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Wheeling Park High School, in Wheeling, West Virginia, United States, is the only public high school serving Ohio County, West Virginia. Approximately 1,630 students in grades 9-12 attend.

The school opened for the 1976-1977 academic year following the consolidation of Wheeling, Triadelphia, and Warwood high schools.

Academics

Advanced placement

Wheeling Park offers 12 Advanced Placement courses: Biology, Calculus AB, Calculus BC, English Language, English Literature, Geography, Physics B, Physics C, Political Science, U.S. History, World History, Statistics, Chemistry.

There are also courses that can be taken for college credit through West Liberty University and West Virginia Northern Community College.

West Virginia Educational Standards Test

West Virginia uses the West Virginia Educational Standards Test (WESTEST) to assess their students' proficiency levels by grade level.

Students at Wheeling Park exceeded the state average in every category in 2009:

• Math - Grade 11: 61% proficient compared to 59% state average
• Reading - Grade 11: 59% proficient compared to 52% state average
• Social Studies - Grade 11: 69% proficient compared to 63% state average

WVSSAC sanctioned athletic state championship history

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• Golf: 2002, 2010, 2011 Boys cc:1986, 2007, 2008, Girls cc: 1984
• Boys basketball: 1980, 1995, (2010, 2011 state runner-up)
• Girls basketball: 1998,1999
• Football: 1991 state runner -up
• Cheering: 1989
• Boys soccer: 1991, 2001
• Girls soccer:1998, 1999, 2000, 2001
• Boys tennis: 2006
• Wrestling: 1977,1978,1981,1986,1987, 2006
• Girls track: 1995
• Boys track :1978,1979,1988, 2007

Campus

The high school building houses physical education, special education, technical education, and regular education. The building is 860 feet long and 550 feet wide for a total of 473,000 square feet. There are three floors of masonry block insulation with brick veneer. Additional education wings added in 1984 on both ends of the building comprise 7750 square feet. Three gymnasiums, a fitness center, wrestling room, and indoor Olympic-sized pool make up the Physical Education department. "The Palace", located in the main building, is one of the largest gymnasiums in the Wheeling area. Inside the school building, the Phyllis A. Beneke Theatre, The Media Center and the Food Court areas are the main common spaces. The Technology Center complex on the second floor consists of two computer labs, and a large lecture hall. The music department is home to private recording studios, a piano lab, and two large practice halls. The Career and Technical Department consists of multiple computer, electronics, graphic design, and engineering laboratories. The school also houses the only Mac Computer Lab in the Ohio Valley. The basement of the school is home to the auto mechanics shop, collision repair, welding, machine tool technology, building construction, and power equipment systems classes. There are four lighted tennis courts, and eight-lane track and adjoining baseball, softball, football and soccer fields which complete the entire 52 acre complex. The JB Chambers Performing Arts Center on the campus opened in March 2012.

Fine and performing arts

Wheeling Park is also home to bands, choral ensembles, and orchestral groups. Additionally, Wheeling Park is widely considered to have the best high school music program in West Virginia and the Upper Ohio Valley. Furthermore, the school's speech and debate team has won 34 consecutive state championships, and its Concert Band has achieved 27 consecutive "superior" ratings at Region 1 Band Festival.

Wheeling Park also is the home to a forensics team, which in 2013 won their 34th consecutive state championship.

Wheeling Park's Radio Station

WPHP is an FM station operated by WHPS students which broadcasts across parts of West Virginia, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. It broadcasts to nine counties. It broadcasts at 100 watts on the frequency 91.9 FM.. Its format is Pop Contemporary Hits Radio.

J.B. Chambers Performing Arts Center

The J.B. Chambers Performing Arts Center is a state-of-the-art, 1,200-seat performance theater on the campus of Wheeling Park High School. It provides the staff and students of Ohio County Schools with a 21st-century venue for teaching and learning. It also serves as the cultural hub for expansion of the arts within the school system and is an extension of the classroom for art, music, theater, speech, television and radio students. The Performing Arts Center is available to elementary, middle and high school students and to groups in the community. The venue features dress-circle seating, a mezzanine and two galleries. It also has a 30-by-50-foot set construction shop and multiple dressing rooms. The rigging for the stage is all motorized and controlled by touch-screen computer. There is also a professional concert-grade audio system and computer controlled lighting. The Performing Arts Center cost approximately $10 million. The project is being funded by a $5 million grant from the West Virginia School Building Authority and private donations.

Notable alumni

• Jean Chatzky, financial journalist
• Chuck Howley, former NFL football player
• Joko Anwar, Indonesian filmmaker
• Rick Schneider-Calabash, animation producer, writer, director

References

1. http://wvde.state.wv.us/ed_directory/index.html?county_id=64&school_id=501
2. http://wvde.state.wv.us/ed_directory/index.html?county_id=64&school_id=501
3. Homefacts Website: Wheeling Park High School
4. http://theintelligencer.net/page/content.detail/id/566941/School-Raises-the-Curtain-On-Peforming-Arts-Center.html?nav=515
5. Hicks, Ian (10 March 2012). "The Kings of Speech". Theintelligencer.net. The Intelligencer / Wheeling News-Register. Retrieved 8 November 2011.
6. http://www.radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=WPHP&service=FM&status=L&hours=U
7. http://www1.arbitron.com/sip/displaySip.do?surveyID=WI13&band=fm&callLetter=WPHP

• Public high schools in West Virginia
• Schools in Ohio County, West Virginia
• Educational institutions established in 1976
• Buildings and structures in Wheeling, West Virginia