Ida B. Wells-Barnett High School

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Wells High School
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Ida B. Wells-Barnett High School
1151 SW Vermont Street

Portland
,
(Multnomah County)
,
Oregon
97219

United States
Coordinates 45°28′37″N122°41′23″W / 45.476842°N 122.689798°W / 45.476842; -122.689798
Information
Former nameWoodrow Wilson High School
Type Public
Motto"Lifting as we climb"
Opened1956
School district Portland Public Schools
PrincipalAyesha Coning [1]
Grades9–12 [2]
Number of students1,540 (2021–2022 enrollment) [3]
Color(s)Forest green and white    [4]
Athletics conference OSAA Portland Interscholastic League 6A-1 [4]
Team nameWells Guardians
Rival Lincoln High School
Feeder schoolsJackson MS, Robert Gray MS
Website www.pps.net/ibw

Ida B. Wells-Barnett High School (IBWHS), formerly known as Wilson High School (and colloquially as Wells High School or just Wells), is a public high school in Portland, Oregon, United States. Its attendance boundary includes most of Southwest Portland, including the neighborhoods of Hillsdale, Multnomah, Hayhurst, Bridlemile, Maplewood, and South Waterfront.

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History

Wells High School (originally Woodrow Wilson High School) was built in 1956, after a ballot measure was passed in 1945 providing $5 million to improve Portland's school system. Population was growing explosively, so emphasis was put on economy and ease of building, instead of on architectural style as was the norm in the earlier school buildings. Wilson High School, which was designed by the firm Edmundson and Kochendoerfer, used the technique of lift-slab construction to speed up construction. Wilson was the first building in the Northwest to use that technique. [5]

In July 2020, Portland Public Schools pledged to rename the school in response to pressure from the community in light of the racial justice movement that followed the murder of George Floyd. [6] In January 2021, the name was changed to Ida B. Wells-Barnett High School, in honor of Ida B. Wells. [7] The mascot was also changed from the Trojans to the Guardians (represented by an owl).

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  2. ↑ "Oregon School Directory 2018–19" (PDF). Oregon Department of Education. p. 69. Archived from the original (PDF) on January 17, 2019. Retrieved February 1, 2019.
  3. ↑ "Portland Public Schools Annual Comprehensive Financial Report For the year ended June 30, 2021" (PDF). Portland Public Schools. p. 128. Retrieved July 27, 2022.
  4. 1 2 "New Principal for Wilson High School Named". Pamplin Media. 19 March 2019. Retrieved June 18, 2019.
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