2022-2023 Focus on Oak Grove City Guide Page 19 Oak Grove High School, 9-12 Oak Grove High School had 561 students and a staff/faculty of 59 for the 2021-2022 school year. Oak Grove High School students learn college and career readiness through relevant, intriguing and rigorous activities and challenges in every classroom. In 2009, OGHS earned designation as an A+ school, which entitles students who complete certain requirements to community college/vocationaltechnical school tuition money after high school graduation. OGHS has established a Hall of Fame to recognize students with outstanding academic achievements, such as National Merit Scholar, Bright flight recipient, advanced score on at least four EOC’s and a 4.0 GPA, or score of 5 on at least two advanced placement exams and a 4.0 GPA. Students may enroll in weighted classes that are more challenging than a normal college preparatory curriculum and provide increased rigor for advanced students who wish to challenge themselves either through advanced placement or dual credit classes which allow students to earn college credit in high school. Students may take classes at Fort Osage Career and Technology Center during their junior and senior years. Those courses of study include welding, auto tech, CSI, culinary, health science, fire science/EMT, entrepreneurial studies, engineering, cyber security, computer engineering, sports medicine and physical therapy, HVAC, nail tech and construction trades. Academic acknowledgment for graduating seniors is based on the Latin system, which recognizes individuals with the following distinctions: cum laude, magna cum laude and suma cum laude. Students can earn a college prep certificate. The Sound of Panther Pride marching band participates in local competitions including Carrollton where they consistently finish on top. The 2022 show is On the Celtic Tide, and Irish/Scottish seafaring show. The choir department represents the school at various events in the school and community and makes an annual trip to Branson in the spring. Theatre productions for the 2022-2023 school year are the musical, Little Shop of Horrors; Antigone, one act; and Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, spring play. The speech and debate program hosts a tournament each year and participates in reader’s theatre. The high school sports program includes football, volleyball, girls softball, boys and girls cross country, boys and girls wrestling, boys and girls basketball, boys and girls track, boys and girls golf, and boys and girls soccer. SchoolsOak Grove R-6 Central Office 601 SE 12th Street Phone: (816) 690-4156 Fax: (816) 690-3031 Superintendent Mindy Hampton mhampton@ogr6.org Assistant Superintendent: Tom Huffington thuffington@ogr6.org Director of Special Services: Nicole Henderson nhenderson@ogr6.org Technology Director: Ryan Word rword@ogr6.org District Activities Office 605 SE 12th Street Activities Director: Darin Sehlke dsehlke@ogr6.org High School Grades: 9-12 605 SE 12th Street Phone: (816) 690-4152 School Hours: 7:30 a.m. - 2:35 p.m. Principal: Adam Salmon asalmon@ogr6.org Assistant Principal: Jacob Newman jnewman@ogr6.org Middle School Grades 6-8 401 E 12th Street Phone: (816) 690-4154 School Hours: 7:40 a.m. - 2:45 p.m. Principal: Tracy Kemp tkemp@ogr6.org Assistant Principal: Ty Hames thames@ogr6.org Maple Elementary Grades: 3-5 501 E 12th Street Phone: (816) 690-4153 School Hours: 8:40 a.m. - 3:45 p.m. Principal: Misti Raney mraney@ogr6.org Assistant principal: Brandie Harvey bharvey@ogr6.org Primary School Grades: K-2 501 SE 17th Street Phone: (816) 690-8770 School Hours: 8:35 a.m. - 3:40 p.m. Principal: Laura Oyler loyler@ogr6.org Assistant principal: Brandie Harvey bharvey@ogr6.org Early Childhood Center 501 SE 16th Street Phone: (816) 690-3762 School Sessions: 8:25 a.m. - 11:25 a.m. 12:25 p.m. - 3:25 p.m. Principal: Laura Oyler loyler@ogr6.org Adam Salmon, High School principal
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