Hood River Valley High School
Hood River Valley High School | |
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Address | |
1220 Indian Creek Road Hood River, Oregon 97031 United States | |
Coordinates | 45°41′05″N 121°32′45″W / 45.68471°N 121.545879°WCoordinates: 45°41′05″N 121°32′45″W / 45.68471°N 121.545879°W |
Information | |
Type | Public |
School district | Hood River County School District |
Principal | Rich Polkinghorn[1] |
Grades | 9-12 |
Number of students | 1225[2] |
Color(s) | Navy blue, canary yellow, and white[1] |
Athletics conference | OSAA Columbia Gorge Conference, 5A-3[1] |
Mascot | Eagle[1] |
Newspaper | The Talon |
Website | School's website |
Hood River Valley High School (HRVHS) is a public high school in Hood River, Oregon, United States. It was the result of the consolidation of two smaller high schools at the time of its founding.
Academics
The school has a dropout rate of 2.8% and an attendance rate of 94%. Of the 38% of students who took the SAT, the average verbal score was 504 and the average math score was 507.[2] In the 2006 Oregon Statewide Assessments, the score for reading was 57%, the state average being 55%. For science, the score was 50%, below the state average of 62%. In writing the score was 55%, equal to the state average of 55%. The score for math was 38%, and the state average was 45%.[4]
In 2008, 76% of the school's seniors received a high school diploma. Of 314 students, 238 graduated, 53 dropped out, five received a modified diploma, and 18 were still in high school in 2009.[5][6]
Athletics
HRVHS is a 5A school in the Columbia River Conference of the OSAA.[1]
Notable alumni
- Andrew Baldwin, 2001,[7] baseball player, Tacoma Rainiers
- Jeff Lahti,1974, baseball player, St Louis Cardinals pitcher in the World Series; orchardist in Hood River, Oregon[8]
- Brooke Struck, 1997, Survivor: Guatemala contestant and lawyer
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 http://www.osaa.org/schools.aspx/HoodRiverValley/
- 1 2 "HRVHS Profile" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2006-06-21.
- ↑ "HRVHS Handbook" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-08-01.
- ↑ "HRVHS Profile".
- ↑ "State releases high school graduation rates". The Oregonian. 2009-06-30. Retrieved 2009-07-01.
- ↑ "Oregon dropout rates for 2008". The Oregonian. 2009-06-30. Archived from the original on 2011-09-16. Retrieved 2009-07-01.
- ↑ Westeen, Karen. "The book on Baldwin: this season has been a success story". Tacoma Weekly. Retrieved 2009-09-28.
- ↑ "Jeff Lahti (1956-)". oregonencyclopedia.org. Oregon Historical Society. Retrieved 4 November 2016.