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, United States. The league and its members compete as part of the

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(OHSAA). The conference is named for the

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that flows through the valley where the majority of the founding schools are located.

Current members

Future members

Former members

History

The CVC formed in 1964 with Chagrin Falls, Kenston, Orange, Solon, Twinsburg, and West Geauga as its charter members. Aurora and Chardon joined in 1968 to bring membership up to eight. The league remained stable until 1980 when Chardon left for the East Suburban Conference and was replaced with Wickliffe. When Aurora left for the

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in 1983, Chardon returned as their replacement. Around 1994, Chagrin Falls and Wickliffe suggested creating a "small school" division within the CVC to give them better competition. Aurora was invited back, along with Hawken, and four schools from the ESC: Berkshire, Cardinal, Kirtland, and Perry. The two-division setup fell through when Kenston, Orange, Solon, Twinsburg, and West Geauga left to form the Western Reserve Conference in 1996 with members of the Metro League. Chardon would ultimately end up in the Premier Athletic Conference. This left the CVC with the eight schools meant to be its smaller division. In 1998 the CVC decided to follow through with the two-division, 12-school setup. They invited Orange and West Geauga back to be part of the ''Chagrin Division'' with Aurora, Chagrin Falls, Perry, and Wickliffe. The ''Valley Division'' included Berkshire, Cardinal, Hawken, Kirtland, and two more schools from the ESC: Grand Valley and Newbury. When the MAC-8 dissolved in 2005, Beachwood joined the Valley Division while Cuyahoga Heights, Independence, and Richmond Heights joined with Fairport Harding and Hawken to create the ''Metro Division'' . Kenston also returned at this time, but would leave for a new version of the WRC in 2015. Aurora would also depart at the same time for the Suburban League. Grand Valley left in 2009. The CVC would continue to expand: Harvey would join in 2009 and Geneva came on board in 2015. The addition of six schools in 2019 (Brooklyn, Edgewood, Grand Valley, Lakeside, Lutheran West, and Trinity ) brought the league to 22 members. Newbury would leave for the NAC in 2014 before having its district transferred to West Geauga in 2020. Newbury, Cardinal, and Berkshire considered a district merger before Berkshire ultimately absorbed the Ledgemont School District in 2015. Crestwood would join in 2020 at the same time that Fairport Harding left for the NAC. Conneaut, Fairview, Jefferson Area, and Madison would come aboard in 2023. This led to the creation of the ''Lake Division''. Grand Valley left the CVC a second time in 2024 for the NAC. Cardinal announced in the summer of 2024 that they would leave for the Northeastern Athletic Conference as well for the 2025-2026 school year. As a result, in October 2024 it was announced that Rootstown would leave the Portage Trail Conference and join the Valley Division for the 2025-2026 school year as Cardinal leaves. In February 2025, the CVC announced that Chardon and Fairport Harbor would return to the league along with Eastlake North and Willoughby South in the fall of 2026. This expansion will bring the league to 29 teams. In May 2025, the North Coast Conference announced that it had invited Lutheran West to join for the 2027-2028 school year.

All-time membership timeline

DateFormat = yyyy ImageSize = width:1000 height:auto barincrement:25 Period = from:1964 till:2034 TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal PlotArea = right:30 left:0 bottom:50 top:5 Colors = id:barcolor id:line value:black id:bg value:white PlotData= width:20 textcolor:black shift:(5,-5) anchor:from fontsize:m bar:1 color:orange from:1964 till:end textcolor:black text:Chagrin Falls (1964-) bar:2 color:blue from:1964 till:1996 textcolor:white text:Kenston (1964-1996) bar:2 color:blue from:2005 till:2015 textcolor:white text:Kenston (2005-2015) bar:3 color:orange from:1964 till:1996 textcolor:black text:Orange (1964-1996) bar:3 color:orange from:1998 till:end textcolor:black text:Orange (1998-) bar:4 color:darkblue from:1964 till:1996 textcolor:yellow text:Solon (1964-1996) bar:5 color:blue from:1964 till:1996 textcolor:white text:Twinsburg (1964-1996) bar:6 color:darkblue from:1964 till:1996 textcolor:white text:West Geauga (1964-1996) bar:6 color:darkblue from:1998 till:end textcolor:white text:West Geauga (1998-) bar:7 color:green from:1968 till:1983 textcolor:white text:Aurora (1968-1980) bar:7 color:green from:1996 till:2015 textcolor:white text:Aurora (1996-2015) bar:8 color:red from:1968 till:1980 textcolor:black text:Chardon (1968-1980) bar:8 color:red from:1983 till:1996 textcolor:black text:Chardon (1983-1996) bar:8 color:red from:2026 till:end textcolor:black text: (2026-) bar:9 color:darkblue from:1980 till:end textcolor:yellow text:Wickliffe (1980-) bar:10 color:purple from:1996 till:end textcolor:yellow text:Berkshire (1996-) bar:11 color:red from:1996 till:2025 textcolor:white text:Cardinal (1996-2025) bar:12 color:red from:1996 till:end textcolor:white text:Hawken (1996-) bar:13 color:darkblue from:1996 till:end textcolor:yellow text:Kirtland (1996-) bar:14 color:blue from:1998 till:2009 textcolor:white text:Grand Valley (1998-2009) bar:14 color:blue from:2019 till:2024 textcolor:white text:(2019-24) bar:15 color:orange from:1998 till:2014 textcolor:black text:Newbury (1998-2014) bar:16 color:red from:1996 till:end textcolor:white text:Perry (1996-) bar:17 color:yellow from:2005 till:end textcolor:black text:Beachwood (2005-) bar:18 color:red from:2005 till:end textcolor:white text:Cuyahoga Heights (2005-) bar:19 color:claret from:2005 till:2020 textcolor:white text:Fairport Harding (2005-2020) bar:19 color:claret from:2026 till:end textcolor:white text: (2026-) bar:20 color:blue from:2005 till:end textcolor:yellow text:Independence (2005-) bar:21 color:blue from:2005 till:end textcolor:white text:Richmond Heights (2005-) bar:22 color:red from:2009 till:end textcolor:black text:Harvey (2009-) bar:23 color:red from:2015 till:end textcolor:white text:Geneva (2015-) bar:24 color:blue from:2019 till:end textcolor:yellow text:Brooklyn (2019-) bar:25 color:red from:2019 till:end textcolor:white text:Edgewood (2019-) bar:26 color:green from:2019 till:end textcolor:yellow text:Lakeside (2019-) bar:27 color:red from:2019 till:2027 textcolor:black text:Lutheran West (2019-2027) bar:28 color:blue from:2019 till:end textcolor:white text:Trinity (2019-) bar:29 color:red from:2020 till:end textcolor:white text:Crestwood (2020-) bar:30 color:darkblue from:2023 till:end textcolor:yellow text:Conneaut (2023-) bar:31 color:red from:2023 till:end textcolor:white text:Fairview (2023-) bar:32 color:black from:2023 till:end textcolor:red text:Jefferson (2023-) bar:33 color:blue from:2023 till:end textcolor:white text:Madison (2023-) bar:34 color:darkblue from:2025 till:end textcolor:white text:Rootstown (2025-) bar:35 color:orange from:2026 till:end textcolor:black text:North (2026-) bar:36 color:skyblue from:2026 till:end textcolor:black text:South (2026-) ScaleMajor = gridcolor:line unit:year increment:10 start:1964 TextData = fontsize:L textcolor:black pos:(370,30) # tabs:(0-center) text:"CVC Membership History"

References

External links

* Ohio high school sports conferences {{Northeast Ohio High School Athletic Conferences