Mayfield High School (Ohio)

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Mayfield High School
Home of the Green Machine
Established	1895
School type	Public
Mascot	Wildcat
Principal	James Loewer
Location	Mayfield Village, Ohio
Enrollment	2,041
Colors	Green and White
Homepage	Official School Website

Mayfield High School is a public high school located in Mayfield Village, Ohio, an eastern suburb of Cleveland. It is part of the Mayfield City School District.

Mayfield High School had its first graduating class in 1899 and is currently located at 6116 Wilson Mills Road in Mayfield Village, behind the Mayfield Regional branch of the Cuyahoga County Public Library. The school is made up of 4 permanent buildings and two portable classroom units. The buildings are the 8-9 building, 10-12 building, science building, and field house. Prior to the construction of these buildings, the high school was located at 1123 SOM Center Road in Mayfield Heights, which now serves as Mayfield Middle School.

Mayfield High School educates 8th through 12th grade students from Gates Mills, Highland Heights, Mayfield Heights, and Mayfield Village; the four cities comprising the Mayfield City School District.

1 Academics
2 Athletics
- 2.1 Ohio High School Athletic Association State Championships
3 External links
4 Notes and references

[edit] Academics

Mayfield prides itself on high quality of education, having received a perfect 27 out of 27 on the State Report Card. It graduated 96.5% of its students in the 2003-04 school year. It also met or exceeded the average scores of all similar school districts in all five subjects of the 10th Grade Ohio Graduation Test in the 2004-2005 school year.

The school is currently comprised of seventeen departments: Academic Excellence Program, Art, Athletics, Choral, English, Family Consumer Science, Foreign Language, Guidance, Industrial Art, Library, Math, Physical Education, Science, Social Studies, Special Education, Special Services, and Technology Services.

[edit] Athletics

Mayfield is a member of the Western Reserve Conference. It currently offers eleven men's varsity sports and ten women's varsity sports. Men's fall sports are football, cross country, golf, and soccer, the winter sports are basketball, hockey, swimming, and wrestling, and the spring sports are baseball, tennis, and track & field. The women's fall sports are cross country, golf, soccer, and volleyball, the winter sports are basketball, gymnastics, and swimming, and the spring sports are softball, tennis, and track. The athletic program is managed by athletic director Jim Dasher. This past season the Wildcat football team went 10-2 overall winning the Western Reserve Conference and making it back into the playoffs for the first time since 2001. The Wildcat varsity ice hockey team also has won the 2006 Blue Central Division lead by head coach Jim McMahon.