Lake Oswego High School

Lake Oswego High School
Address
2501 Southwest Country Club Road
Lake Oswego, (Clackamas County), Oregon 97034
United States
Coordinates 45°25′36.90″N 122°42′08.59″W / 45.4269167°N 122.7023861°W / 45.4269167; -122.7023861Coordinates: 45°25′36.90″N 122°42′08.59″W / 45.4269167°N 122.7023861°W / 45.4269167; -122.7023861
Information
Type Public
Established 1950
School district Lake Oswego School District
Principal Rollin Dickinson[1]
Faculty 54 (on FTE basis)[2]
Grades 9-12
Number of students 1,260 (as of Oct. 1, 2009)[3]
Student to teacher ratio 23:4[2]
Campus Suburban
Color(s)

Navy and white

         [4]
Athletics conference OSAA , Class 6A
Mascot Pilot Joe Sea Farer
Team name Lakers
Rival Lakeridge Pacers
Newspaper Lake Views
Yearbook Laker Log
Television/radio Laker Broadcasting
Website loh.loswego.k12.or.us

Lake Oswego High School (LOHS) is a public high school in Lake Oswego, Oregon, United States. It is accredited through the Northwest Association of Schools and Colleges.

History

Lake Oswego High School first opened in September 1951 as a six-year school,[5] with an enrollment of 564.[6] In 1956, it became a four-year high school with the opening of Lake Oswego Junior High School, and in 1958, a three-year high school (with 589 students) as the LOJHS expanded to include the 9th grade (for a total of 656 students),[7] in advance of the "Baby Boomer" generation. In 1971, it grew from a three-year to a standard four-year high school. In its history, the school and others in its district, such as Lakeridge High School, have received many honors for scholarship, leadership, and athletics on the local, state, and national level.

From its location and name, Lake Oswego High School adopted a nautical theme, with a nickname of "Lakers".

In the fall of 2005, construction was finished on a completely new campus. Built over the original school, the new building featured classrooms equipped with built-in projectors and SMART boards. Other improvements included a state-of-the-art 500-seat theater and a building wing designated for art classes.

Several years later, mold and defects in the walls and roof of the school and gym, as a result of faulty construction, were detected. A string of lawsuits ensued between the school district and parties involved with the construction. The district eventually reached a $6.7 million settlement with its primary contractor, Robinson Construction Company, and several smaller settlements with sub-contractors. Repair work to fix the school's structural problems was completed in 2012.[8][9][10]

In 2012, Bruce Plato announced his retirement after 11 years as principal of Lake Oswego High School. The School Board elected Assistant Principal Cindy Schubert as his replacement, effective in the 2013-2014 school year.[11] The current principal is Rollin Dickinson, the former Assistant Principal at Lakeridge High School.

Scandals

In 2016 the Lake Oswego softball team filed suit against the Lake Oswego School District for violating Title IX and taking part in gender discrimination. The suit alleged that both Lake Oswego High School and the Lake Oswego School District had failed to provide proper facilities for the softball team. The girls' team played on a dirt field across the street at Lake Oswego Junior High School, while the boys played at a turf stadium at the high school. The baseball team was also provided access to a hitting barn, while the softball team used an old net in the second gym.[12]

Lake Oswego High School, like many schools, experienced isolated racist incidents during the 2016-2017 school year. In the fall of 2016 an unknown student put up a picture of Nazis putting Jewish people into Holocaust-era gas chambers. Shortly afterwards an alumnus made racist comments on the Lake Oswego High School's Class of 2017 Facebook page.[13] In March 2017 a racial slur was discovered scrawled in a campus bathroom.[14]

Academics

Lake Oswego High School has consistently been ranked as a top-tier high school in both Oregon and the United States.

In 1983, Lake Oswego High School was honored in the Blue Ribbon Schools Program, the highest honor a school can receive in the United States.[15]

In 2008, 94% of the school's seniors received a high school diplomas. Of 314 students, 294 graduated, 15 dropped out, four received a modified diploma, and one was still in high school in 2009.[16][17]

The school received a gold ranking in U.S. News & World Report's 2013 "America's Best High Schools". It was named as the second best high school in the state. A gold ranking connotes that the school was among the 500 best in the nation. According to the report, 58 percent of the students participated in AP courses in 2013.[18][19]

Sports

The football team won its first state football championship in 2011, defeating Sheldon High School 47-14 to complete an undefeated season, ranked 14th in the nation. In 2012, the team again made the state finals for a rematch with Sheldon, this time losing. In 2013 the team saw some decline when losing to its rival Lakeridge High School for the first time since 2002 at 20-14.

The basketball team, led by future NBA player Kevin Love, won the 2006 state basketball championship.

The Lake Oswego Cheer Squad took third place at state in 2016 and 2017. They were ranked 2nd in the nation in 2016, and 3rd in the nation in 2017.

The school's dance team, the Laker Dancers, competes locally and nationally and won five straight state championships from 2011 to 2015. In 2014, during one of their trips to UDA Nationals, the Laker Dancers placed 14th in the nation in Large Varsity Jazz.

The girls' lacrosse team has won six state championships in the past 12 years, including four of the last six, and has placed numerous players into D-1 programs.

State championships

  • Football: 2011
  • Boys' cross country: 1969
  • Boys' soccer: 1990, 2009, 2010
  • Girls' soccer: 1978
  • Boys' basketball: 2006
  • Girls' basketball: 1993
  • Boys' swimming: 1957, 1959, 1960, 1964, 1990, 1994
  • Girls' swimming: 1951, 1956, 1990
  • Boys' golf: 1968, 1969, 1972, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016
  • Girls' golf: 1971, 1972, 1973, 1978
  • Girls' tennis: 1959, 1991, 1992, 2016, 2017, 2018
  • Dance: 1981, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015
  • Girls' lacrosse: 2005, 2006, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018

Notable alumni

References

  1. ↑ "Lake Oswego High School: Administration". Lake Oswego High School. Retrieved October 12, 2016.
  2. 1 2 Lake Oswego High School, National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved November 3, 2007.
  3. ↑ , Lake Oswego School District. Retrieved May 31, 2010.
  4. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-10-10. Retrieved 2011-05-22.
  5. ↑ Oswego Review (4 October 1951). "Lakers Lane". Oswego Review, Oswego, Oregon.
  6. ↑ Oswego Review (27 September 1951). "564 Enroll for Opening Day, New High School". Oswego Review, Oswego, Oregon.
  7. ↑ "Schools Open". Oswego Review, Oswego, Oregon. 14 September 1958.
  8. ↑ Randall, Rebecca (September 28, 2011). "School roof woes remain". Lake Oswego Review. Retrieved April 6, 2013.
  9. ↑ "Lake Oswego School Board approves $6.7 million settlement from construction firm that built Lake Oswego High School". The Oregonian. 2011-10-27.
  10. ↑ "School board approves settlement involving Lake Oswego High School repairs". The Oregonian. 2012-05-02.
  11. ↑ "Lake Oswego High School principal announces plan to retire". The Oregonian. 2012-09-19.
  12. ↑ News, Hillary Lake, KATU. "Lake Oswego Softball sues district under Title IX". KATU. Retrieved 2017-03-07.
  13. ↑ "Racist, Anti-Semitic Statements Rock Lake Oswego High School". Willamette Week. Retrieved 2017-03-07.
  14. ↑ "Racial Slurs in LOHS Bathrooms – LOHS Lake Views". lohslakeviews.com. Retrieved 2017-03-07.
  15. ↑ Archived: Blue Ribbon Schools Program, Schools Recognized 1982-1983 Through 1999-2002 (PDF) Archived 2009-03-26 at the Wayback Machine.
  16. ↑ Casey, Jerry (2009-06-30). "State releases high school graduation rates". The Oregonian. Retrieved 2009-07-01.
  17. ↑ "Oregon dropout rates for 2008" (XLS). The Oregonian. 2009-06-30. Retrieved 2009-07-01.
  18. ↑ "Best High Schools 2013". U.S. News & World Report. 2013-04-13. Retrieved 2013-08-02.
  19. ↑ "Lake Oswego, West Linn, Corbett high schools named among nation's top 500 by U.S. News". The Oregonian. 2013-04-23. Retrieved 2013-08-02.
  20. ↑ Boss, Suzie (July 2, 2008). "Becoming Citizens: A Stint in Student Government Can Shape One's Future". Edutopia. Retrieved September 24, 2015.
  21. ↑ Daley, Jillian (October 8, 2015). "President of Afghanistan attended LOHS". KOIN.com.
  22. ↑ "U.S.A."
  23. ↑ Langlois, Shawn. "Tim Solso drives Cummins to gains", MarketWatch, December 8, 2010. Accessed May 19, 2017. "The graduate of Lake Oswego High School in Oregon had done his undergraduate work at DePauw University in Greencastle, Ind. — just 60 miles northwest of Cummins headquarters in Columbus, Ind. — where he met his wife and was a classmate of one J. Danforth Quayle."
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