Thomas Worthington High School ("TWHS") is located in Worthington, Ohio

Worthington, Ohio

-Dissolution of the Company:By August 11, 1804 the plat maps were completed, payments or notes promising payments collected and deeds prepared for all sixteen thousand acres of the Scioto Company's purchase...

, TWHS has historically been among the top performing high schools in Ohio in terms of academics. The school was formerly named Worthington High School until the 1991 opening of Worthington Kilbourne High School

Worthington Kilbourne High School

Worthington Kilbourne High School is located in Columbus, Ohio and is part of the Worthington City School District. The school had an enrollment of approximately 1,357 students in the 2009-2010 school year. Kilbourne was named after James Kilbourne, the founder of the city of Worthington. The...

Thomas Worthington is the largest school in the Worthington City School District

Worthington City School District

The Worthington City School District includes the city of Worthington, village of Riverlea, and neighboring portions of the city of Columbus, Ohio. There are approximately 50,000 people residing in the area...

. The Thomas Worthington mascot is the cardinal

Cardinal (bird)

The Cardinals or Cardinalidae are a family of passerine birds found in North and South America. The South American cardinals in the genus Paroaria are placed in another family, the Thraupidae ....

, and the school colors are red and blue. There are approximately 1700 students. 2006-2007 principal Dr. Richard Littell stepped down from his position Tuesday, July 10, 2007 for a position teaching English at the nearby Worthington Kilbourne High School. Jim Gaskill has filled the position of principal since the 2007-2008 school year.http://www.worthington.k12.oh.us/schools/TWHS/index.html

Students from Thomas Worthington primarily come from Kilbourne and Worthingway Middle Schools. They also come from Phoenix Middle School, the alternative school, if they would otherwise have gone to Kilbourne or Worthingway.

Academics

http://www.city-data.com/school/thomas-worthington-high-school-oh.html

Ohio Report Card
http://www.ode.state.oh.us/gd/templates/pages/ode/odedetail.aspx?page=279

Clubs and organizations

Thomas Worthington offers many clubs and organizations to its students.

• In-the-Know - An academic quiz team
• Jazz Band
• Theatre- Thomas Worthington Boasts one of the top schools for theatre in the state.
• Latin Club - functions as a local chapter of both the Ohio Junior Classical League (OJCL) and National Junior Classical League
  National Junior Classical League
  The National Junior Classical League is a youth organization of secondary school students sponsored by the American Classical League...
  
   (NJCL).
• Marching Band

* OMEA State Superior Rating in 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011

• Mock Trial
  Mock trial
  A Mock Trial is an act or imitation trial. It is similar to a moot court, but mock trials simulate lower-court trials, while moot court simulates appellate court hearings. Attorneys preparing for a real trial might use a mock trial consisting of volunteers as role players to test theories or...
  
   Team - A team that competes in the Ohio High School Mock Trial competition
• Pit Orchestra
• Science Olympiad
  Science Olympiad
  Science Olympiad is an American elementary, middle, or high school team competition which tests knowledge of various science topics and engineering ability. Over 6,200 teams from 49 U.S. states compete each year. Most teams compete in three levels of competition: regionals, states, and nationals...
  
  
• Student Council
  Student council
  Student council is a curricular or extra-curricular activity for students within elementary and secondary schools around the world. Present in most public and private K-12 school systems across the United States, Canada and Australia these bodies are alternatively entitled student council, student...
  
  

Athletics

The following sports are available to students

• Baseball
• Basketball
• Cheerleading
• Cross Country
• Field Hockey
• Football
• Golf
• Gymnastics
• Ice hockey
• Lacrosse
• Marching Band
• Soccer
• Softball
• Swimming
• Tennis
• Track and Field
• Volleyball
• Water Polo
• Wrestling

Ohio High School Athletic Association State Championships

• Boys 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...
  
   - 1981
• Boys 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....
  
   - 1938,1978,1983
• Boys Soccer - 1991,1998,2001
• Boys Track
  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...
  
   - 1997,1999
• Boys 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...
  
   - 1967
• Girls 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...
  
   - 1989,1992
• Girls 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...
  
   - 1988, 2007, 2011
• Girls Gymnastics
  Gymnastics
  Gymnastics is a sport involving performance of exercises requiring physical strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, and balance. Internationally, all of the gymnastic sports are governed by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique with each country having its own national governing body...
  
   - 1985,1986,1987,1988,1989
• Girls 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...
  
   - 1977,1978,1980,1981,1989

Other athletic accomplishments

• State Champions - Boys Water Polo
  Water polo
  Water polo is a team water sport. The playing team consists of six field players and one goalkeeper. The winner of the game is the team that scores more goals. Game play involves swimming, treading water , players passing the ball while being defended by opponents, and scoring by throwing into a...
  
  * - 2002, 2003
• Boys 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...
  
  ** - 1989,1990,1991,1996

Track and Field: 2011 4x200m State Champions (K. Girgis, A. Maetzold, A. Austin, N. Kyeremeh)
http://cron.flocasts.org/coverage/238841-OHSAA-Ohio-Outdoor-Track-Field-Championships-2011/video/494553-Thomas-Worthington-D1-Boys-4x2-State-Champ

*Sponsored by the Ohio High School Swim Coaches Association

**Sponsored by the Ohio High School Lacrosse Association

Notable alumni

• Rachael Harris
  Rachael Harris
  Rachael Elaine Harris is an American actress and comedian.-Early life:Harris was born in Worthington, Ohio. She graduated from Worthington High School...
  
  
• Jim Kammerud
  Jim Kammerud
  Jim Kammerud is an American director, writer, producer and animator, best known for his work with the Walt Disney Company.Kammerud attended the Ohio State University in the mid-1980s. There he developed his cartooning style by working as an editorial cartoonist, as well as creating the comic...
  
  
• Troy Perkins
  Troy Perkins
  Troy Perkins is an American soccer player who currently plays for Portland Timbers in Major League Soccer.-College and amateur:...
  
  
• Jeff Smith
  Jeff Smith (cartoonist)
  Jeff Smith is an American cartoonist, best known as the creator of the self-published comic book series Bone. His current series, RASL, focuses on an art thief who hops through dimensional barriers, hiding out on various parallel worlds.-Early life and education:Jeff Smith was born in McKees...
  
  
• Maggie Grace
  Maggie Grace
  Margaret Grace Denig , best known as Maggie Grace, is an American actress. Originally from Worthington, Ohio, she dropped out of high school to move to Los Angeles with her mother after her parents' divorce. While struggling financially, she landed her first role as the title character in the...
  
  
• Jack Plotnick
  Jack Plotnick
  Jack Stuart Plotnick is an American film and television actor.Born in Worthington, Ohio, Plotnick is based in Hollywood...
  
  
• Dana Tyler
  Dana Tyler
  Dana Tyler is a senior news anchor and reporter at WCBS-TV in New York City. She currently anchors the 6 pm newscasts with Chris Wragge, and also hosts Eye on New York, a half-hour weekly community affairs program for WCBS, as well as annual local specials CBS 2 at Tony's, CBS 2 at the Met and...
  
  
• Stanley Bahorek
  Stanley Bahorek
  Stanley Bahorek is an American actor. Bahorek grew up in Worthington, Ohio and attended the University Of Michigan. He has worked with Deaf West Theater...
  
  
• David Ayers
  David Ayers
  David Ayers is an American actor, from Worthington, Ohio, USA. He attended Thomas Worthington High School and was very active in its theatre program. He Then attended Northwestern University Majoring in Vocal Performance...