High School

This week, Portland is the host city for a national high school tournament in a sport you may not even know local high school athletes still participate in: racquetball. Oregon is one of two remaining hubs for the sport natinally.

Oregon schools showed slow but steady increases in statewide graduation rates year after year leading up to the pandemic. Now, the rate hovers around 81%.

Students from Hudson’s Bay High School walked out of class on Monday and marched to the Vancouver Public Schools headquarters, where they protested the district’s handling of sexual misconduct allegations against a teacher.

AP U.S. History teacher Paul Huard joins us with more details on the project and why it’s important for American students to learn about Ukraine.

A new national report finds a big demographic change is coming: a drop in the number of high school graduates in Oregon and across the country.

The districts employees on administrative leave are mostly from St. Helens High School, but there are others from middle and elementary schools.

The student athletes and coaches for David Douglas High School’s Football team in Portland say four out of the five weeks of this season, they’ve faced racist chants and slurs during away games.

Members of the Class of 2025 are growing up and finding jobs, something that develops independence and sometimes competes with another important goal: graduating high school. But online school and other options today are helping ease that transition.

The book will still be available in school libraries, but it was deemed ‘not suitable’ for 10th-grade English Language Arts students.

A weeklong overnight camp for Oregon high school students marries mariachi music with STEM — science, math, technology and engineering — workshops. The program bets music will encourage young people, especially Latinx youth, toward in-demand high tech jobs.