Wyoming High School (WHS) is a public high school located in Wyoming, Ohio, United States, a suburb of Cincinnati. The school is operated by the Wyoming City School District, in Hamilton County. The district serves students from the city of Wyoming and parts of surrounding Springfield Township.
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Academics
Wyoming High School offers a range of Advanced Placement (AP) courses. Wyoming also offers various music opportunities, including two string orchestras, a band, and multiple choir programs. There are also many other courses offered in the visual arts, such as Computer Graphics and Photography, as well as three separate AP art classes. Foreign languages offered are Spanish, French, and Latin, each with levels I through V (AP).
Extracurriculars
Also of note is Wyoming's outstanding drama program, which is based in the Pendery Center Auditorium, a state-of-the-art facility that was completed in the year 2000. Two full-length plays and one musical are presented each year. Recent productions include Miracle Worker (2017), Games Afoot (2017), Sound of Music (2017), and Merry Wives of Winsor (2016).
Often placing at competitions of each, Wyoming's Latin Club functions as a local chapter of both the Ohio Junior Classical League (OJCL) and National Junior Classical League (NJCL).
As of May 2025, the list of extra-curricular activities was as follows:
WYOMUN
First established in 2014, WYOMUN is a Model United Nations conference run by the Wyoming High School Model United Nations Club. The conference annually hosts over 250 high school and middle school students from around the Greater Cincinnati Area. Its twelfth iteration happened on October 25, 2025.
WYOMUN has featured a host of committees including the World Health Organization, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, and the League of Nations. WYOMUN has also featured non-UN crisis committees on a variety of topics such as the Vietnam War, the Chicano Movement, the Kingdom of Kamehameha, the Arab Spring and the Seven Years' War, and has occasionally ventured into pop culture with a committee on Stranger Things from Netflix, as well as one on the Harry Potter series.
Each year, WYOMUN invites keynote speakers to address its delegates during opening ceremonies. Notable recent speakers have been Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown, President of the Puerto Rican Senate and current gubernatorial candidate Eduardo Bhatia, and Indiana University Maurer School of Law Vice President of International Affairs Hannah L. Buxbaum. The keynote speaker for WYOMUN VII was the distinguished former ambassador Thomas Boyatt. Notable alumni include.
Athletics
Wyoming offers 24 varsity sports, which include:
State championships
Boys football – 1977, 2018
Boys track and field – 1950
Girls basketball – 1996
Boys soccer - 2021
Boys Basketball - 2026
Controversy
In 2023 three high school boys were arrested and charged for the rape of another student. The incident took place after a baseball practice with the assailants and victim being members of the Junior Varsity baseball team. The victim was also said to have autism and ADHD. One of the students was charged with one count of rape, three counts of kidnapping, and one count of hazing. Another one of the students was charged with one count of gross sexual imposition, three counts of kidnapping, and one count of hazing. The third student was charged with one count of gross sexual imposition, two counts of kidnapping, and one count of hazing.
One of the students plead guilty to a misdemeanor hazing charge and a felony abduction charge and was sentenced to probation until he turned 21. The other two students took plea deals and were sentenced to a similar probation as the other student. The Wyoming High School superintendent ensured that the incident did not reflect the values of Wyoming High School but concerns were brought up about the culture in Wyoming athletics and baseball that allowed such an incident to happen. As a result, the Junior Varsity baseball coach was fired and the athletics director was fired just months later.
Notable alumni
William G. Bowen, former president, Princeton University and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Thomas D. Boyatt, former U.S. Ambassador to Burkina Faso (1978–1980) and Colombia (1980–1983)
Robert Brewster, American football player
Deena Deardurff, American swimmer, 1972 Olympic Gold medalist in 4 × 100 m medley.
John R. Fox, 1st Lieutenant, United States Army, Posthumous awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for bravery in Italy during the Second World War.
Bob Goodridge, American football player
William Greider, writer
B. Todd Jones, chief disciplinary officer of the National Football League, former Director of Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives former U.S. Attorney (Minnesota); partner at Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi
Ruston Kelly, singer-songwriter
C.F. Payne, illustrator
David Payne, USA Track Team member (2008) Olympic Silver Medalist
John Weld Peck II, judge
Ahmed Plummer, American football player
P. J. Pope, American football player
Jeff Russell, baseball player
David Shenk, writer
Sean Smith, American football player