Medina High School provides unparalleled learning opportunities through personalized education.
Innovation and Achievement
MHS provides its students with one of the best educational opportunities in the state and offers educational space for 2,400 students. The technological advancements to the building allow the high school to provide a thoroughly modern learning environment where students and community members benefit from partnerships with the City of Medina, the Medina County Performing Arts Foundation, the Medina Community Recreation Center, Medina General Hospital, and the University of Akron.
A Personalized Learning Community
Recognizing that one high school for as many as 2,400 students would clearly result in an expansive facility, the community expressed its concern that much of the facility planning effort be directed toward creating smaller learning communities that would help achieve a personalized education for each student. The district engaged in extensive research that documented the benefits of personalized learning, in which each student has an opportunity to bring " a unique variety of strengths, gifts, talents, and dreams to the learning experience." The district recognized that close relationships with a caring faculty would be instrumental to the success of this vision.
Through the renovation and expansion, Medina High School was redeisigned to facilitate a "school-within-a-school" concept. Students in grades 9-12 are randomly divided into four houses that accommodate up to 600 students each. Together, two houses compose one "neighborhood." Each house has it own core academic areas, with a dedicated staff that includes a principal and a guidance counselor. Students remain in their houses all four years, working with a consistent team of administrators.
While students stay in their house for the core academic classes, they share art, music, technology education, family and consumer science, and physical education facilities that are centrally located. Food is prepared centrally in a large commercial kitchen/food court serving area and distributed to two neighborhood cafeterias. This careful configuration of space and resources allows students the benefits of both an intimate, small-school environment as well as the expansive public facilities - including a field house, pool, recreation center, and fully appointed performing arts center - that typically only a larger school can offer.
A Tradition of Excellence
Medina High School continues to enjoy a statewide reputation for excellence. Last year the state of Ohio rated Medina High School as an "Excellent" school. This identification came as a result of the school's performance on the State of Ohio Building Report Card. Our comprehensive four-year high school provides a commitment to academic, artistic and athletic excellence. Additionally, the student body actively enhances the community through a wide variety of volunteering and leadership opportunities. The school offers courses in art, business, language arts, mathematics, social studies, science, family and consumer science, computer technology, industrial technology, foreign languages, physical education, publications and vocational experiences.
In collaboration with the University of Akron, the distance learning classroom enables qualified students to participate in the Post-Secondary Option Program. Classes are offered daily and allow selected students to earn both high school and college credit.
Medina High School offers 31 Accelerated and Advanced Placement courses in language arts, mathematics, science, social studies, foreign languages, art and music.