Portsmouth High School (PHS) is a public high school in Portsmouth, Ohio, United States. It is the only high school in the Portsmouth City School District. Athletic teams are known as the Trojans, and they compete in the Ohio High School Athletic Association as a member of the Ohio Valley Conference.
Portsmouth High School was founded sometime in the 1830s and serves students in grades 7th through 12th. In 2000, Portsmouth voters passed a school bond issue, which helped construct new schools for the district. Portsmouth's new schools opened for the 2006âÂÂ2007 school year.
Portsmouth won the Grand Prize from School Planning & Management's 2007 Education Design Showcase, an award given annually to the K-12 school that displays "excellence in design and functional planning directed toward meeting the needs of the educational program."
Portsmouth built a $10 million athletic complex in 2009, that included a new football field, baseball field, softball field, and track.
Portsmouth High School currently offers:
Boys' basketball â 1925, 1926, 1927, 1929, 1931, 1934, 1939, 1941, 1961, 1978, 1980, 1988, 1990, 2011, 2012