Thorp High School is a
secondary school
A secondary school describes an institution that provides secondary education and also usually includes the building where this takes place. Some secondary schools provide both '' secondary education, lower secondary education'' (ages 11 to 14) ...
in
Thorp
''Thorp'' is a Middle English word for a hamlet or small village.
Etymology
The name can either come from Old Norse ''þorp'' (also ''thorp''), or from Old English (Anglo-Saxon) ''þrop''. There are many place names in England with the suffi ...
, in
Clark County,
Wisconsin
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,
United States
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. The school is located just north of
Wisconsin Highway 29
State Trunk Highway 29 (often called Highway 29, STH-29 or WIS 29) is a state highway running east–west across central Wisconsin. It is a major east–west corridor connecting the Twin Cities and the Chippewa Valley with Wausau ...
in the small community of Thorp, Wisconsin which is 60 miles west of
Wausau and 42 miles east of
Eau Claire Eau Claire (French for "clear water", ''pl.'' ''eaux claires'') is the name of a number of locations and features in North America. The name is pronounced as if it were spelled "O'Clare".
Place names (Canada)
Communities
*Eau Claire, Calgary, a n ...
.
Demographics
Athletic
Thorp High Offers the following athletic activities in the
Cloverbelt Conference
The Cloverbelt Conference is a high school athletic conference in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. It consists of 17 schools from west central Wisconsin, located between the Eau Claire – Chippewa Falls metropolitan area and the Marshfield-Wisco ...
.
* Basketball (boys and girls)
* Baseball
* Cheerleading
* Football
* Golf
* Softball
* Track
* Wrestling
* Volleyball
[Student Handbook](_blank)
School District of Thorp. 2011-12-29.
Thorp High School athletic state championships include football (1993), boys basketball (2014), and softball (2016).
References
External links
School District of Thorpofficial website
City Data and Education Profile
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Public high schools in Wisconsin
Schools in Clark County, Wisconsin