Kentwood High School (Washington)

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Kentwood High School
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Kentwood High School (Washington)
25800 164th Ave SE,

Covington
,
Washington 98042

United States
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TypePublic secondary
MottoSuccessfully Preparing All Students For Their Futures
Established1981
School district Kent School District
PrincipalSamantha Ketover
Teaching staff77.91 (FTE) [1]
Grades9–12
Enrollment1,881 (2019-20) [1]
Student to teacher ratio24.14 [1]
CampusSuburban
Color(s)Silver, black, white and Kelly green
     [2]
MascotConqueror
AffiliationWIAA 4A Division
Website www.kent.k12.wa.us/KSD/KW

Kentwood High School is a high school in Covington, Washington. Kentwood is one of four high schools in the Kent School District. It serves students in grades nine through twelve who mainly live in the east central region of the district. Its main feeder schools are Mattson and Meridian Middle Schools.

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Kentwood is one of Washington's largest high schools; its enrollment of more than 2,000 students even exceeds the enrollment of most other 4A high schools in the state. Kentwood High School's mascot is the Conquerors, or the "Conks".

Academics

Kentwood High School, offers Advanced Placement classes in World History, US History, European History, Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, Art, Literature, Statistics, Calculus (AB and BC), Music Theory, Biology, Chemistry, Physics B, Language and Composition, Psychology, and Government for Megaminds. The availability of these classes is contingent upon enough registrations for them. AP Music Theory and AP Statistics in particular deal with this problem.

At Kentwood, freshmen and sophomores are placed into English, Social Studies classes and depending upon past grades and test scores.

Foreign Language classes available for students to take are French (4 years), Spanish (4 years), American Sign Language (4 years), Japanese (4 years), and Mandarin Chinese (4 years). Upper level (third or fourth year) French and Spanish classes offer college credit to students who participate in the University of Washington's College in the high school program.

In addition, Kentwood High School was also one of 41 schools in the country named a Grammy Signature in 2004 for their Music Program, which included a check for $1000 USD as a donation to the program. [3]

Sports

Kentwood's sports teams compete in the Cascade Division of the North Puget Sound League since the 2016-17 school year. [4] [5]

Boys

Girls

Kentwood students can also participate in district-wide Kent Crusaders Rugby and Kentwood Water Polo.

Kentwood Football won the Washington State 4A Championship in both 2001 & 2002. [6]

In addition, Kentwood also has an outstanding swim team that continues to make excellent progress each year, with a swimmer breaking a state record during the 2018-2019 season.

Notable alumni

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  2. ↑ "Kentwood High School". Washington Interscholastic Athletic Association. Retrieved 2024-04-27.
  3. ↑ Tina Potterf (May 14, 2004). "Grammy grants will make music at local schools". Seattle Times.
  4. ↑ "NPSL 4A Home Page". NPSLAthletics.org.
  5. ↑ "North Puget Sound League reforms after 26-year hiatus - Kent Reporter". Archived from the original on 2016-09-19. Retrieved 2016-08-12.
  6. ↑ "Kentwood Conquerors Varsity Boys Football". maxpreps.com.
  7. ↑ "Ready to Rumble: Redmond's Hamilton wants to grab CageSport heavyweight title - Redmond Reporter". redmond-reporter.com. 28 November 2012.
  8. ↑ "Demetrius Bronson". Seattle Seahawks. Archived from the original on 2014-10-27.
  9. ↑ "Kentwood High grad Voth makes MLB debut". 16 July 2018.
  10. ↑ "Conquerors win division crown | Boys basketball". 7 February 2012.

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