Fine and Performing Arts
Wheeling Park is also home to bands, choral ensembles, and orchestral groups. Additionally, Wheeling Park is widely considered to have the best high school music program in West Virginia and the Upper Ohio Valley. Furthermore, the school's speech and debate team has won 34 consecutive state championships, and its Concert Band has achieved 27 consecutive "superior" ratings at Region 1 Band Festival.
Wheeling Park also is the home to a forensics team, which in 2013 won their 34th consecutive state championship.
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