Marshfield High School is a public high school, located in

Marshfield, Missouri Marshfield is a city in Missouri and the county seat of Webster County, Missouri. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 6,633. As of the 2020 census, Marshfield had a population of 7,458. It is part of the Springfield, Missouri, Metro ...

which is located in Webster County. It is part of the Marshfield R-1 School District and holds grades 912. As of 2012 it contains 956 students and 59 classroom teachers. The current teacher to student ratio is 1:16 which is higher than the Missouri average (1:13).Marshfield High School - Marshfield, Missouri/MO - Public School Profile
. Public School Review. Retrieved 2010-11-22.

Athletics

Marshfield High School's official mascot is the blue jay. They are part of the

Big 8 Conference The Big Eight Conference was a National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)-affiliated Division I-A college athletic association that sponsored football. It was formed in January 1907 as the Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Associatio ...

. From the late 1980s to the late 90s the Lady Jays basketball team made many state play off runs and seven championship wins under coaches Scott Ballard and Gary Murphy. *

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 t ...

- Men *

Basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's h ...

– Men & Women *

Cheerleading Cheerleading is an activity in which the participants (called cheerleaders) cheer for their team as a form of encouragement. It can range from chanting slogans to intense physical activity. It can be performed to motivate sports teams, to ente ...

- Co-ed * Cross Country – Men & Women *

Debate Debate is a process that involves formal discourse on a particular topic, often including a moderator and audience. In a debate, arguments are put forward for often opposing viewpoints. Debates have historically occurred in public meetings, a ...

- Co-ed * Football - Men *

Golf Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible. Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standardized playing area, and coping ...

– Men & Women * Competitive Maths - Co-ed * Soccer - Men & Women *

Softball Softball is a game similar to baseball played with a larger ball on a smaller field. Softball is played competitively at club levels, the college level, and the professional level. The game was first created in 1887 in Chicago by George Hanc ...

- Women * Speech - Co-ed *

Swimming Swimming is the self-propulsion of a person through water, or other liquid, usually for recreation, sport, exercise, or survival. Locomotion is achieved through coordinated movement of the limbs and the body to achieve hydrodynamic thrust that r ...

- Men & Women *

Track and field Track and field is a sport that includes athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills. The name is derived from where the sport takes place, a running track and a grass field for the throwing and some of the jumping eve ...

– Men & Women *

Volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Sum ...

– Co-ed *

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 ...

- Men *(2012-2013) Archery - Men & Women

Notable alumni

* Leah Johnson, head volleyball coach at Michigan State University

References

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Marshfield High School - Marshfield, Missouri - MO - School overview
. GreatSchools. Retrieved 2010-11-22.

External links

Marshfield High School data
Educational institutions established in 2001 Public high schools in Missouri Schools in Webster County, Missouri 2001 establishments in Missouri {{Missouri-school-stub