layne, Medway, and Crystal Lakes together with New Carlisle to form the Bethel-New Carlisle Local in the 70s. Then there began to get some confusion with the mailing addresses of the schools because of the two schools in either side of the county line being the same name. To avoid more confusion with the Miami Bethel, the Clark County Bethel became Tecumseh in 1989. Also Greenon near Enon used to be known as Mad River Local but had to change theirs because there was another school known as Mad River near Wright Patt known as Stebbins.
BethelBeebusdriver
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Springfield is just Springfield serving all students inside the city limits and some outside of it. Northeastern serves students in Moorefield Twp including the enclaves of Villa and Northridge between Villa Road on Springfields northern edge to the Champaign County Line. The district also serves students in Pleasant and Harmony Twps on the east side of Clark County which include the communities of Catawba, Brighton, South Vienna, and Pittsburg. Students in Moorefield attend Kenton Ridge HS for NELS and students who live in Pleasant and Harmony attend Northeastern HS. Known as Clark Shawnee, the district hugs the east, south and immediate west sides of Springfield. All of the enclaves off of Bird, Leffel, Possum, Cliffton, Selma Pike, and Route 72. All of the K-8 schools in the CSLS, Reid-east, Rockway- West and Possum- South are being closed because the district is locating a new K-8 building near Shawnee HS...South of Shawnee HS, the district doesn't go any further due to the nearby Greenon district to the southwest and the nearby Southeastern schools southeast of the location. Northwestern serves the students in nw clark county in German and Pike Twps...All excecpt Northeastern elem/ms in South Vienna have Springfield addresses. The last two are in and around Springfield and have springfield addresses.
EagleFan
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Are there situations in Ohio where sports teams use the city and not the school name? Massillon? Coal Grove? Delta? Sebring? St Marys? Campbell? Amherst?
BethelBeebusdriver
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Kansas is located in Seneca County just of Route 635 just below the border with Sandusky County. Its where the old Lakota Junior High used to be before that it was known as Amsden-Jackson-Liberty Local School District before merging with Jackson Burgoon, Rising Sun, and Bradner. I was born and raised in nearby Bellevue and get a kick when people mention Lakota, that school is literally out in the middle of nowhere......I think Rising Sun is closer to the school than Kansas is.
EagleFan
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google mapped Lakota. Truly is middle of nowhere. They have electricity and running water at the school? Certainly no sewer
BethelBeebusdriver
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When you see the school and the landscape surrounding it you would think your in Iowa or Nebraska than in Ohio. Yes they have all three lol..seven years ago they went campus style like everyone else is doing. Lakota is your typical rural district that just got thrown together with several district buildings dotting the huge district. At least the road the schools on is two lane and paved but watch out for the huge man eating culverts and ditches along some of the roads and it can be fun in the wintertime as well. The SBC is now having tournaments at this location.
BethelBeebusdriver
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Over in Wood County I always see Bloomdale Elmwood in the sports page but the school is closer to Jerry City or Cygnet than anything. Findlay Liberty Benton is another. Yes the district comes right up to the Findlay City line and the high school is like a mile or so from the line as well. But the school was always located not far from Findlay in the twps. of Eagle and Liberty along with the village of Benton Ridge.
Like the Massillon, Canton, Lima, and Springfield examples, Defiance is actually a single school town. Tinora serves 4 different townships in the northeast part of Defiance County, and that's actually how they got the name "Tinora." TIffin, NOble, Richland, Adams township.
Ayersville is an unincorporated community about 5 miles SE of Defiance in the middle of Highland Township, and their district serves Highland and the parts of Richland Township that's south of the Maumee River.
To the west, Fairview is basically a consolidation of Sherwood, Ney, Mark Center, and Farmer. It's listed as Sherwood, boy the school is actually in the middle of nowhere about 5 miles north of Sherwood, between Sherwood and Ney.
Over in Ashland, I believe Crestview is still in the Ashland zip code but is actually located in Richland County.
Ayersville is an unincorporated community about 5 miles SE of Defiance in the middle of Highland Township, and their district serves Highland and the parts of Richland Township that's south of the Maumee River.
To the west, Fairview is basically a consolidation of Sherwood, Ney, Mark Center, and Farmer. It's listed as Sherwood, boy the school is actually in the middle of nowhere about 5 miles north of Sherwood, between Sherwood and Ney.
Over in Ashland, I believe Crestview is still in the Ashland zip code but is actually located in Richland County.
BethelBeebusdriver
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Ive always heard that Ayersville has a nice pool. As far as Ashland goes they also tend to include Mapleton...which is a consolidation of Ruggles-Troy-Nova and the communities of Nankin and Polk in Orange and Jackson Twps in Ashland County. This is a good one the Clearview School District outside of Lorain in Sheffield Twp but serve part of Lorain but not Lorain City. Lorain back in the day used to have Admiral King, Southview and Lorain Central Catholic to go along with Lorain Senior which was the first school to be closed but was formed again due to Admiral King and Southview combining....And Brookside schools on Lorains east side not a Lorain city school but does include some of Lorain, Sheffield and Sheffield Lake.
BethelBeebusdriver
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Didn't Lima have two other high schools and another catholic hs within the city. That had to be an incredible population loss to close those schools. Shawnee School campues are actually on Zurmehly Road which is close by to Breese on Limas southwest side. You can include the Lima parochial schools Temple Christian and Central Catholic within Limas city limits.
Didn't Hamilton Ohio have two high schools at one time? along with a second catholic high school?
Didn't Hamilton Ohio have two high schools at one time? along with a second catholic high school?
BethelBeebusdriver
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Another great example of this postal imperfection is the Marlington school district.....Not an Alliance City School located about 6 miles ne of Alliance, a portmanteau of Lexington and Marlboro Twps. Field High School east of Mogadore not a Mogadore School but part of the Field Local Schools. Wynford High School just outside of Bucyrus is not associated with Bucyrus but their pretty damn close to other...so close in fact that you can see each others football games at night. Bucyrus High ScHOOL A Bucyrus City School and Wynford High School part of the Wynford Local Schools serving the western half of Crawford county and the eastern half of Wyandot. They are on the same road about three miles apart and Wynford does go into the Bucyrus city limits to get some students.
CoventryTrackXCguy
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On a semirelated note, ive heard people mistake St paris Graham for a private school. Obviously they are a public school, but I can see where they get that idea from. Whats more astonishing, is some of those people who have thought that were wrestlers. Like you'd think anybody involved with wrestling might actually know a thing or two about St. Paris Graham.
Yes. There was Hamilton Garfield and Hamilton Taft. Both Hamilton City Schools. Combined 1983ish.
BethelBeebusdriver
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Apparently they have no idea of the history of the French influence that took place in the western part of this big rural county. Just a bunch of kids living in an area where work ethic is king.
BethelBeebusdriver
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Judging by reading the paper or if you were a postal employee in another part of the state, Maybe the schools of West Muskingum or Maysville were apart of the Zanesville City Schools because of the proximity to the city...West Muskingum local located 5 miles west of Zanesville on US Route 40..Maysville Local campus is located on the southern edge of Zanesville but serves the area south of it including some enclaves of Zanesvile.
BethelBeebusdriver
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Dayton Jefferson...not apart of the Dayton Public Schools, but out on Daytons sw side in Jefferson Twp off of Union Road....Sort of dying school district. Also Stebbins HS in Riverside near Wright Patt AFB, would fall under the Dayton umbrella occasionally. They distanced themselves by calling themselves Mad River Local Schools. Now I see them being identified by Riverside Stebbins in the sports columns these days. Northridge High School located in North Dayton but not in DPS.....DPS....Stivers, Belmont, Ponitz, Thurgood Marshall, Dunbar, and Meadowdale are the only DPS high schools left.
BethelBeebusdriver
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And neighboring Russia while were at it, and to the west of that Versailles with Sidney since their not in Australia..lol Its like a trip around the world in Shelby County.
OUcats82
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There were two Catholic high schools in Hamilton up until the mid-60s when Badin was formed and opened. Hamilton Catholic was an all-boys school and Notre Dame was all-girls.
The Hamilton Catholic building still stands as serves ironically as the central office for Hamilton City Schools.
The Notre Dame building is a senior living apartment complex across from St. Joe's.
Sykotyk
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But Ohio still lists them by their name. CAMPBELL MEMORIAL, Massillon WASHINGTON, SEBRING MCKINLEY, etc.
UIL does no such thing with Glasscock County High School. They're just listed as Garden City and nothing else. Because of that the sports teams don't go by Glasscock County, either.
Maxie
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Washington High School is the name of the school. Massillon is the city. WHS is the only public high school in the MCSD and is located in the city of Massillon. Massillon Christian is a private high school in the city of Massillon.
The eastern portions of the city of Massillon are located in the Perry Local School District and the far western portions of the city are in the Tuslaw Local School District. In addition, the city consists of other areas that are in the Fairless Local School District and the Jackson Local District.
InTheDarke
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Why isn't Massillon Washington just simply Massillon?
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OUcats82
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Gallia Academy is another interesting school name/situation.
It sounds like a private school but is, indeed, public.
It is basically Gallipolis High School but has kept the "Academy" portion of its name as a connection to it's origins as a military academy.
It sounds like a private school but is, indeed, public.
It is basically Gallipolis High School but has kept the "Academy" portion of its name as a connection to it's origins as a military academy.
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BethelBeebusdriver
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I don't know what the Miami Trace is, but they are a school in the middle of nowhere located four miles north of Washington Court House at the corner of State Route 41 and Bloomingburg New Holland Road. There school district zone is enormous as it amasses most of Fayette County and it has a Washington Court House address. They have just built a new high school.