Polytech High School is located in Woodside, Delaware

Woodside, Delaware

Woodside is a town in Kent County, Delaware, United States. It is part of the Dover, Delaware Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 181 at the 2010 census.-Geography:Woodside is located at ....

. Polytech High School is a vocational high school that was a vocational school in the 1960s and changed to a regular high school in 1991. Polytech takes all students in Kent County

Kent County, Delaware

Kent County is a county located in the central part of the U.S. state of Delaware. It is coextensive with the Dover, Delaware, Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of 2010 the population was 162,310, a 28.1% increase over the previous decade. The county seat is Dover, the state capital...

 Delaware

Delaware

Delaware is a U.S. state located on the Atlantic Coast in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. It is bordered to the south and west by Maryland, and to the north by Pennsylvania...

 which they start off in freshman year. At Polytech the students will go through a shop rotation so they can choose a shop to major in during their high school years.

Academics

"POLYTECH High School, designated a "SUPERIOR" school by the Delaware Department of Education, is a comprehensive technical high school with more than 1,100 students offering specialty training in twenty-one different technical programs of study. POLYTECH places an emphasis upon "higher expectations" for all students and operates in an academy environment that stresses curriculum integration."

Academies & Shops

Industrial	Professional Services	Health & Medical Services	Modern Technology	Educational Foundations
Building Construction	Business Education	Nursing	Computer Aided Drafting
Electrical Construction	Cosmetology	Dental Assisting	Computer Engineering Technology
Auto Body	Criminal Justice	Healthcare & Rehabilitation	Electronics Technology
Masonry	Environmental Science	Medical Assisting	Aviation
Welding		Early Childhood Education	Radio & TV
Auto Tech			Visual Communications

Athletics

The Polytech athletics program has experienced success in soccer, 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...

, 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...

, field hockey

Field hockey

Field Hockey, or Hockey, is a team sport in which a team of players attempts to score goals by hitting, pushing or flicking a ball into an opposing team's goal using sticks...

, 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...

, 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...

, and lacrosse

Lacrosse

Lacrosse is a team sport of Native American origin played using a small rubber ball and a long-handled stick called a crosse or lacrosse stick, mainly played in the United States and Canada. It is a contact sport which requires padding. The head of the lacrosse stick is strung with loose mesh...

; all have had winning seasons in recent years. Polytech won the girls basketball tournament in 2003 lead by Tyresa Smith

Tyresa Smith

Tyresa Smith was the 18th overall pick in the 2007 WNBA Draft and was selected in the second round by the Phoenix Mercury. Smith was selected from the University of Delaware where she was the team's second all-time leading scorer and became the first player from UD to be drafted in the WNBA draft...

, the schools only state championship in any sport, ranking them last of all teams in the conference. Polytech High School participates in athletics in the Henlopen Conference

Henlopen Conference

The Henlopen Conference is a high school sports conference comprising public schools in Kent County and Sussex County in lower Delaware. The teams participate in a variety of sports including football, boys and girls soccer, track and field, cross country, boys and girls basketball, boys and girls...

 and is one of the largest high schools in the conference based on enrollment, thereby competing in the Henlopen North. In addition, Polytech High School's rivals are Sussex Tech

Sussex Technical High School

Sussex Technical High School is a public high school in Georgetown, Delaware. Its enrolment at last count was roughly 1,200 students. As a choice school, each year over 600 eighth-grade students in Sussex County apply for 300 openings. Its mascot is a raven....

, Smyrna, Caesar Rodney

Caesar Rodney School District

The Caesar Rodney School District is a public school district based in Wyoming, Delaware . The current superintendent is Dr. Kevin Fitzgerald, former principal of the high school.-Geography:The district covers a area in central Kent County....

, Dover and other schools in the Henlopen North.