Midland High School (Midland, Michigan)

Midland High School

Chemic Pride...A Very Special Tradition
Address
1301 Eastlawn Drive,
Midland, Michigan 48642
United States
Coordinates 43°37′13.69″N 84°12′45.29″W / 43.6204694°N 84.2125806°W / 43.6204694; -84.2125806Coordinates: 43°37′13.69″N 84°12′45.29″W / 43.6204694°N 84.2125806°W / 43.6204694; -84.2125806
Information
Type Public High School
Established 1872
Status Active/Open
School district Midland Public Schools
Superintendent Michael Sharrow
CEEB code 232585
NCES School ID 262382006060[1]
Principal Jeff Jaster
Athletic Director Eric Albright
Teaching staff 78[1]
Grades 9, 10, 11 & 12
Gender Co-ed
Enrollment 1,488[1]
Student to teacher ratio 19:1[1]
Language English
Hours in school day 7:40 a.m. – 3:25 p.m.
Campus size 25 acres (10 ha)
Campus type Suburban
Color(s) Blue & Gold
         
Fight song Chemic Fight Song & Mr. Touchdown USA
Athletics conference Saginaw Valley League, MHSAA
Mascot Vic the Lion [2]
Nickname Chemics
Rival H.H. Dow High School
Average ACT scores 28[3]
Newspaper Focus
Feeder schools Northeast Middle School
Class/Div Class A/Division 2
Website http://midps.org/mhs

Midland High School is a three-story public high school located in Midland, Michigan. It is the older of two high schools in the Midland Public Schools district, and a member of the Saginaw Valley High School Association.

History

IB Diploma

Both High Schools in Midland participate in the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme, the most widely recognized pre-university educational program. The challenging academic regimen is especially useful for students planning to study abroad and college admissions officers view the IB Diploma very favorably.

Midland High School

Activities

Midland High School provides its students with a wide array of extracurricular activities. Among them:

Athletics

The school's athletic director is Eric Albright, also History teacher for upper classmen and Chemic's varsity baseball coach.

Football: Midland High boasts an excellent football program, coached by Eric Methner, along with Assistants Matthew Starling, Pete Welter and Scott Albrecht. Albrecht and Starling are graduates of Midland High. The Chemics have posted consecutive winning seasons for the past 37 years (since 1976), the second longest streak in the history of the state of Michigan. Midland High has also earned eight consecutive playoff berths, and 20 overall since 1983. Since 1950, Midland High has had only 5 losing seasons. The annual Midland High vs. Dow High game is considered one of the biggest high school football games in the state of Michigan, generally drawing around 10,000 spectators. Midland has dominated the series with a 31-10 overall record. The Chemics have two state championships (1957 and 1968), and have made it to the state championship game three times since then (1990, 1993, 2007).

Wrestling: The Chemic wrestling team has won three straight district championships and the school's very first regional championship in 2009.[4] In the first round of the 2008 regional the Chemics were matched up with Davison and lost, a reversal of the 2007 football regional with MHS beating Davison.[5] The 2009 wrestling regional was again a match-up between MHS and Davison. The Chemics win was in turn a reversal of the 2008 football regional with Davison beating the Chemics.[6] The Chemic wrestlers lost 51-12 to Holt High School in the quarterfinal matchup on March 6, 2009, putting an end to their season.[7]

Midland Community Stadium, located on the west end of the MHS campus, was renovated in 2004 with AstroTurf XPe and is the home field of the Chemics' football, track & field and soccer teams. The stadium is also shared with Dow High School as their home field.

 

Fall sports

  • Football
  • Volleyball
  • Girls Swimming
  • Boys Cross Country
  • Girls Cross Country
  • Pom-Pon
  • Cheer
  • Boys Soccer
  • Boys Tennis
  • Girls Golf
  

Winter sports

  • Wrestling
  • Boys Basketball
  • Girls Basketball
  • Boys Swimming
  • Pom-Pon
  • Ping-Pong
  • Competitive Cheer
  • Hockey
  

Spring sports

  • Baseball
  • Softball
  • Lacrosse
  • Boys Track & Field
  • Girls Track & Field
  • Boys Golf
  • Girls Tennis
  • Girls Soccer

Newspaper

Midland High School's journalism curriculum publishes a monthly tabloid newspaper called Focus. The newspaper is run by the school's Advanced Journalism class, run by advisor Jim Woehrle. It typically runs between 16 and 20 pages, including a color front page as well as a center spread. The paper is a member of the Michigan Interscholastic Press Association out of Michigan State University.

Awards: Focus has been awarded the Newspaper Spartan Award, recognizing outstanding school newspapers in the state of Michigan 19 times in the last 20 years. It has also been nominated for, and has won, the National Scholastic Press Association's National Pacemaker Award, most recently in 2007.[9]

School Fight Song

Sung to the tune of "The Rangers' Song (March of the Rangers)", composed by Harry Tierney for the 1927 Broadway musical Rio Rita. The fight song is known as the "Chemic Fight Song" and is titled as such on the band's music scores. Mr. Touchdown USA is Midland High's second fight song.

Lyrics

We'll all stick together
Old MHS in all kinds of weather;
We're friends, not foes
With luck it goes
We'll fight for right with all our might;
We'll not show white feather.
Our team has the old pep;
We're marching onward step by step.
The blue and gold will have no fear,
We're always ready to cheer and cheer
For dear old Midland High.[1]

  1. ^ https://www.midlandps.org/sites/mhs/Site%20Assets/MHS-HB-2015-16.pdf

Chemic traditions

Notable alumni

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Search for Public Schools - School Detail for Midland High School". nces.ed.gov. Retrieved April 4, 2015.
  2. ↑ http://chemics.net/2014/11/17/vic-the-lion/
  3. ↑ "Midland High School - Educational Outcomes". k12.niche.com. Retrieved April 4, 2015.
  4. ↑ "Wrestling: Midland High 33, Escanaba 29". The Saginaw News. February 25, 2009. Retrieved February 25, 2009.
  5. ↑ "2007 MHSAA Football Playoff Scoreboard". Retrieved February 25, 2009.
  6. ↑ "2008 MHSAA Football Playoff Scoreboard". Retrieved February 25, 2009.
  7. ↑ "MHSAA 2009 Team State Finals Division 1 bout sheet". March 7, 2009. Retrieved March 7, 2009.
  8. ↑ "Midland High School Athletics Student/Parent Handbook" (PDF). Midland Public Schools. Retrieved April 18, 2012.
  9. ↑ "2007 NSPA Newspaper Pacemaker Winners". Retrieved October 5, 2010.
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