Ocean Springs High School
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Ocean Springs High School is an IB-certified public high school in Ocean Springs, Mississippi
(United States). The school serves students in grades 9
–12
and is part of the Ocean Springs School District
. Its auditorium's roof collapsed in Hurricane Katrina
, on August 29, 2005, but has since been rebuilt.
The first section is the north campus. The north campus is split into the main building and the 9th Grade Academy.
The main building houses the offices (Administrative, Main, Counseling, and Attendance) along with a set of English and Social Studies
classrooms, the Band
and Choir
Halls, and the Cafeteria.
Although the 9th Grade Academy houses mainly freshmen-level classes, including 9th grade Algebra I, Biology
, English I, and remedial classes, it also is home to a few upper-level courses.
The south campus is split into the 15 Classroom Building (Math/Science Hall), the Round Building classrooms, the Media Center building, the gym, and the auditorium. The Auditorium was the only part of the school affected by Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and has been completely renovated since. It was completed January 2007.
In the 15 classroom building, the classes are primarily sciences (such as Chemistry
, AP Chemistry
, AP Biology
, Anatomy and Physiology, Physics
, and AP Physics), and Mathematics (upper-level Algebra I, Algebra II, Advanced Algebra, Accelerated and Regular Geometry
, Probability and Statistics, Pre-Calculus, AP Calculus AB and BC
).
The round building mainly has foreign languages (French and Spanish), health classes, and JROTC classes.
The principal of Ocean Springs High School until 2006 was Robert Hirsch. In the fall of 2006, David Lynn Baggett stepped in as the new principal. Robert Hirsch has since been elected as Superintendent.
As it stands currently, the campus should be finished by the class of 2013's graduating year.
. OSHS has several sports teams, including Football
, Track and Field
, Swimming
, Cross Country
, Fast and Slow pitch Softball
, Soccer, Volleyball
, Basketball
, Golf
, Tennis
, and Baseball
. The high school is also the first in Mississippi to have a wrestling
team.
The most recent sports award has gone to the 2008 Greyhound Baseball Team, which won the Mississippi High School Class 5A State Championship in Jackson, Mississippi.
There are many clubs and activities at OSHS, including:
Football Player for the Detroit Lions
(Previously for the LSU Tigers
).
Ocean Springs, Mississippi
Ocean Springs is a city in Jackson County, Mississippi, United States, about east of Biloxi. It is part of the Pascagoula, Mississippi Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 17,225 at the 2000 census...
(United States). The school serves students in grades 9
Ninth grade
Ninth grade is the ninth post-kindergarten year of school education in some school systems. The students are 13 to 15 years of age, depending on when their birthday occurs. Depending on the school district, ninth grade is usually the first year of high school....
–12
Twelfth grade
Twelfth grade or Senior year, or Grade Twelve, are the North American names for the final year of secondary school. In most countries students then graduate at age 17 or 18. In some countries, there is a thirteenth grade, while other countries do not have a 12th grade/year at all...
and is part of the Ocean Springs School District
Ocean Springs School District
The Ocean Springs School District is a public school district based in Ocean Springs, Mississippi .In addition to Ocean Springs, the district also serves the Gulf Park Estates community.-Schools:*Ocean Springs High School...
. Its auditorium's roof collapsed in Hurricane Katrina
Hurricane Katrina
Hurricane Katrina of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season was a powerful Atlantic hurricane. It is the costliest natural disaster, as well as one of the five deadliest hurricanes, in the history of the United States. Among recorded Atlantic hurricanes, it was the sixth strongest overall...
, on August 29, 2005, but has since been rebuilt.
Campus
The school's campus is split into two major sections, which are both split into sub-sections.The first section is the north campus. The north campus is split into the main building and the 9th Grade Academy.
The main building houses the offices (Administrative, Main, Counseling, and Attendance) along with a set of English and Social Studies
Social studies
Social studies is the "integrated study of the social sciences and humanities to promote civic competence," as defined by the American National Council for the Social Studies...
classrooms, the Band
Band (music)
In music, a musical ensemble or band is a group of musicians that works together to perform music. The following articles concern types of musical bands:* All-female band* Big band* Boy band* Christian band* Church band* Concert band* Cover band...
and Choir
Choir
A choir, chorale or chorus is a musical ensemble of singers. Choral music, in turn, is the music written specifically for such an ensemble to perform.A body of singers who perform together as a group is called a choir or chorus...
Halls, and the Cafeteria.
Although the 9th Grade Academy houses mainly freshmen-level classes, including 9th grade Algebra I, Biology
Biology
Biology is a natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, distribution, and taxonomy. Biology is a vast subject containing many subdivisions, topics, and disciplines...
, English I, and remedial classes, it also is home to a few upper-level courses.
The south campus is split into the 15 Classroom Building (Math/Science Hall), the Round Building classrooms, the Media Center building, the gym, and the auditorium. The Auditorium was the only part of the school affected by Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and has been completely renovated since. It was completed January 2007.
In the 15 classroom building, the classes are primarily sciences (such as Chemistry
Chemistry
Chemistry is the science of matter, especially its chemical reactions, but also its composition, structure and properties. Chemistry is concerned with atoms and their interactions with other atoms, and particularly with the properties of chemical bonds....
, AP Chemistry
AP Chemistry
Advanced Placement Chemistry is a course and examination offered by the College Board as a part of the Advanced Placement Program to give American and Canadian high school students the opportunity to demonstrate their abilities and earn college-level credit.-The course:AP Chemistry is a course...
, AP Biology
AP Biology
In the United States, Advanced Placement Biology , is a course and examination offered by the College Board to high school students as an opportunity to earn placement credit for a college-level biology course....
, Anatomy and Physiology, Physics
Physics
Physics is a natural science that involves the study of matter and its motion through spacetime, along with related concepts such as energy and force. More broadly, it is the general analysis of nature, conducted in order to understand how the universe behaves.Physics is one of the oldest academic...
, and AP Physics), and Mathematics (upper-level Algebra I, Algebra II, Advanced Algebra, Accelerated and Regular Geometry
Geometry
Geometry arose as the field of knowledge dealing with spatial relationships. Geometry was one of the two fields of pre-modern mathematics, the other being the study of numbers ....
, Probability and Statistics, Pre-Calculus, AP Calculus AB and BC
AP Calculus
Advanced Placement Calculus is used to indicate one of two distinct Advanced Placement courses and examinations offered by the College Board, AP Calculus AB and AP Calculus BC....
).
The round building mainly has foreign languages (French and Spanish), health classes, and JROTC classes.
The principal of Ocean Springs High School until 2006 was Robert Hirsch. In the fall of 2006, David Lynn Baggett stepped in as the new principal. Robert Hirsch has since been elected as Superintendent.
New campus
, a new High School campus is being built.As it stands currently, the campus should be finished by the class of 2013's graduating year.
Extracurricular activities
The Ocean Springs High School sports team mascot is the GreyhoundGreyhound
The Greyhound is a breed of sighthound that has been primarily bred for coursing game and racing, and the breed has also recently seen a resurgence in its popularity as a pedigree show dog and family pet. It is a gentle and intelligent breed...
. OSHS has several sports teams, including Football
American football
American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...
, Track and Field
Track and field
Track and field is a sport comprising various competitive athletic contests based around the activities of running, jumping and throwing. The name of the sport derives from the venue for the competitions: a stadium which features an oval running track surrounding a grassy area...
, Swimming
Swimming (sport)
Swimming is a sport governed by the Fédération Internationale de Natation .-History: Competitive swimming in Europe began around 1800 BCE, mostly in the form of the freestyle. In 1873 Steve Bowyer introduced the trudgen to Western swimming competitions, after copying the front crawl used by Native...
, Cross Country
Cross country running
Cross country running is a sport in which people run a race on open-air courses over natural terrain. The course, typically long, may include surfaces of grass and earth, pass through woodlands and open country, and include hills, flat ground and sometimes gravel road...
, Fast and Slow pitch Softball
Softball
Softball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of 10 to 14 players. It is a direct descendant of baseball although there are some key differences: softballs are larger than baseballs, and the pitches are thrown underhand rather than overhand...
, Soccer, Volleyball
Volleyball
Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...
, Basketball
Basketball
Basketball 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...
, Golf
Golf
Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....
, Tennis
Tennis
Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...
, and Baseball
Baseball
Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...
. The high school is also the first in Mississippi to have a wrestling
Wrestling
Wrestling is a form of grappling type techniques such as clinch fighting, throws and takedowns, joint locks, pins and other grappling holds. A wrestling bout is a physical competition, between two competitors or sparring partners, who attempt to gain and maintain a superior position...
team.
The most recent sports award has gone to the 2008 Greyhound Baseball Team, which won the Mississippi High School Class 5A State Championship in Jackson, Mississippi.
There are many clubs and activities at OSHS, including:
- Model United NationsModel United NationsModel United Nations is an academic simulation of the United Nations that aims to educate participants about current events, topics in international relations, diplomacy and the United Nations agenda....
- Phi Kappa Nu Gamma
- National Honor SocietyNational Honor SocietyThe National Honor Society is a recognition program for high school students in grades 10-12 in the United States and in several other countries...
- Technology Student AssociationTechnology Student AssociationThe Technology Student Association is an international Career and Technical Student Organization made up of over 150,000 Middle School and High School Technology Education Students. TSA is the premier CTSO dedicated to STEM Standards: Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics...
(TSA) - Mu Alpha ThetaMu Alpha ThetaMu Alpha Theta is a United States mathematics honor society for high schools and two-year colleges. It has over 89,000 student members in more than 1,800 schools worldwide. Its main goals are to inspire keen interest in mathematics, develop strong scholarship in the subject, and promote the...
- ChessChessChess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...
Club - PhotographyPhotographyPhotography is the art, science and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film...
Club - Junior CivitanJunior Civitan InternationalJunior Civitan International is a student-led service organization for middle and high school students. There are 11,000 Junior Civitan members in 400 clubs in North America, Africa, Asia, and Europe. It is the longest lasting project of its parent organization Civitan International.-History:The...
- Help to Others (H2O)
- Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA)
- French Club
- Spanish Club
- Japanese Club
- Breakdance Club
- Foreign Language Choir
- Sound Hounds
- Skate Hounds
- Sign Language Club
Notable alumni
Richard DicksonRichard Dickson
Richard Phillip Dickson is an American football player who played for the Louisiana State Tigers during 2005-2009. He is the most productive tight end in school history with 90 receptions for 952 yards and 10 touchdowns. In 2010, he was signed by the Detroit Lions as an undrafted free...
Football Player for the Detroit Lions
Detroit Lions
The Detroit Lions are a professional American football team based in Detroit, Michigan. They are members of the North Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League , and play their home games at Ford Field in Downtown Detroit.Originally based in Portsmouth, Ohio and...
(Previously for the LSU Tigers
LSU Tigers
The LSU Tigers are the athletic teams of Louisiana State University. They participate in the NCAA's Division I, in the Southeastern Conference. It fields teams in 14 varsity sports . Its official team nickname is the Fighting Tigers and the school mascot is Mike the Tiger...
).
Other information
- The North Campus used to be the junior high school, which became a middle schoolMiddle schoolMiddle School and Junior High School are levels of schooling between elementary and high schools. Most school systems use one term or the other, not both. The terms are not interchangeable...
and was moved to its current area, and the high school consisted only of the current South Complex. The cafeteria was shared between the two schools, and the South Campus had its own office by the auditorium. - The South Campus was built in the late 1960s and the early 1970s. The North Campus was built in the late 1970s. Ever since then, the school has undergone many remodeling changes in order to accommodate different types of classes, such as the three Technology Discovery classrooms on the North Campus that must accommodate 13 rather large modules.
- In the 2003–04 football season, under the leadership of veteran seniors, the Greyhounds broke a ten-year losing streak, finishing 7–4. They suffered a final defeat at the hands of Picayune Memorial High School.
- In the 2004–05 football season, the Greyhounds reached the state championship against South Panola only to lose 21-39 in Jackson, MississippiJackson, MississippiJackson is the capital and the most populous city of the US state of Mississippi. It is one of two county seats of Hinds County ,. The population of the city declined from 184,256 at the 2000 census to 173,514 at the 2010 census...
. - In the 2007–08 baseball season, the Greyhounds won the 5A State Championship
- During the 2008-09 school year, Ocean Springs High School created the first public high school wrestling team in Mississippi.
- During the 2008-09 competition theater season, their competition team made it to state for the first time in five years with the show La DisputeLa DisputeLa Dispute is a prose comedy written by Pierre de Marivaux, shown for the first time on 19 October 1744 by the Theatre-Italien in the Hotel de Bourgogne....
. - During the 2009-10 competition theater season, their competition team made it to state with the show Children of a Lesser GodChildren of a Lesser GodChildren of a Lesser God is a 1986 American romantic drama film directed by Randa Haines and written by Hesper Anderson and Mark Medoff. An adaptation of Medoff's Tony Award-winning stage play of the same name, the film stars William Hurt and Marlee Matlin as two employees at a school for the deaf:...
.