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The Fox Valley Association is an athletic conference comprising ten high schools located within the Fox Valley region of northeastern Wisconsin . The management of the conference is vested in the principals of the member schools, who determine the rules governing the eligibility of athletes and the schedules. Rules and regulations may not be less restrictive than those of the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association .

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8-680: The conference was formed in 1970 when the Appleton Area teams split from the Fox River Valley Conference teams and joined up with the suburban Fox Valley teams. Oshkosh North and Appleton North joined the conference when the schools were built in 1972 and 1995, respectively. In 2010, The Wisconsin Valley Conference needed assistance in football scheduling. Therefore, the WIAA merged both conferences to form

16-574: A community, both within the classroom and in the city as a whole, including leadership classes, as well as alternative social studies, and English class. Collaboration, Creativity, Critical Thinking, Communication, and Commitment are the major traits that the Communities program seeks to create in its students. eAcademy is a fully online schooling option available to all K-12 students in the Oshkosh Area School District. It

24-531: A second high school for the city, when the Oshkosh West High School , formerly known as Oshkosh High School, facilities became too small to support the growing number for students. The school first opened as an open-concept school, with modular walls between classrooms, and multiple classes taking place in one room at the same time. After the 70s, the school began to shift toward a traditional layout, adding in permanent walls and separating many of

32-542: Is a public secondary/high school located in Oshkosh, Wisconsin . Part of the Oshkosh Area School District , the school serves students in grades 9 through 12. As of 2021, there are 1,193 students enrolled at the school. It is referred to by students as "North". The facility holds an in-house TV studio, swimming pool, field house with Weight Room, and an auditorium. The school was built in 1972 as

40-638: The Valley Football Association . Due to the conference subsequently having 16 teams and thus the inability to have all teams play one another in a two-month period, the conference was forced to split into two divisions: North & South. In 2014, Hortonville High School replaced original member Menasha High School, who departed the FVA for the Bay Conference . Menasha cited the school's declining enrollment and inability to compete with

48-697: The Oshkosh North football team was runner-up for Division 2 champions. In 2018, the Oshkosh North basketball team were the Division 1 State Champion for the state of Wisconsin. The school has 35 student clubs and organizations as of the 2021–2022 school year. Oshkosh North High School offers a number of alternative education programs to their students. Communities is an alternative education program offered via application to all students at North. The program replaces some classes with specialized ones made to provide an education that emphasizes working within

56-485: The large classrooms. Oshkosh North offers 15 unique sports. Sports offered include baseball, basketball, cross country, dance team, football, golf, gymnastics, hockey, soccer, softball, swimming and diving, tennis, track, volleyball, and wrestling, all of which participate in the Fox Valley Association . In 2000, the football team was the Division 1 state champion for the state of Wisconsin . In 2013,

64-599: The larger FVA schools as the reason for the move. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic , some members of the FVA joined some members of the Fox River Classic Conference and Wisconsin Valley Conference to form the 20-team football-only Fox Valley Classic Conference, which will play in spring 2021. The conference supports the following sports: Girls are allowed to participate in wrestling. Oshkosh North High School Oshkosh North High School

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