Oregon City High School

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Oregon City High School
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Oregon City High School
19761 South Beavercreek Road

Oregon City
,
Oregon
Coordinates 45°19′N122°34′W / 45.32°N 122.56°W / 45.32; -122.56
Information
Type Public
Established1885;139 years ago (1885)[ citation needed ]
2003, current campus
School district Oregon City School District
PrincipalGreg Timmons
Teaching staff75.75 (FTE) [1]
Grades9–12
Number of students1,984 (2018–19) [1]
Student to teacher ratio26.19 [1]
Color(s)Red & White
  
Athletics conference OSAA Three Rivers League [2] (6A)
MascotPioneer Pete
Team name Pioneers
Rival West Linn
NewspaperThe Elevator
Feeder schoolsGardiner Middle School, Tumwata Middle School
Website ochspioneers.org

Oregon City High School is a public high school in the northwest United States in Oregon City, Oregon, a suburb south of Portland.

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History

Oregon City High School was established 139 years ago in 1885 on the lower level of Oregon City on Jackson Street ( 45°21′25″N122°35′46″W / 45.357°N 122.596°W / 45.357; -122.596 ). Due to the growing number of students in the late 1980s, a freshmen campus was established in 1989 at Moss Junior High School on the southeast side of Oregon City and the main campus had just the upper three grades (10–12) for its last fourteen years.

In the early 2000s, construction began on the Moss Campus for the new high school, often referred to as Beavercreek. With its completion in 2003, OCHS became a four-year high school again for the 2003–04 school year. The original 1885 campus on Jackson was closed in 2003 due to the aftereffects of multiple disasters (fires and earthquakes) and the inability to effectively repair the damage. It is now the campus for the Clackamas Academy of Industrial Sciences (CAIS), and is still in use for basketball games and other activities.

Pioneer Memorial Stadium, adjacent to the 1885 campus, continues as the OCHS venue for football, soccer, lacrosse, and track and field.

Academics

Hallway at OCHS OCHS.UpperDWing.jpg
Hallway at OCHS

In 1985, Oregon City High School was honored in the Blue Ribbon Schools Program, the highest honor a school can receive in the United States. [3]

Oregon City offers 14 Advanced Placement courses and is connected to Clackamas Community College, where some Oregon City Courses are taught by professors.

In 2008, 85% of the school's seniors received a high school diploma. Of 474 students, 405 graduated, 46 dropped out, five received a modified diploma, and 18 were still in high school the following year. [4] [5]

In 2009, The Oregonian described the school as an "overachiever" at teaching reading and math, due to its achievement scores. [6]

Extracurricular activities

Choir

The Rendezvous Jazz Choir took first place at the Pleasant Hill Jazz festival.[ citation needed ] The OC Master Choir performed the song "Raua Needmine" (Curse Upon Iron) by the Estonian composer Veljo Tormis in the 2009 school year.

Athletics

The girls' basketball program won three consecutive USA Today girls' national championships from 1995 to 1997, as well as state championships in 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2009, and 2014. They have placed at the State Tournament 24 years in a row starting in 1987.

State championships

Controversies

Political cartoon controversy

During the 2004–2005 school year, a political cartoon drawn by a student concerning the border issue between Mexico and the United States, was taken out of context, making national news. [7] [8] [9] The cartoon was a depiction of two vigilante patrolmen discussing a "point system" for the capture of illegal immigrants. Local news coverage of the issue soon expanded to national coverage, bringing aboth criticism and support for the cartoonist and the newspaper.

Social media controversy

During the 2016–2017 school year, a Twitter post that showed a group of students holding a sign that included a racial slur was released, stirring controversy. In the following days, many of the students united to express their views and opinions of the incident by walking out of the classrooms and gathering in the school courtyard. [10]

Voices assembly controversy

During the 2021-2022 school year, a committee on the OCHS student council in cooperation with school administration designed a virtual assembly that shared student stories of mental health struggles wherein one student story disturbed many students and parents. The student described emotional and physical abuse he had perpetrated towards an ex-girlfriend who still attended the school. [11] This prompted a school-wide "walk-out," the resignation of then-principal Carey Wilhelm, and a lawsuit. [12] [13]

Notable alumni

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  2. ↑ "OSAA - Activities".
  3. ↑ "Archived: Blue Ribbon Schools Program, Schools Recognized 1982-1983 Through 1999-2002 (PDF)" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-03-26. Retrieved 2009-07-04.
  4. ↑ "State releases high school graduation rates". The Oregonian . 2009-06-30. Retrieved 2009-07-01.
  5. ↑ "Oregon dropout rates for 2008". The Oregonian . 2009-06-30. Retrieved 2009-07-01.
  6. ↑ Hammond, Betsy (2009-08-31). "Oregon middle schools make big academic gains". OregonLive.com. The Oregonian . Retrieved 2009-09-10.
  7. ↑ "Student cartoon draws ire, vow of unity", Suzanne Pardington, The Oregonian
  8. ↑ Scholastic Journalism In The News
  9. ↑ {{Cite web|url=http://www.hsd.k12.or.us/news/UnionAmerica/newsletters/2005_06.pdf%7Ctitle=Unión América Newsletter Issue No 15, June 2005}}
  10. ↑ "Oregon City High students walk out to protest racism". kgw.com.
  11. ↑ {{Cite web|url=https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/oregon-city-high-student-walkout-assembly-video-abuse/283-afa59fec-cacf-4f81-9029-e40d8d48a986}}
  12. ↑ {{Cite web|url=https://www.koin.com/news/education/oregon-city-principal-resigns-after-student-suffers-severe-emotional-distress/}}
  13. ↑ {{Cite web|url=https://www.kptv.com/2022/03/22/oregon-city-school-district-sued-by-student-after-assembly-featured-video-detailing-abuse/}}
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