Garfield Heights High School

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Garfield Heights High School is a public high school located in Garfield Heights, Ohio, about 10 miles southeast of downtown Cleveland, Ohio. It is part of the Garfield Heights City School District. The school currently contains approximately 1500 students. The mascot is the Bulldog and the school colors are navy blue and gold. The current Principal is Tammy Hager.New Performing Arts CenterGarfield Heights Board of Education presented the grand opening of the performing arts center on November 3, 2007. The building includes a 792-seat Auditorium, a make-up room, a storage room, several changing rooms for Music Express, Drama performers, and Band members,and two classrooms, one being the Band room, and another for the Choral department.HistoryThe school has recently received an "Effective" rating from the state of Ohio, the third highest rating a school can achieve. The district is fed by its own middle school and by three nearby parochial schools.AthleticsThe school's athletic teams are known as the Bulldogs and are independent of a league beginning with 2015-16. They had been members of the Northeast Ohio Conference, from 2007-2015 with the exception of the Ice Hockey team which belongs to the Greater Cleveland High School Hockey League Blue Division. The school fields athletic teams in football, Track & Field. Also wrestling, baseball, soccer, tennis, golf, basketball, softball, and hockey. The Ohio High School Athletic Association approved bowling as a sanctioned sport starting in the 2006-2007 school year. The 2005-2006 bowling team won a division and league championship.Basketball teamThe Garfield Heights High School boys’ basketball team won the 2008 Northeast Ohio Conference Championship after posting a 20-1 record. In the Warrensville Heights district they defeated Nordonia before being upset by Cleveland Heights in the semifinals. The 2010-2011 team reached the state Final Four before falling to Columbus North in the Division 1 semifinal game.