Wadsworth, Ohio Wadsworth, Ohio Location of Wadsworth, Ohio Location of Wadsworth, Ohio Location of Wadsworth in Medina County Location of Wadsworth in Medina County Wadsworth is a town/city in Medina County, Ohio, United States.
Founded in 1814, it was titled after General Elijah Wadsworth, a Revolutionary War hero. The populace was 21,567 at the 2010 census.
A postal service called Wadsworth has been in operation since 1823. The town/city has the name of Elijah Wadsworth, a territory agent. Wadsworth is positioned at 41 1 40 N 81 43 47 W (41.027867, -81.729768). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 10.62 square miles (27.51 km2), all land. It is positioned just a several miles south of the north-south continental divide.
Wadsworth City Schools is the single biggest employer in the city.
According to school precinct Treasurer Doug Beeman, revenues for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2007, exceeded expenditures as the school fitness continues to manage the resources provided by the community.
Wadsworth High School and Wadsworth Middle School are members of the Ohio High School Athletic Association.
The high school and middle school mascot is the grizzly bear.
Wadsworth City School precinct operates eight schools.
There are five elementary schools (kindergarten through undertaking 4), one intermediate school (grades 5 and 6), one middle school (grades 7 and 8) and one high school (grades 9 through 12).
As of 2012, Wadsworth City Schools had instead of a assembly universal in which a $115 million high school was built, along with three new elementary buildings.
Wadsworth City Schools continue to excel in a range of areas, including achieving a rating of "Excellent" from the Ohio Department of Education the last five years. This rating is based on the State Report Card, measuring student achievement tests, student attendance rate, and graduation rate. (Wadsworth Home Youth School) is the Parent-Teacher volunteer organization that supports the Wadsworth City School System by fostering a closer relation between home and school.
The Blue Tip Festival is a five-day celebration of the Wadsworth community.
It starts with a parade and the lighting of a 20-foot-high, blue-tip match, which lights downtown Wadsworth amid the festival's duration.
Additional affairs, such as the Wadsworth Running Club's "Matchstick 4 Mile" foot race and the "Blue Tip Idol" singing contest challenge region athletes and performers.
The Blue Tip Festival is titled after the historic strike-anywhere blue tip matches which were once produced in Wadsworth.
While match manufacturing left Wadsworth in the 1980s, the Blue Tip Festival uses the name and enormous match to affirm the community's past and jubilate the undivided American city.
Today, the Festival is run by a non-profit organization, staffed entirely by volunteers, referred to as the Blue Tip Festival Committee.
Revenues from the festival are donated to Wadsworth region non-profit groups. United States Enumeration Bureau.
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
"Ohio: Population and Housing Unit Counts" (PDF).
"Incorporated Places and Minor Civil Divisions Datasets: Subcounty Population Estimates: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2012".
"Wadsworth City Schools: Administrative Department" "Blue Tip Festival History".
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