Chardon High School (commonly Chardon, Chardon High, or CHS), is a

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in Chardon,

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, serving students in

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8- 12. The school is part of the

Chardon Local School District Chardon Local School District is a school district which serves part of Geauga County, Ohio, United States. It is based in Chardon, Ohio. In 2023, Niche ranked the district 84th best school district in Ohio out of 607 districts. Schools It oper ...

, with admission based primarily on the location of students' homes. As of the 2005-06 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,153 students and 60.2 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student-teacher ratio of 19.2.

Shooting

On February 27, 2012, six students were shot at the school by 17-year-old T.J. Lane. According to local news reports, the six victims were chosen at random, countering early reports that a group of students were targeted. Three of the victims died. All Chardon local schools were immediately closed following the shooting, while the high school was put under a lock-down procedure. The entire school district was closed on Tuesday, February 28. The district board also canceled classes in all schools until Friday, with numerous counseling services available until then. On March 19, 2013, Lane was given three life sentences, one for each of the victims killed in the shooting.

Ohio High School Athletic Association State Championships

*Boys

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- Nick Elswick - 3200m - 2014 *Boys

- Emil Heineking - 3200m - 2007 *Boys Cross Country - Emil Heineking - 2006 *Boys

- Ben Robinson - 800m - 2004 *Boys

Tennis Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball ...

- Stephen Rozek - 2002 *Boys

Wrestling Wrestling is a series of combat sports involving grappling-type techniques such as clinch fighting, throws and takedowns, joint locks, pins and other grappling holds. Wrestling techniques have been incorporated into martial arts, combat ...

- Danny Anderson - 1997 *Boys

Football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...

- 1994, 2020, 2021 *Boys

- Hank Inderlied - 1985 *Boys

- Mike Davies - 1982, 1983 *Girls Cross Country - 1978, 1979 *Girls

- Juanita Vetter - One Mile Run - 1979 *Boys

- Mark Vetter - 1978 *Boys

- Leroy Kemp - 1973, 1974 *Boys Cross Country - 1972 *Boys

Baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding tea ...

- 2022

Notable alumni

Leroy Kemp Leroy (Lee) P. Kemp, Jr. (born Darnell Freeman; December 24, 1956) is a former American freestyle and folkstyle wrestler. Kemp would achieve success at the high school, collegiate, and international levels. Kemp started wrestling in only the 9 ...

, wrestler

References

External links

District Website
{{authority control High schools in Geauga County, Ohio Public high schools in Ohio

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