Crescent Valley High School

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Crescent Valley High School
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Location
Crescent Valley High School
4444 Northwest Highland Drive

Corvallis
,
Oregon
97330

United States

44°36′58″N123°15′47″W / 44.616°N 123.263°W / 44.616; -123.263
Information
Motto"Commitment to Excellence." and
"Raider Nation, home of the Rowdy Raiders."
Established1971
School district
 Corvallis School District 509J
Principal
Aaron McKee [1]
Teaching staff
35.34 (FTE) [2]
Grades9–12
Enrollment942 (2023–2024) [2]
Student to teacher ratio
26.66 [2]
ColorsCardinal, gold and black
    [1]
Athletics conference
 OSAA 5A-3 Mid-Willamette Conference [1]
MascotRowdy the Raider
Team name Raiders [1]
RivalCorvallis High School
South Albany High School
NewspaperCrescent Crier (https://thecrescentcrier.com/)
YearbookRevolutionary
Website cvhs.csd509j.net/

Crescent Valley High School (CV or CVHS) is a four-year public secondary school in unincorporated Benton County, Oregon, [3] with a Corvallis post office address. Opened in 1971 in a rural location north of the city, it is one of the two traditional high schools of the Corvallis School District. Aaron McKee has been the principal of the school As of 2017. [4] Its attendance boundary includes Adair Village and pieces of Corvallis. [5]

Contents

There are two student-run media broadcasting groups, of which students may participate in: The Crescent Crier as the school newspaper [6] and CVTV (abbreviation of Crescent Valley TeleVision) as the schools broadcast news channel. [7]

Academics

In the 2024-2025 school year, the school had a total enrollment of 858 students. The racial makeup of the student body was 69% White, 12% Hispanic or Latino, 10% multiracial, 7% Asian, and 1% Black. Less than 1% of the student body identified as American Indian/Alaska Native or Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander, respectively. 15% of the student body were classified as experiencing poverty and 12% were disabled students. 89% of the school's seniors received their high school diploma on time; 96% of the cohort graduated with a diploma or GED within five years, and 75% of the graduating class pursued higher-level education [8] There is a special-education WINGS program in place at the high school and within the school district that the school is located in for disabled students to attempt to earn a diploma after graduation if they were not able to get one after five years. [9]

Crescent Valley offers Spanish and English classes as of the 2025-26 school year [10] and previously offered German and French before then, yet the students still in German and French classes may still finish the courses.

Academic awards

In 2010, a student at the school was honored as a Presidential Scholar, one of three from Oregon. [11] There have been two other Presidential Scholars from this school in the past ten years. [12]

The school received a silver ranking from U.S. News & World Report 's 2010 "America's Best High Schools" survey. [13] [14]

Athletics

Assistant principal Jon Strowbridge is also the current Athletic Director of CVHS. [4] Crescent Valley High School athletic teams compete in the OSAA 5A-3 Mid-Willamette Conference. [1]

State championships: [15]

(†=Tied with one or more schools)
(^=Oregon Westling Association State Tournament due to COVID-19 pandemic)

Notable alumni

Faculty

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Crescent Valley".
  2. 1 2 3 "Crescent Valley High School". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved December 22, 2024.
  3. ↑ Geography Division (April 13, 2021). 2020 Census - Census Block Map: Benton County, OR (PDF) (Map). Suitland, Maryland: U.S. Census Bureau. p. 7 (PDF p. 8/24). Retrieved June 24, 2026.
  4. 1 2 "About - Crescent Valley High School - Corvallis School Disrict". Crescent Valley High School. Retrieved December 16, 2025.
  5. ↑ Existing Attendance Areas (PDF) (Map). Corvallis School District . Retrieved June 23, 2026. - Adair Village indicated.
  6. ↑ "About". The Crescent Crier. May 19, 2024. Retrieved December 16, 2025.
  7. ↑ "CVTV - Crescent Valley High School - Corvallis School Disrict". Crescent Valley High School. Retrieved December 16, 2025.
  8. ↑ "At-A-Glance School and District Profiles and Accountability Details - Oregon Department of Education". www.ode.state.or.us. Retrieved March 12, 2025.
  9. ↑ "WINGS Transition Program". Corvallis School District. Retrieved December 16, 2025.
  10. ↑ "Classes and Course Catalog - Crescent Valley High School - Corvallis School Disrict". Crescent Valley High School. Retrieved December 16, 2025.
  11. ↑ Hammond, Betsy (May 3, 2010). "Presidential scholars: Oregon scores three". The Oregonian . Retrieved May 3, 2010.
  12. ↑ Crombie, Noelle (May 4, 2009). "Three Oregon high school students named 2009 Presidential Scholars". The Oregonian . Retrieved May 7, 2019.
  13. ↑ "Best High Schools 2010". U.S. News & World Report . December 9, 2009. Retrieved January 16, 2010.
  14. ↑ Graves, Bill (January 15, 2010). "Nine Oregon high schools ranked among best in nation". The Oregonian . Retrieved January 16, 2010.
  15. ↑ "Records and Archives".
  16. ↑ "Crescent Valley Wins 4th Consecutive 5A Wrestling Crown".
  17. ↑ GAZETTE-TIMES, EMILY GILLESPIE, Corvallis. "Botti: Success is 1 percent talent, 99 percent drive". Corvallis Gazette Times. Retrieved November 17, 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  18. ↑ "Meghna Chakrabarti NPR Profile". NPR.org.
  19. ↑ "Former Oregon Ducks golfer Daniel Miernicki will make PGA Tour debut at Torrey Pines". oregonlive. February 5, 2015. Retrieved November 17, 2020.
  20. ↑ Gazette-Times, ANTHONY RIMEL Corvallis. "Crescent Valley alum new CEO of Google's venture capitalism arm". Corvallis Gazette Times. Retrieved November 17, 2020.
  21. ↑ "Omar Speights - Football". Oregon State University Athletics.
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