Start High School (Toledo, Ohio)

Roy C. Start High School is the largest comprehensive public high school in Toledo, Ohio, United States. The school opened in 1962 and is part of the Toledo Public Schools. It was named after Roy C. Start, two-time mayor of Toledo and founder of the West Toledo YMCA. The school building was demolished and replaced with a new building. Students have been attending the new Start since January 2008. The only part of the original Roy C. Start High School building in use is the auditorium (which is now in the West Toledo YMCA building) and is attached to the new building.

Toledo Start Roy C. Start High School
Front entrance of the school
Address
2010 Tremainsville Road Toledo , (Lucas County) , Ohio 43613 United States
Coordinates	41°42′5″N 83°35′36″W
Information
Type	Public, Coeducational high school
School district	Toledo City School District
Superintendent	Romules Durant
Dean	Tyson Harder
Principal	Ed Perozek
Grades	9-12
Enrollment	1,344[1] (2021-22)
Color(s)	Green & Gold[2]
Fight song	Victory for Start
Athletics conference	Toledo City League[2]
Mascot	Spartans
Team name	Toledo Start[2]
Accreditation	North Central Association of Colleges and Schools[3]
Feeder schools	Elmhurst, DeVeaux, Grove Patterson, Larchmont, Longfellow, McKinley, Old Orchard and Whittier
Website	http://www.tps.org/

Start Football

Start's football team appeared in the first OHSAA playoffs Division I in school history after finishing the regular season 9-1 during the 2015 season. In 2016, after finishing 5-5 (0-5 out of conference ) Start won back to back city championships, a first in school history.

Rivalries

From its opening until 1991, Start had a rivalry with the DeVilbiss Tigers, which were located in the same neighborhood and a very short distance south of Start. When DeVilbiss closed, much of its school district was absorbed by Start after a community effort urging TPS to merge Start into DeVilbiss had failed.^[4]

Start's main and long-standing rivals is Washington Local Schools’ Whitmer Panthers, located just over two miles away on Clegg Drive. The "Battle of Tremainsville" was a non-conference matchup from Start's inception in the early 1960s until Whitmer joined the City League in 2003. Beginning with the 2011-12 school year, it reverted to a non-league matchup when Whitmer joined the new Three Rivers Athletic Conference.

Clubs and organizations

Roy C. Start has a large number of clubs. Some of those clubs are:

• Russian Club - many students have competed and received medals by competing in the National Russian Essay Competition and the Ohio Spoken Olympiada.
• Red Cross Club
• Youth 2 Youth
• Z Club
• German Club
• SBG
• DECA
• Latin Club - functions as a local chapter of both the Ohio Junior Classical League (OJCL)^[5] and National Junior Classical League (NJCL).^[6]
• Mu Alpha Theta
• NHS
• Newspaper
• Art Club
• GSA
• Science Olympiad

Notable alumni

• Scott Shriner (1983): bass guitarist, Weezer
• Devin Vargas (2000): boxer, 2004 Olympics, 2000 & 2001 National Golden Gloves Heavyweight Champion

Ohio High School Athletic Association State Championships

Further information: Ohio High School Athletic Association

• Baseball - 1994 (Easton National Champions), 2000^[7]
• Girls Track and Field – 1980^[8]

Toledo City League Titles

• Bowling: 2012
• Football: 1978, 2015, 2016, 2020
• Volleyball: 1976, 1977, & 2015
• Boys Cross Country: 2012
• Girls Cross Country: 2011
• Boys Basketball: 1978-79, 1996–97, 2012-2013
• Girls Basketball: 2010-11
• Boys Track and Field: 1991
• Boys Track and Field: 2013, 2015–16
• Girls Track and Field: 1973, 1974, 1975
• Boys Soccer: 2016
• Girls Softball: 2018–present

(years marked with an asterisk (*) denote a shared title)