Mariemont High School is a public high school located in Mariemont, a suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio. It is the only high school in the Mariemont City School District. Mariemont High School is known for its high academic standards, and it has been named a Blue Ribbon School of Excellence four separate times: 1984-85, 1988–89, 2001–02, 2004-05. The school was the first to receive this award four times in the state of Ohio and the fourth nationwide.
History The school was originally housed in the building that now holds Mariemont Elementary School. In 1970, a new school was constructed, designed by architects Baxter, Hodell, Donnelly and Preston.McCormick, Virginia Evans, Educational Architecture in Ohio: From One-room Schools and Carnegie Libraries to Community Education Villages, Kent, Ohio: Kent State University, 2001, , pp. 116, 253. 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 classrooms, no hallways, and no windows in class areas. Each pod was described to be equivalent to six standard classrooms.Gwynn, Susan "Education at work in an open Environment", Council of Educational Facility Planners Journal, June 1975. Students were relatively free to move about within the pods. Subjects requiring seclusion, such as music, were in more traditional classrooms.Daglesh, Garvin, New ways to Learn, Cincinnati Magazine, March 1971.
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.Deadrick, Lizzie The Warpath 22 September 2011Kranz, Cindy "Schools restructure classrooms", Cincinnati Enquirer; Cincinnati, Ohio [Cincinnati, Ohio]04 Nov 2002: B.1.
In the 2018 midterm elections, the district passed a levy to renovate half of the school and completely rebuild the other.
In 2024, a student at the school informed authorities that another student was planning a school shooting at the school, with encouragement from an out-of-state adult. A fourteen-year-old suspect was arrested and prosecutors plan to try them as an adult for conspiracy to commit aggravated murder.Schramm, Molly, 'He would kill me as fast as possible': Teen speaks out after tipping police off to Mariemont HS shooting plot WCPO Feb 11, 2024 Congressman Greg Landsman invited the student who raised the alarm to be his guest at that State of the Union address that March.Jordan, Felicia & Hart,Jessica Teen who alerted police to mass shooting plot at Mariemont attends Biden's State of the Union WCPO, Mar 06, 2024
Extra curricular Music Band Concert Orchestra Chamber Orchestra Concert Choir Chamber Choir Showstoppers (After-school a capella group)
Latin Club Mariemont High School's Latin Club functions as a local chapter of both the Ohio Junior Classical League (OJCL) and National Junior Classical League (NJCL). In 2018, the freshmen Certamen team won the state championships at the intermediate level.
Newspaper The Mariemont Blueprint (Formerly The Warpath) is Mariemont High School's student newspaper.MHS Blueprint Students enrolled in the MHS Journalism Class write articles for the paper.
Sports Mariemont is member of the Cincinnati Hills League (CHL). The league consists of other small schools from the suburbs of Cincinnati. Mariemont offers 24 varsity sports.
Ohio High School Athletic Association State Championships Boys Soccer- 2020 Girls Lacrosse - 2018, 2021, 2022 Boys Lacrosse- 2007, 2013, 2014, 2017, 2021 Boys Basketball - 1953 Boys Track and Field* - 1949 Boys Baseball* - 1945 * Titles won by Plainville High School prior to consolidation into Mariemont.
Notable alumni Karl G. Henize '45* - NASA Astronaut and Astronomical Scientist * Did not graduate due to enlistment in U.S Navy Patricia Villegas '87 – Dominican Republic Ambassador to Brazil Mark Lippert '91 - US Ambassador to South Korea Erik Swanson '12 - Major League Baseball pitcher Nick Thoman '04 - US Swim and Dive Team Member, Olympic Silver Medalist
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External links Aerial image of the school and proposed changes, showing the "pod" design