Kennewick High School

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Kennewick High School
Location
Kennewick High School
560 West 6th Avenue

Kennewick, Washington

United States
Coordinates 46°12′14″N119°07′27″W / 46.204017°N 119.124116°W / 46.204017; -119.124116
Information
TypePublic
Established1904
PrincipalRon King
Teaching staff80.06 (FTE) [1]
Enrollment1,929 (2023-2024) [1]
Student to teacher ratio24.09 [1]
Color(s)   Orange & black
MascotLion
NewspaperLion's Roar
YearbookKeewaydin
Website

Kennewick High School is a public high school located in eastern Kennewick, Washington. It was founded in 1904 to serve the educational needs of the new city of Kennewick.[ citation needed ] It is one of only a few schools to have its music department honored with the title of "Grammy Signature School".[ citation needed ] The school is part of the Kennewick School District.

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The current building, constructed in 1954 and originally named Edwin S. Black Senior High School, is located at 500 S. Dayton St., and incorporates the remainder of the second high school building, which until 1966 served as Park Junior High School (now known as Park Middle School ) as an annex.[ clarification needed ] Both buildings were renovated in the mid-1990s, the annex first, then the main building.[ ambiguous ] The first building has long since been demolished, the location became until 1994 the location of Kennewick School District 17's administration.[ ambiguous ]

For 64 years until the founding of Kamiakin High School, Kennewick High School served as the sole high school in the city. Its colors are orange and black, and its mascot is a lion. Football and soccer games are played at Neil F. Lampson Stadium, which is located on the high school's grounds and is shared by both Kamiakin and Southridge High School.

Athletics

Recently, because of a change in enrollment accounting by the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association, Kennewick High, along with Southridge, was reclassified as a 3A school. As a result, the Columbia Basin Big 9 Conference (which consisted of 11 schools), was reconfigured into the Mid Columbia Conference. The new conference now consists of 8 schools; four 3A and four 4A. Kennewick High is in the 3A division, along with Southridge and Hanford High School. The 4A division consists of Kamiakin, Richland High School, Pasco High School, Walla Walla High School, and Chiawana High School. Kennewick High School has a traditional rivalry with Kamiakin High School, however in recent years both schools have become bigger rivals with Southridge High School than with each other.

State championships

Source: [2]

Notable alumni

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Kennewick High". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved December 15, 2024.
  2. ↑ Washington Interscholastic Athletics Association. Tournament History: Championship Information Archived October 29, 2012, at the Wayback Machine .
  3. ↑ https://www.facebook.com/michael.farris.374/info [ user-generated source ]
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