Oberlin High School is a

public high school State schools (in England, Wales, Australia and New Zealand) or public schools (Scottish English and North American English) are generally primary or secondary schools that educate all students without charge. They are funded in whole or in pa ...

Oberlin, Ohio Oberlin is a city in Lorain County, Ohio, United States, 31 miles southwest of Cleveland. Oberlin is the home of Oberlin College, a liberal arts college and music conservatory with approximately 3,000 students. The town is the birthplace of the ...

. It is the only high school in the

Oberlin City Schools Oberlin High School is a public high school in Oberlin, Ohio. It is the only high school in the Oberlin City Schools district. Academics There is a partnership between the high school and Oberlin College. Students who live within the district ...

district.

Academics

There is a partnership between the high school and

Oberlin College Oberlin College is a Private university, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college and conservatory of music in Oberlin, Ohio. It is the oldest Mixed-sex education, coeducational liberal arts college in the United S ...

. Students who live within the district and attend Oberlin High School for their entire high school career may attend

tuition-free, if accepted.

Athletics

The school is a member of the

Lorain County League The Lorain County League (LC8) is an Ohio high school athletic league that began with the 2019-20 school year and is made up of eight schools predominantly based in Lorain County, Ohio. All schools are members of the Ohio High School Athletic Assoc ...

(LCL) The school colors are red, white and blue. The mascot is now the

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, after the school board voted to discontinue use of its former Native American mascot at the end of the 2006–07 school year. The school's fight song is the

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. The school mascot used to be the Oberlin Indians with the logo depicted by a Native American with a feathered headdress.http://a2.ec-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/49/d97a41d38ecf47934e71ca2969332f7f/l.jpg Sundance came across the high school's use of an offensive Native American mascot emblem. He decided to petition the local school board to convince the school to adapt another mascot, while opposition argued for the mascot's "insignificance". Several discussions took place before the final decision was rendered, and in 2007 the school decided to change its mascot and team name from the Oberlin Indians to the Oberlin Phoenix. This discussion was made with a fair amount of backlash.

Ohio High School Athletic Association State Championships

* Boys

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- 1926, 1986 * Boys

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 events ...

– 1932,1936

Notable alumni

Ross Gunn Ross Gunn (May 12, 1897 – October 15, 1966) was an American physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project during World War II. The New York Times described him as "one of the true fathers of the nuclear submarine program". From 1927 to 1947, ...

, scientist *

Charles Martin Hall Charles Martin Hall (December 6, 1863 – December 27, 1914) was an American inventor, businessman, and chemist. He is best known for his invention in 1886 of an inexpensive method for producing aluminum, which became the first metal to atta ...

, inventor of the Hall-Heroult process to extract aluminum from

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Robert Maynard Hutchins Robert Maynard Hutchins (January 17, 1899 – May 14, 1977) was an American educational philosopher. He was president (1929–1945) and chancellor (1945–1951) of the University of Chicago, and earlier dean of Yale Law School (1927–1929). His& ...

, influential American interdisciplinary educational philosopher * David Lewis, philosopher *

Dwight Peabody Dwight Van Dorn Peabody (January 26, 1894 – January 3, 1972) was an American football end who played two seasons in the National Football League (NFL) with the Columbus Panhandles and Toledo Maroons. He played college football at Ohio State Un ...

, football player * Jason Moore, football player *

Cliff Stoudt Clifford Lewis Stoudt (born March 27, 1955) is a former American football quarterback in the National Football League for the Pittsburgh Steelers, St. Louis/Phoenix Cardinals, Miami Dolphins and Dallas Cowboys. He also was a member of the Birmi ...

, former NFL Quarterback from 1977 to 1991, most notably with the Pittsburgh Steelers * Hugh Thornton, football player *

Don Treadwell Don Treadwell (born June 10, 1960) is an American football coach and former player. He is currently the interim head coach at Arkansas-Pine Bluff, having previously served as the offensive coordinator and wide receivers coach on Doc Gamble's inau ...

, head football coach at Miami University. *

Helen Hale Tuck Helen Hale Tuck Cohron (1894 – September 6, 1957) was an American educator, clubwoman, and college dean. She was acting Dean of Women at Howard University from 1919 to 1922, and an active clubwoman in Harlem in the 1930s and 1940s. Early lif ...

, acting Dean of Women at

Howard University Howard University (Howard) is a private, federally chartered historically black research university in Washington, D.C. It is classified among "R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activity" and accredited by the Middle States Commissi ...

, 1919 to 1922

Notes and references

External links

District website
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