Ocosta School District No. 172 is a rural school district in Grays Harbor County, Washington and neighboring Pacific County. The school district serves Westport, Cohassett Beach, Grayland, Markham and Tokeland. [1]
During the 2014–15 school year, the school district enrolled 626 total students. [2]
The school district's two schools are located on a shared campus in Cohassett Beach, south of Westport.
The combined junior senior high school was opened in the 1980s after separating from the elementary school.
The elementary school opened in 1967 and was expanded in the 1980s and 2016. The 2016 expansion included the construction of a vertical tsunami refuge atop a gymnasium, the first such facility built in the United States. [3]
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Aberdeen is a city in Grays Harbor County, Washington, United States. The population was 17,013 at the 2020 census. The city is the most populous in Grays Harbor County and the region's economic center, bordering the cities of Hoquiam and Cosmopolis. Aberdeen is occasionally referred to as the "Gateway to the Olympic Peninsula".
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Grays Harbor is an estuarine bay located 45 miles (72 km) north of the mouth of the Columbia River, on the southwest Pacific coast of Washington state, in the United States. It is a ria, which formed at the end of the last ice age, when sea levels flooded the Chehalis River. The bay is 17 miles (27 km) long and 12 miles (19 km) wide. The Chehalis River flows into its eastern end, where the city of Aberdeen stands at that river's mouth, on its north bank, with the somewhat smaller city of Hoquiam immediately to its northwest, along the bayshore. Besides the Chehalis, many lesser rivers and streams flow into Grays Harbor, such as the Hoquiam River and Humptulips River. A pair of low peninsulas separate it from the Pacific Ocean, except for an opening about two miles (3 km) in width. The northern peninsula, which is largely covered by the community of Ocean Shores, ends in Point Brown. Facing that across the bay-mouth is Point Chehalis, at the end of the southern peninsula upon which stands the town of Westport.
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The Quinault Indian Nation, formerly known as the Quinault Tribe of the Quinault Reservation, is a federally recognized tribe of Quinault, Queets, Quileute, Hoh, Chehalis, Chinook, and Cowlitz peoples. They are a Southwestern Coast Salish people of indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast. Their tribe is located in Washington state on the Pacific coast of the Olympic Peninsula. These peoples are also represented in other tribes in Washington and Oregon.
Ocosta Elementary School is a public elementary school in Westport, Washington, operated by the Ocosta School District.
Ocosta is an unincorporated community in Grays Harbor County, in the U.S. state of Washington.
Ocosta Junior Senior High School, commonly known as Ocosta or Ocosta High School, is a public junior and senior high school located in Westport, Washington, and is part of the Ocosta School District. The high school mascot is the Wildcat. The school teaches grades 7–12.