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 The Clay Local School District is located just north of Portsmouth, Ohio, in Scioto County--which is approximately 85 miles south of Columbus, Ohio; 50 miles west of Huntington, West Virginia; and 100 miles east of Cincinnati, Ohio.  [SCIOTO CO. MAP]  The district has three seperate academic buidlings.  Clay Junior-Senior High School (7-12) is located on U.S. 23 approximately 3 miles north of the Portsmouth city limits. [MAP

Academically, Clay is considered one of the "best" schools in Southeastern Ohio.  While class sizes are small, Clay offers many unique opportunities for its students including both curricular and extracurricular activities, including AP courses, Chemistry II, economics, and physics.  Recent graduates have attended/graduated from such universities/colleges as Berea College, Cornell, DaytonEastern Kentucky, Marshall, Miami (OH), Morehead State University, Ohio UniversityOhio Northern, Purdue, Shawnee State, St. BonaventureThe Ohio State University, Transylvania, University of Cincinnati, University of Kentucky, Valparaiso, West Point, Wittenburg, and Wright State.  Our staff members have also attended/graduated from many of these same institutions.  Clay's graduating classes, which average about 35 students, have received in excess of $300,000 each year in scholarship money.  The 2007 Clay graduating class was offered close to $450,000 in scholarships. [ACADEMIC REPORT CARD][GUIDANCE DEPT.] [OPEN ENROLLMENT]

The Clay Local School District is a "small division" school in every Ohio High School Athletic Association sports' division. The school participates in nine OHSAA sanctioned sports--baseball, boys' and girls' basketball, cross country, boys' golf (co-ed), boys' soccer (co-ed), fast pitch softball, boys' tennis (co-ed), and girls' volleyball. We also field boys' and girls' basketball, golf, and volleyball teams in our junior high.  Our enrollment, grades 7-12, is around 300 strong with approximately 170 students in grades nine through twelve. [ATHLETIC DEPT.

There are ten school districts and eleven high schools in our county along with one parochial school as well several private and community schools. [SOUTH CENTRAL OHIO EDUCATIONAL SERVICE CENTER]  Our athletic affiliation is with the Ohio High School Athletic Association (OHSAA) and the Southern Ohio Conference (S.O.C.), which has sixteen member schools and is divided into two divisions (SOC I & SOC II) based on the schools' enrollment. The S.O.C. includes teams from four different Ohio counties--Jackson County (Oak Hill), Lawrence County (Symmes Valley), Pike County (Waverly, Eastern, and Western), and Scioto County (Clay, Franklin Furnace Green, Glenwood/New Boston, East-Sciotoville Community, Lucasville Valley, McDermott Northwest, Minford, Portsmouth West, Notre Dame, South Webster, and Wheelersburg).  [History of the SOC]

In athletics, the Clay softball team has won three OHSAA State Championships--1980, 1981, & 1983. They were 79-1 in those three years under the direction of Carol Vice, a member of the Clay Hall of Fame. In 1979 and 1988, they were runner-up. The softball team has won (as of 2009) 23 league titles, 30 sectional titles, 22 district titles, and 10 regional titles along with their state championship banners. The softball team is the only team from Scioto County to ever win a state championship. In fact, the team was in the Final Four eight out of the 11 years from 1978 to 1988. Carol and Clay Vice and Teresa Ruby (2009), a former player and coach, have their names/stars on the Portsmouth Wall of Fame in honor of their success and contributions to the Portsmouth area.  

Our girls' basketball team went to the OHSAA Final Four in 1980. They are still the only girls' Scioto County team and one of only two in the S.O.C. (Oak Hill being the other one) to reach that level.  Terri Boldman, a member of the Clay Hall of Fame and current high school assistant principal, guided the girls to the OHSAA Final Four.  They have won 3 league titles (1980, 2005, & 2005-06), 13 sectional titles, 2 district titles, and 1 regional title. 

Our boys' basketball team made it that far in 1969 under the direction of Arch Justus, who is also a member of the Clay Hall of Fame and the Ohio Basketball Coaches Hall of Fame.  They have also won 14 league titles (most recently in 2004-5), 23 sectional titles, 3 district titles, and one regional title. 

While these three sports may have garnered the spotlight in years past, Clay teams have won numerous league, sectional, district, regional, and state titles.  The boys' baseball team won the Regional in 1944. The volleyball team has won 7 league titles, 15 sectional titles, 4 district titles, and went to the regional as recently as 2007.  Most recently, the golf team won its ninth straight league title and qualified for the state championships in 2004, 2005, & 2006.  Individual players have also qualified for the state the last several years.  In addition, the tennis team has captured three of the last four SOC titles (2005, 2007, & 2008).  [CHAMPIONSHIPS] [CLAY HALL OF FAME] [ATHLETIC FACILITIES][MESSAGE FROM THE ATHLETIC DIRECTOR]

A new pre-K-12 facility was completed in 2011.

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44 Clay High Street
Portsmouth, OH 45662
740.354.6645
740.354.5746 (fax)
Mr. Todd Warnock, Superintendent
Ms. Brandi Blackburn, Treasurer
 

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