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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 2005, the graduation rate was 84%. ==History== 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.〔Philpott, Betty. Hillsboro school began in one-room log cabin in 1854. ''Hillsboro Argus'', October 19, 1976.〕 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 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.〔 The school has been remodeled several times since opening in 1969. The first time was around 1980, when some minor updates such as the covered walkways were added. During the summer of 1999 the school received further updates. Blue and beige paint replaced the old brown colors on the buildings, the commons area was built adjacent to the cafeteria, a new auditorium was constructed, a new building was built to house technology related classes, and the main office was remodeled. After the expansion Hilhi had a total of of space spread out among eleven single-story buildings on campus. During the summer of 2008 the locker rooms were remodeled improving the lighting, showers, and bathrooms. Future plans include the replacement of aging HVAC units and controls by 2011.〔(High School Projects. ) Hillsboro School District. Retrieved July 31, 2008.〕 In 2003, the school, along with all schools in the district, made national news when 17 days of classes were cut from the school year which allowed students to begin summer break in May due to budget cuts to education in Oregon.〔(Oregon schools cutting class. ) CNN.com, May 24, 2003.〕 Teacher Don Domes won the Software Association of Oregon Foundation's Oregon Technology Educator of Year in 2004.〔Blackmun, Maya. Teaching technology. ''The Oregonian'', November 9, 2006.〕 Since 2006 the school has participated in the MIT-Lemelson InvenTeam program. Through the program, the school has received a $10,000 grant for a team of students to invent a self-installable heads-up display for automotive use and a $4,000 grant to invent an industrial sized robotic vacuum/floor cleaning system.〔(MIT: High School Invention Grants: Hillsboro High School InvenTeam. ) Lemelson-MIT. Retrieved on October 29, 2007.〕 The former campus near downtown was demolished in 2009. In the fall of 2015, the school will become the first in the district to implement a mariachi program into the curriculum. This program would, “address HSD’s overall strategic plan in the areas of instruction, engagement, and equity.” 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hillsboro High School (Oregon)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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