Mariemont High School

Mariemont High School is a public high school located in a suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio. Mariemont is part of the Mariemont City School District. Mariemont High School is known for its high academic standards. Mariemont has been a Blue Ribbon School of Excellence four separate times. The years include 1984-85, 1988–89, 2001–02, 2004-05. Mariemont is the first to receive this award four times in the state of Ohio and the fourth nationwide.[5]

Mariemont High School
Address
3812 Pocahontas Avenue Mariemont , (Hamilton County) , Ohio 45227 United States
Coordinates	39°8′41.5″N 84°21′51.3″W
Information
Type	Public, Coeducational high school
Motto	"Work Hard. Create Experiences. Embrace Growth."
Opened	April 14, 1879 [1]
School district	Mariemont City School District
Superintendent	Steven Estepp[2]
Principal	James Renner[2]
Teaching staff	41.00 (FTE)[3]
Grades	9-12
Enrollment	509 (2017-18)[3]
Student to teacher ratio	12.41[3]
Campus type	Suburban
Color(s)	Blue and Gold [2]
Slogan	"Warrior Pride! Warrior Spirit!”
Fight song	"Fight, Fight, Fight, for Mariemont!"
Athletics conference	Cincinnati Hills League[2]
Mascot	Warrior
Team name	Warriors[2]
Accreditation	North Central Association of Colleges and Schools [4]
Newspaper	The Warpath
Athletic Director	Tom Nerl[2]
Website	Official Website

History

The school was originally housed in the building that now holds Mariemont Elementary School. The current structure was constructed in 1970, designed by architects Baxter, Hodell, Donnelly and Preston.[6] A large portion of the building featured an open, modular design with hexagonal "pods" with department offices in the center. The pods had no walls or clearly defined borders between areas, no corridors, and no windows. Their size was described as equivalent to six standard classrooms.[7] Students were relatively free to move about within the pods. Subjects requiring seclusion, such as music, were in more traditional classrooms.[8]

The open design was soon found to make it difficult for students, with one staff member estimating that 20% of students could not function in the open, self-directed environment. Within a few years, bookcases and partitions were used to break up the pods into classroom-like areas, but in many cases it was still possible to hear adjacent classes.[9][10]

A project to remove and replace the pods with modern classrooms began in 2019.[11]

Extra curricular

Chess Club

Music

• Marching Band
• Indoor Drumline^t
• Concert Band
• Concert Orchestra
• Chamber Orchestra
• Concert Choir
• Chamber Choir
• Showstoppers (After-school a capella group)

The Mariemont Indoor Drumline was the champion ensemble of the Tristate Circuit in 2007, 2009 and 2010.

Latin Club

Mariemont's Latin Club functions as a local chapter of both the Ohio Junior Classical League (OJCL)[12] and National Junior Classical League (NJCL).[13]

The Warpath

The Warpath is Mariemont High School's student newspaper. They have moved from being a print publication to an online publication. Newer online issues are printed on the actual website, but previous issued have had to be accessed through Adobe. Editors of the paper also write the stories published and do the layout. Students can enroll in the journalism class after their freshman year to work on the paper.

Sports

Mariemont is part of the Cincinnati Hills League (CHL). It is a small school league with other small schools from mostly east of Cincinnati. Other schools include Deer Park, Finneytown, Indian Hill, Madeira, Reading, Taylor, and Wyoming. Mariemont offers 24 varsity sports.

Ohio High School Athletic Association State Championships

• Girls Lacrosse - 2018
• Boys Lacrosse- 2017
• Boys Basketball - 1953 [14]
• Boys Track and Field* - 1949[14]
• Boys Baseball* - 1945[15]

* Titles won by Plainville High School prior to consolidation into Mariemont district.

Further information: Ohio High School Athletic Association

Notable alumni

• Nick Thoman '04 - US Swim and Dive Team Member, Olympic Silver Medalist [16]
• Mark Lippert '91 - US Ambassador to South Korea [17]
• Karl G. Henize '45* - NASA Astronaut and Astronomical Scientist [18]

* Did not graduate due to enlistment in U.S Navy

• Erik Swanson '12 - Major League Baseball pitcher[19]

References

1. http://www.mariemontschools.org/HistoryTradition.aspx
2. OHSAA. "Ohio High School Athletic Association member directory". Archived from the original on 2010-11-03. Retrieved 2010-03-16.
3. "Mariemont High School". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved December 3, 2019.
4. NCA-CASI. "NCA-Council on Accreditation and School Improvement". Archived from the original on April 16, 2010. Retrieved 2010-03-16.
5. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-22. Retrieved 2011-03-23.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
6. McCormick, Virginia Evans, Educational Architecture in Ohio: From One-room Schools and Carnegie Libraries to Community Education Villages, Kent, Ohio: Kent State University, 2001, ISBN 9780873386661, pp. 116, 253.
7. Gwynn, Susan "Education at work in an open Environment", Council of Educational Facility Planners Journal, June 1975.
8. Daglesh, Garvin, New ways to Learn, Cincinnati Magazine, March 1971.
9. Deadrick, Lizzie Architectural Marvel:MHS The Warpath 22 September 2011
10. Kranz, Cindy "Schools restructure classrooms", Cincinnati Enquirer ; Cincinnati, Ohio [Cincinnati, Ohio]04 Nov 2002: B.1.
11. MHS Master Facility Plan, Mariemont City Schools
12. "2009 Convention – Club Point Summary" (PDF). Ohio Junior Classical League. 2009. Retrieved 10 August 2009.
    • "2010 State Convention – Club Point Summary" (PDF). OJCL.org. Ohio Junior Classical League. 2010. Retrieved 7 March 2010.
13. "Constitution of the Ohio Junior Classical League" (PDF). Ohio Junior Classical League. March 2008. Retrieved 18 September 2009. ...by paying both OJCL annual chapter dues and any annual chapter membership dues required by NJCL.
14. OHSAA. "Ohio High School Athletic Association Web site". Retrieved 2006-12-31.
15. Yappi. "Yappi Sports Baseball". Archived from the original on 2007-03-08. Retrieved 2007-02-12.
16. http://www.usaswimming.org/DesktopDefault.aspx?TabId=1453&Alias=Rainbow&Lang=en-US&biosid=8f4b8d8f-3c11-48db-aa69-544d12761670
17. http://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2015/03/04/cincy-native-ambassador-to-s-korea-attacked-stabbed/24403133/
18. Potter, Andrew; Parker, Robert (1994). "Obituary: Karl Gordon Henize, 1926-1993". 26: 1604. Bibcode:1994BAAS...26.1604P. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
19. https://www.cincinnati.com/story/sports/high-school/high-school-sports/2019/04/10/mariemont-grad-erik-swanson-gets-called-up-seattle-mariners/3428243002/

External links

• Aerial image of the school and proposed changes, showing the "pod" design