| Toledo Start | |
| Native Name: | Roy C. Start High School |
| Streetaddress: | 2010 Tremainsville Road |
| City: | Toledo |
| State: | Ohio |
| County: | (Lucas County) |
| Zipcode: | 43613 |
| Country: | USA |
| Coordinates: | 41.7014°N -83.5933°W |
| District: | Toledo City School District |
| Superintendent: | Romules Durant |
| Principal: | Ed Perozek |
| Dean: | Tyson Harder |
| Type: | Public, Coeducational high school |
| Grades: | 9-12 |
| Conference: | Toledo City League |
| Fightsong: | Victory for Start |
| Accreditation: | North Central Association of Colleges and Schools[1] |
| Mascot: | Spartans |
| Team Name: | Toledo Start[2] |
| Enrollment: | 1,344[3] |
| Enrollment As Of: | 2021-22 |
| Feeders: | Elmhurst, DeVeaux, Grove Patterson, Larchmont, Longfellow, McKinley, Old Orchard and Whittier |
| Homepage: | http://www.tps.org/ |
Roy C. Start High School is the largest comprehensive public high school in Toledo, Ohio, United States. The school opened in 1962 and is part of the Toledo Public Schools. It was named after Roy C. Start, two-time mayor of Toledo and founder of the West Toledo YMCA. The school building was demolished and replaced with a new building. Students have been attending the new Start since January 2008. The only part of the original Roy C. Start High School building in use is the auditorium (which is now in the West Toledo YMCA building) and is attached to the new building.
Start's football team appeared in the first OHSAA playoffs Division I in school history after finishing the regular season 9-1 during the 2015 season. In 2016, after finishing 5-5 (0-5 out of conference) Start won back to back city championships, a first in school history.
From its opening until 1991, Start had a rivalry with the DeVilbiss Tigers, which were located in the same neighborhood and a very short distance south of Start. When DeVilbiss closed, much of its school district was absorbed by Start after a community effort urging TPS to merge Start into DeVilbiss had failed.[4]
Start's main and long-standing rivals is Washington Local Schools’ Whitmer Panthers, located just over two miles away on Clegg Drive. The "Battle of Tremainsville" was a non-conference matchup from Start's inception in the early 1960s until Whitmer joined the City League in 2003. Beginning with the 2011-12 school year, it reverted to a non-league matchup when Whitmer joined the new Three Rivers Athletic Conference.
Roy C. Start has a large number of clubs. Some of those clubs are:
1978, 2015, 2016, 2020
1976, 1977, & 2015
2016
(years marked with an asterisk (*) denote a shared title)