Old Bend High School
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Bend High School
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Bend High School front entrance
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| Location | Bend, Oregon, USA |
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| Coordinates | 44°03′23″N 121°18′58″W / 44.05626°N 121.31612°WCoordinates: 44°03′23″N 121°18′58″W / 44.05626°N 121.31612°W |
| Built | 1924 |
| Architect | Hugh A. Thompson |
| Architectural style | Beaux Arts |
| NRHP reference # | 93000916 |
| Added to NRHP | 1993 |
The Old Bend High School is a historic school building in Bend, Oregon, in the United States. Opened in 1925, the building served as a public high school for 31 years and a junior high school for an additional 22 years before being transitioned in 1979 into its current role as the administrative headquarters for the Bend-La Pine School District.
Because of its unique architecture and history, the Old Bend High School is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Bend's first schoolhouse was opened in 1887. It was located in an abandoned cabin near the Deschutes River in what is now Drake Park. That schoolhouse was replaced in 1904 by a three-story wood-frame school building located at the north end of Bend's downtown area, near where the Deschutes County Court House is located today. The first high school curriculum was developed that same year, by Ruth Reid, who was the Bend School District’s first principal.
In 1913, the people of Bend passed a school bond issue that provided $23,000 for the purchase of property and the construction of a modern public school. The result was the three-story Reid School finished in 1914. The new school accommodated 241 students from first grade through high school. Because the Great Northern and Union Pacific railroads had opened routes into Central Oregon in 1911, the community was growing rapidly. As a result, 42 of the 241 children who attended the Reid School in 1914 were new students.
In 1917, a new eight-room brick high school was built in downtown Bend. In its first year, the high school enrollment was 115 students. As the number of students continued to grow, the classrooms became overcrowded. By 1920, the high school had overflowed into sixteen temporary classrooms located in several downtown buildings including two cellars.
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