District Programs
WCS Opportunities
Agricultural Education
Wilmington High School has thriving Agricultural Education program. Our FFA Chapter has 93 active AET students that are developing their potential for premier leadership, personal growth, and career success through agricultural education.
Athletics
We have 18 sports in grades 7-12 that serve approximately 450 students. We retain quality coaches that are a mix of strong community members and district staff members. Our athletic teams are proud members of the Southern Buckeye Athletic and Academic Conference. Our goal as an athletic department is to teach the values of teamwork, pride, respect, commitment, work ethic, sportsmanship and develop the proper winning attitude. It is our hope that through participation in Hurricane Athletics, student athletes will adopt these guidelines and develop a positive winning attitude that will carry over into different aspects of their lives.
Technology
Wilmington City Schools is a GSuite district currently supporting over 3000 chrome devices district wide. Age-appropriate access to technology is provided at every grade level in the district.
At Wilmington High School, every individual student has a personal Chromebook for their educational needs. Students have the opportunity to take the device home each night, enabling students to learn at school or on-the-go.
Wilmington High School has a help desk for school issued chromebooks called the Cane Tech Squad. This organization is a student-run computer support program where students and teachers can get technology help throughout the school day. Some of the services they provide are as follows: Chromebook Loaners, Chromebook Repair, Chromebook Secure Charging Station, Google Apps for Education support, Teacher Tech Support, and Student Tech Project Support.
Fine and Performing Arts
WCSD students have access to the arts at all levels of education. General Music and Art classes are offered K-5. Instrumental Music (Band) and Choir are offered to students starting in the 6th Grade. At WHS, students are offered courses in Music (Band, Choir, and general music courses), Theatre, and Art. Wilmington City Schools has been recognized by the National Association of Music Merchants as a “Best Community for Music Education” every year since 2018. Follow these links to the programs websites:
Peer Autism Team
Students are trained by the District Autism Team on ASD characteristics. The students then utilize their learning with students who are identified. Planned activities during the day and extracurricular events are organized to help build relationships and connections to the school. Most recently, our Peer Autism Team learned how to incorporate our new Buddy Benches into their outreach to students.
Project Lead the Way
From launching space explorations to delivering safe, clean water to communities, engineers find solutions to pressing problems and turn their ideas into reality. PLTW Engineering empowers students to step into the role of an engineer, adopt a problem-solving mindset, and make the leap from dreamers to doers. The program’s courses engage students in compelling, real-world challenges that help them become better collaborators and thinkers. Students take from the courses in-demand knowledge and skills they will use in high school and for the rest of their lives, on any career path they take.
Our program is a satellite partnership between WCS and Great Oaks Career Campuses. We have courses in all grade levels that explore different disciplines in the engineering field. We had our first four-year program graduates in 2019 with a class of 12 students.
