Chalker High School


Chalker High School is a public high school in Southington Township, [Trumbull County, Ohio]. It is the only high school in the Southington Local School District. Athletic teams are known as the Wildcats and compete in the Ohio High School Athletic Association as a member of the Northeastern Athletic Conference. Since 2011, Chalker High School is housed at the Southington K–12 building. The original Chalker High School building, built in 1907, still stands adjacent to the district athletic fields. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the Southington Township School, which includes the adjacent 1907 elementary school and the 1910 Civil War monument between the two buildings.

History

Chalker High School is named for Newton Chalker, an attorney who was born in Southington in 1842. Chalker created an endowment for the high school when schools in the township agreed to consolidate smaller schools in a central location. The town agreed to consolidation, and the original campus was completed in 1907, consisting of the Chalker High School building and a smaller elementary school. Newton Chalker agreed to pay for Chalker High school, as long as the townspeople would pay for the elementary school building, which was not nearly as grand, totaling $6,000 as compared to the Chalker Building's $20,000. The high school was constructed in the Neoclassical Revival architectural style, including fluted columns and a pedimented gable. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on February 4, 2011.
The current Chalker High School and the Southington Local Schools K–12 campus was built on land donated by Mr. and Mrs. Donaldson, both residents of Southington. Classes began in the fall of 2011 in the new building.

Athletics

Chalker High School currently offers:

Beta Club

Beta club is the school's academic honors program that heavily emphasizes community service. Students must maintain a 3.0 grade point average and fulfill 10 hours of community service to maintain membership. It is affiliated with the National Beta Club organization.

National Honor Society

The school's chapter of the National Honor Society recognizes students who excel in the program's main criteria of scholarship, service, leadership, and character.

Notable alumni