Lincoln-West High School (L-W) is a high school in Cleveland, Ohio's Cleveland Metropolitan School District. The school's name reflects the merger between Cleveland's Lincoln High School and West High School. The current school building was built in 1970.
Lincoln-West has a large multicultural and multilingual population including over 41 nationalities and 25 languages. First generation Americans and immigrants represented at the academy include: Puerto Rican, Russian, Ukrainian, Mexican, Dominican, Chinese, Albanian, Nepali, Arab, Urdu, Vietnamese, Laotian/Thai, African, Polish and Croatian.
Originally, the school district was divided into the East and West Senate Conferences with L-W sports teams playing in the West. In the late 1970s, the CMSD reorganized the conferences into the North and South Senate Conferences with L-W in the North Senate.
The Lincoln-West mascot and nickname is the Wolverines and the school colors are red, white and blue.
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State championships
Lincoln High School
Baseball: 1946
West High School
Wrestling: 1947, 1950, 1951
Boys cross country: 1950
Notable alumni
Dartanyon Crockett, bronze-medal winner in men's judo at the London 2012 Paralympics and Rio 2016 United States paralympian, class of 2009
Dave Ford, professional baseball player in Major League Baseball, class of 1975
Lincoln High School
Walt Yowarsky, professional football player, coach, and scout in the National Football League, class of 1946
Carl Gerstacker, Army Captain and Chairman of the Board, Dow Chemical Company 1960-1976, class of 1934
West High School
Linda A. Eastman, chief librarian of the Cleveland Public Library, class of 1885
Alwin C. Ernst, co-founder of the accounting firm of Ernst & Ernst, class of 1899
Albert Bushnell Hart, American historian, class of 1870
Isaac C. Kidd, Rear Admiral in the United States Navy, class of 1902
James Ford Rhodes, American historian, class of 1865
James A. Frost, University President