Mariemont High School


Mariemont High School is a public high school located in a suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio. Mariemont is part of the Mariemont City School District. Mariemont High School is known for its high academic standards. Mariemont has been a Blue Ribbon School of Excellence four separate times. The years include 1984-85, 1988–89, 2001–02, 2004-05. Mariemont is the first to receive this award four times in the state of Ohio and the fourth nationwide.

History

The school was originally housed in the building that now holds Mariemont Elementary School. The current structure was constructed in 1970, designed by architects Baxter, Hodell, Donnelly and Preston. A large portion of the building featured an open, modular design with hexagonal "pods" with department offices in the center. The pods had no walls or clearly defined borders between areas, no corridors, and no windows. Their size was described as equivalent to six standard classrooms. Students were relatively free to move about within the pods. Subjects requiring seclusion, such as music, were in more traditional classrooms.
The open design was soon found to make it difficult for students, with one staff member estimating that 20% of students could not function in the open, self-directed environment. Within a few years, bookcases and partitions were used to break up the pods into classroom-like areas, but in many cases it was still possible to hear adjacent classes.
A project to remove and replace the pods with modern classrooms began in 2019.

Extra curricular

Chess Club

Music

The Mariemont Indoor Drumline was the champion ensemble of the Tristate Circuit in 2007, 2009 and 2010.

Latin Club

Mariemont's Latin Club functions as a local chapter of both the Ohio Junior Classical League and National Junior Classical League.

The Warpath

The Warpath is Mariemont High School's student newspaper. They have moved from being a print publication to an online publication. Newer online issues are printed on the actual website, but previous issued have had to be accessed through Adobe. Editors of the paper also write the stories published and do the layout. Students can enroll in the journalism class after their freshman year to work on the paper.

Sports

Mariemont is part of the Cincinnati Hills League. It is a small school league with other small schools from mostly east of Cincinnati. Other schools include Deer Park, Finneytown, Indian Hill, Madeira, Reading, Taylor, and Wyoming. Mariemont offers 24 varsity sports.

Ohio High School Athletic Association State Championships