Hillsboro High School (Oregon)
| Hillsboro High School | |
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3285 SE Rood Bridge Road Hillsboro, OR 97123 |
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| Coordinates | 45°29′42″N 122°57′32″W / 45.494917°N 122.958984°WCoordinates: 45°29′42″N 122°57′32″W / 45.494917°N 122.958984°W |
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| School type | Public, high school |
| Motto | Be Think Live Blue |
| School district | Hillsboro School District 1J |
| Principal | Lou Bailey |
| Grades | 9-12 |
| Enrollment | 1515 (2006-2007) |
| Language | English |
| Campus | Suburban |
| Color(s) | Blue, White, and Red. |
| Mascot | Spartans |
| Website | http://www.hsd.k12.or.us/hilhi/ |
Hillsboro High School (Hilhi) is a public high school in Hillsboro, Oregon, United States, and is the oldest high school in the Hillsboro School District. The current campus was built beginning in 1969. Prior to this, the senior high school was located downtown on Lincoln Street at 6th Avenue where J.B. Thomas Middle School stood until 2009. That campus was built in 1928. Currently 1,515 students attend the school in grades 9-12. The official school colors are Blue, White and Red and the mascot is the Spartan.
The athletics and activities of the school compete as a 5A school in the Pacific Conference under the Oregon School Activities Association. Alumni include professional soccer player Tiffeny Milbrett, hall of fame coach Ad Rutschman, and former professional baseball player Bob Beall among others. Hillsboro High's most recent team state championship came in 2009 for Football. As of 2016, the graduation rate was 79%.
In September 1908, tenth grade was added to the Hillsboro school district, with the classes held on the top floor of the school. Eleventh and twelfth grades were soon added, and in June 1911 the first students to complete four years of high school were graduated by Hillsboro. This class totaled five students, consisting of four girls and one boy. In September 1911, the school added manual training and domestic science courses to the curriculum. That same year, voters approved of a $50,000 bond measure to pay for constructing a high school building, with construction completed in 1913 at a cost of $40,000 for the three story building. In 1913, the school graduated eight students. A gymnasium was built beginning in 1915. The school grew in size, with the 1920 graduating class totally 36 students, the largest number up to that time.
In 1929, a new high school building was completed, with additional buildings and the wings added in later years. Located near downtown Hillsboro, at NE Sixth Avenue and Lincoln Street, the site became a junior high once the current campus was built beginning in 1969. In 1970, the new senior high school campus opened on 48 acres (190,000 m2) on the south side of Hillsboro, with enrollment of the high school district reaching 3,621 students that year. Students complained that the new layout that consisted of classrooms spread out over the campus instead of a single central building was a poor choice for Oregon’s rainy and cold winters.
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