New Philadelphia High School
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New Philadelphia High School is a public high school
in New Philadelphia, Ohio
. It is the only high school in the New Philadelphia City Schools district. Its mascot is the Quakers.
- Tuscarawas and Buckeye Career Center. The junior high students finished the school year attending classes at local churches. The following year, the high school students attended most classes in modular buildings in a parking lot behind the school. The class of 1996 was the first to graduate from the newly repaired and renovated high school. The perpetrators of the arson were never apprehended, and the case remains open.
. Only the Massillon Washington Tigers-Canton McKinley Bulldogs (1894) and the Sandusky Blue Streaks-Fremont Ross Little Giants (1895) rivalries are older.
High school
High school is a term used in parts of the English speaking world to describe institutions which provide all or part of secondary education. The term is often incorporated into the name of such institutions....
in New Philadelphia, Ohio
New Philadelphia, Ohio
New Philadelphia is a city in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, United States, 71 miles south of Cleveland on the Tuscarawas River. It was first incorporated in 1808. Coal and clay are found in the vicinity...
. It is the only high school in the New Philadelphia City Schools district. Its mascot is the Quakers.
History
On March 4, 1990, arsonists set the high school library ablaze. The fire gutted several rooms causing the high school and junior high to close. Classes resumed two weeks later on a modified schedule as the high school students attended school beginning at 6:30AM at Kent State UniversityKent State University
Kent State University is a public research university located in Kent, Ohio, United States. The university has eight campuses around the northeast Ohio region with the main campus in Kent being the largest...
- Tuscarawas and Buckeye Career Center. The junior high students finished the school year attending classes at local churches. The following year, the high school students attended most classes in modular buildings in a parking lot behind the school. The class of 1996 was the first to graduate from the newly repaired and renovated high school. The perpetrators of the arson were never apprehended, and the case remains open.
Ohio High School Athletic Association State Championships
- Boys BasketballBasketballBasketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
– 1940
Football
New Philadelphia Quakers and the neighboring Dover Tornadoes have played one another at the end of each regular football season since 1896, making it the third oldest high school football rivalry in the state of OhioOhio
Ohio is a Midwestern state in the United States. The 34th largest state by area in the U.S.,it is the 7th‑most populous with over 11.5 million residents, containing several major American cities and seven metropolitan areas with populations of 500,000 or more.The state's capital is Columbus...
. Only the Massillon Washington Tigers-Canton McKinley Bulldogs (1894) and the Sandusky Blue Streaks-Fremont Ross Little Giants (1895) rivalries are older.