| Lincoln High School | |
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| Address | |
| 1600 SW Salmon Street Portland, Oregon, Multnomah County, 97205 USA |
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| Information | |
| Type | Public |
| Opened | 1869 |
| School district | Portland Public Schools |
| Principal | Peyton Chapman[1][2] |
| Faculty | 78[3] |
| Grades | 9-12[2] |
| Number of students | 1,395[4] |
| Color(s) | Red and White [1] |
| Athletics conference | OSAA Portland Interscholastic League 6A-1[1] |
| Mascot | Cardinals[1] |
| Team name | Lincoln Cardinals |
| Newspaper | The Cardinal Times |
| Website | Official website |
Lincoln High School, known as Lincoln, is a public high school located in the Goose Hollow neighborhood of Portland, Oregon, United States. It was established in 1869.
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With an initial enrollment of 45 students, the school was established in 1869[5] as the Portland High School on Morrison Street.[6] The principal was J.W. Johnson.[7] It is one of the two oldest public high schools west of the Mississippi River (the other is San Francisco's Lowell High).[5]
In 1889, a "very successful" night school program was started at the building.[8] The school was renamed Lincoln High School in 1909,[6] then moved to the 45-room South Park Blocks location (now known as Lincoln Hall) when construction was completed in 1912.[6][9]
In 1937, the school had grown to 1580 students and 53 teachers.[6] In 1972, it had 1253 students, 7% of which were black (a contemporary report noted they were mostly "voluntary transfers"); 4.3% of the students were on welfare.[10]
Due to the baby boom and passing of a $25 million building levy by the school district in 1947, a new high school was slated.[8] The existing building was sold to the Vanport Extension Center (now Portland State University) in April 1949 for $875,000, with the intention that the high school would not leave for "at least two years."[8] Land was cleared for the school by June 1950 on the former Jacob Kamm House property.[8]
The student population is 75% white, 9% Asian/Pacific Islander, 7% Latino, 5% African American.[4] About 84% of students live within the school boundaries, the second-highest percentage in the district, behind Wilson.[4]
In 2006, the school was one of seven in Oregon ranked among America's 1,200 best high schools (based on Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate, or Cambridge test scores) by Newsweek.[11] In 2008, Lincoln was voted 2nd out of all 261 of the public high schools in all of the state of Oregon, having the School of Science and Technology from the Beaverton School District in 1st place.[12]
In 2008, 89% of the school's seniors received their high school diploma. Of 372 students, 330 graduated, 34 dropped out, 4 received a modified diploma, and 4 are still in high school.[13][14]
Lincoln is a part of the International Baccalaureate (IB) program, and has averaged roughly 38 successful IB diploma candidates over each of the past three years from 2009.[15]
Lincoln has 60 classroom teachers, 2.5 special instruction teachers, 4 educational assistants, 5 student counselors, an alternative education teacher, and a library/media specialist. Programs provide the highest quality-academic and extracurricular opportunities with a strong college preparatory program. Basic high school curriculum is enhanced with advanced course work in English, social sciences, foreign languages, mathematics and physical and life sciences.[16]
In a July 2006 interview with The Oregonian, former Lincoln High Principal Peter Hamilton described it as "a classic college preparatory school."[17] It is home to more National Merit scholarship semifinalists than any other public or private high school in Oregon.[18]
The school received a silver ranking from U.S. News & World Report's 2010 "America's Best High Schools" survey.[19][20]
In 2010, a student at the school was honored as a Presidential Scholar, one of three from Oregon.[21]
Lincoln's nationally renowned constitution team has won twenty state championships and several national titles. Most recently, Lincoln's Constitution Team won the 2010 state competition,[22] then placed fourth out of 52 teams (all states plus Washington, D.C. and the territory of the Northern Mariana Islands) in the 2010 National championship in Washington D.C.[23]
The Lincoln Dancers have been State Champions in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, and 2010. They have also won the PIL District Champions title for ten consecutive years.
The school newspaper, The Cardinal Times, was established in 1897 and is the oldest continually-published high school newspaper in the West.
In 2008, the senior prank received media coverage.[24]
Lincoln High School also boasts an internationally ranked robotics team (ping: 7 MHz of Adrenaline). In the 2008 MATE underwater robotics competition, ping won the Pacific Northwest regional competition and placed fourth at the international competition at UCSD. The team also competes in FIRST, where they placed fifth at the Oregon Regional in 2009.[25]
A couple of Lincoln's athletic coaches have been in trouble in the year of 2009. On February 21, 2009, David Adelman, Lincoln's boys' basketball coach, has been arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence. This was Adelman's second DUI charge since June 2005, a year before he became the school's basketball coach. 27-year old Adelman, son of veteran NBA coach Rick Adelman (former coach of the Portland Trail Blazers and current coach of the Houston Rockets), had to apologize to both his players and the Lincoln staff. However, principal Peyton Chapman decided to keep Adelman for the remainder of the basketball season.[26]
In late-March of that same year, Michael Todd, Lincoln's baseball coach, has been in trouble with the school staff when he took three of his players, all aged 18, to a strip club while in San Francisco for a spring break baseball tournament. 25-year old Todd, about to be fired, decided to resign from being Lincoln's baseball coach and is no longer part of Portland Public Schools.[27] The assistant coaches, who also went to the strip club, resigned as well. Neither the identities of the players or the assistant coaches were revealed.[28]
On August 29, the head football coach, 38-year old Chad Carlson, and the two assistant coaches, brothers Kyle (25) and Kacy Fairfax (24), were under arrest for interrupting a police investigation. When they were riding the TriMet to Rose Quarter stadium for an Ultimate Fighting Championship event, a woman complained to police about a man (Kacy) touching her rear. While police were investigating, Carlson and Kyle Fairfax, while drunk with alcohol, kept interrupting the investigation. Kacy Fairfax was also drunk when he groped her. On September 17, Carlson and Kyle pleaded guilty for interfering with the police. They were sentenced to eight hours of community service. However, prosecutors dismissed Kacy Fairfax's charges. After that, the coaches apologized to the Lincoln staff, and the team, telling them that they "let them down" and that they were going to resign as the football coaches from Lincoln.[29]
Also in the fall of 2009, the cheerleading coach and assistant coach resigned after having their decision to demote a cheerleader from varsity to JV overruled by the principal. The cheerleader in question was said to have broken the agreed code of conduct on multiple occasions as well as threatening to drop a teammate during stunt practice. However, after the cheerleader accused the school's administration of being racist, the decision was made to not only keep her on varsity, but also promote her to team captain. The resignation of coaches was followed by the resignation of the cheerleading team and the termination of the program for the remainder of the year.[30]
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