Wyoming High School is a public high school located in a suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio. Wyoming is part of the Wyoming City School District, Hamilton County, Ohio. Wyoming High School is known for its excellence in education, and was ranked among the top five districts in the state on the Ohio 2006 State Report Card, with a performance index rating of 108.6. This was its second year running of being one of the top-performing school districts in the state of Ohio. In 2005 the district was first overall with a score 108.2 In 2006, it was ranked 100th of Newsweek Magazine's Top 1200 Schools. Image File history File linksMetadata No higher resolution available. ... Wyoming is a city located in Hamilton County, Ohio. ... Official language(s) None Capital Columbus Largest city Columbus Largest metro area Cleveland Area  Ranked 34th  - Total 44,825 sq mi (116,096 km²)  - Width 220 miles (355 km)  - Length 220 miles (355 km)  - % water 8. ... Housing subdivision near Union, Kentucky, a suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio. ... For other uses, see Cowboy (disambiguation). ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... This article is about the color. ... Nickname: Location in Hamilton County, Ohio, USA Coordinates: Country United States State Ohio County Hamilton Founded 1788 Incorporated 1802 (village) - 1819 (city) Government  - Type Strong mayor  - Mayor Mark L. Mallory (D) Area  - City  79. ...

Academics

Wyoming offers a challenging curriculum, including many Advanced Placement classes. These include AP European History, AP Biology, AP Macroeconomics, AP Microeconomics, AP Art 2D, AP Art 3D, AP English, AP French, AP Spanish, AP Latin, AP American History, AP Chemistry, AP Calculus, AP Statistics and a world-renowned AP American Government program. Wyoming's class of 2004 was ranked first among medium sized schools in the subject. [1]

Wyoming is a very strong arts school. It offers many music programs, including three string orchestras, a band, and multiple choir programs. There are also many other courses offered in the arts, such as Computer Graphics and Photography, as well as three separate AP art classes.

In addition to art, Wyoming also offers technology-based classes, such as Video Production and Computer Science.

Spanish, French, and Latin are offered in five separate levels at Wyoming. Each language has levels I, II, III, IV, and V (AP), available to every student.

Extra Curriculars

Wyoming has many extra-curricular activities, such as its "Project LEAD" service organization, "Icarus" writing publication, an excellent Mock Trial team, and many others.

In recent years, Wyoming's Science Olympiad, JETS, and Academic Teams have been some of the most successful extracurricular groups in the school. In both 2005 and 2006, the Science Olympiad team won medals at the Ohio state competition.

Also of note is Wyoming's outstanding drama program, which is based in the Pendery Center Auditorium, a state-of-the-art facility that was completed in the year 2000. Recent productions include the musical, Oklahoma!, and the drama The Unnatural and Accidental Women. Oklahoma! (1943) was the first musical play written by composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist/librettist Oscar Hammerstein II (see Rodgers and Hammerstein). ...

Sports

Wyoming is part of the Cincinnati Hills League (CHL), a small school league with other small schools - mostly from east of Cincinnati. Other schools include Deer Park, Finneytown, Indian Hill, Madeira, Reading, Taylor, and Mariemont. Wyoming offers 22 varsity sports. They are as follows:

• Football (Fall)
• Men's Soccer (Fall)
• Women's Soccer (Fall)
• Volleyball (Fall)
• Men's Golf (Fall)
• Women's Golf (Fall)
• Cross Country (Co-ed) (Fall)
• Women's Tennis (Fall)
• Cheerleading (Football and Basketball)
• Men's Basketball (Winter)
• Women's Basketball (Winter)
• Swimming (Co-ed) (Winter)
• Diving (Co-ed) (Winter)
• Wrestling (Winter)
• Indoor Track (Club Sport) (Co-ed) (Winter)
• Track and Field (Co-ed) (Spring)
• Men's Tennis (Spring)
• Baseball (Spring)
• Softball (Spring)
• Bowling (Winter)

Ohio High School Athletic Association State Championships

• Boys Football – 1977 ^[1]
• Boys Track and Field – 1950 ^[2]
• Girls Basketball – 1996 ^[2]

==Notable alumni==hi The Ohio High School Athletic Association (OHSAA) is the governing body of athletics programs for junior and senior high schools in the State of Ohio, an unincorporated non-profit organization founded in 1907. ... United States simply as football, is a competitive team sport that is both fast-paced and strategic. ... Athletics, also known as track and field or track and field athletics, is a collection of sport events. ... Sara Giauro shoots a three-point shot, FIBA Europe Cup for Women Finals 2005. ...

• Vice Admiral C.R. "Bob" Bell, US Navy (Retired) - Class of 1948
• Thomas Boyatt, former U.S. Ambassador to Burkina Faso (1978-1980) and Columbia (1980-1983)
• C.F. Payne, Illustrator
• Ahmed Plummer, Football player
• P. J. Pope, Football player
• David Shenk, Writer
• Bob Goodridge, Football player
• Joshua Wolf Shenk, Writer
• Lance Williams, Reporter and Writer, Co- author of Game of Shadows
• Nikki Giovanni, Writer
• Jeff Russell, Baseball player
• William Greider, Writer
• Tracy Smith, TV personality
• Tim Metcalfe, Screenwriter (Revenge of the Nerds)
• Archimedes Plutonium, (Class of 1968, Ludwig Hansen). Several books on science, and the-- Atom Totality theory

Chris F. Payne, most commonly known as C.F. Payne, is a famous American caricaturist and illustrator. ... Ahmed Kamil Plummer (born March 26, 1976 in Wyoming, Ohio) is a former National Football League player who played in 6 NFL seasons for the San Francisco 49ers from 2000-2005. ... William Leroy Pope, Jr. ... Game of Shadows is a book published on March 23, 2006 and was written by Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams, reporters for the San Francisco Chronicle. ... Yolande Cornelia Nikki Giovanni (born June 7, 1943 in Knoxville, Tennessee) is a legendary Grammy-nominated American poet, activist and author. ... Jeffrey Lee Russell (born September 2, 1961 Cincinnati, OH - ) was a pitcher with a 14 year career from 1983 to 1996. ... William Greider is an American author who writes primarily about economics. ... Tracy Smith is an American news reporter, and co-anchor of The Saturday Early Show on the CBS network. ... It has been suggested that Revenge of the Nerds (2007 film) be merged into this article or section. ... Archimedes Plutonium (born July 5, 1950) is primarily noted for his varied and eccentric contributions to Usenet. ...

External links

• District Website

Notes and references