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Camas High School
Address
Map
26900 SE 15th St.

Camas
,
Washington

United States
Coordinates45°36′44″N 122°23′54″W / 45.61222°N 122.39833°W / 45.61222; -122.39833
Information
TypePublic
Established2003 (current building)
School districtCamas Public School District
PrincipalDr. Liza Sejkora
Number of students2,063 (Mar. 2016)
Color(s)Red and black   
MascotThe Mean Machine
WebsiteCamas High School

Camas High School is an American public high school located in Clark County, in the city of Camas, Washington. The current principal is Dr. Liza Sejkora.

It has a grade span of 9th through 12th, and contains a total of 2,115 students as of March 2018.[1] It is operated by the Camas School District and includes a complement of 99 classroom teachers. The Camas High School colors are red, black, and white, the mascot is a Mean Machine, and their team name is the Papermakers.

Demographics

As of the 2016 school year, Camas High School contained 50.6% male students and 49.4% female students. Student ethnicity: 0.4% Native American/Alaskan Native; 6.9% Asian; 0.9% African American; 7.4% Hispanic; 77.0% Caucasian; and 7.1% two or more races. The average years of teacher experience was 11.1. The percentage of teachers with at least a master's degree was 84.4%. The dropout rate for the 2008/2009 school year was 1.1%, with a 92.5% on-time graduation rate. As of May 2010, 10.2% of students were enrolled in some sort of special education program. In the 2012/2013 school year, CHS had 1,893 students. 50.8% were male while 49.2% were female. The student body this year was 0.4% American Indian/Alaskan Native, 6.4% Asian, 0.6% Pacific Islander, 1.2% Black, 5.9% Hispanic, 80.1% White, and 5.3% of two or more races. [2]

Academics

CHS hosts a total of 156 total classes, as well as close to 15 different special education classes.

All students are required to take four years of American English, two years of Science, three years of Mathematics, two Arts classes, an Occupational education class, and a Physical Education class. Incoming freshmen also take an orientation course to learn study, research, and technological skills, unless they are students in the school's Math, Science, and Technology Magnet Program. Students have the option of taking at-level courses, Pre-Advanced Placement, or regular Advanced Placement courses for many subjects in each grade level.[citation needed]

CHS also hosts programs such as Advanced Placement (AP) classes, as well as the ability to take advanced classes at nearby Clark College through taking such exams as Running Start, which when completed, will provide college money and credit for students. Another noted program at Camas High School is the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) Magnet program.[citation needed]

Also supported is the Senior Project, which is a program completed by seniors in which students must apply skills they have learned to a culminating project and paper of, totaling at least 40 hours of work. Students often use this as a way to pursue their interests in individual projects or as job shadows of professionals in the community, or benefit their community through charity or community service work. Failure to complete the project and accompanying paper will result in the inability to graduate on time.[citation needed]

Athletics

Camas High School supports a large variety of sports, competing in the Greater St. Helens League of WIAA District IV. Several included are common, such as wrestling, boys' and girls' swimming, girls' volleyball, girls' dance, boys' and girls' basketball, football, baseball, cross country, softball, boys' and girls' golf, boys' and girls' tennis, girls bowling, track and field, boys' and girls' soccer, and girls' gymnastics. Their team name is the Papermakers, and their mascot is a humanized mechanical paper-rolling machine, which commemorates the town's founding industry, the production of paper goods at the Georgia Pacific paper mill.

State champions

  • Boys' soccer: 2006, 2008, 2011[3]
  • Football: 2016
  • Girls' Cross Country: 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015
  • Girls' Soccer: 2005, 2016
  • Girls' Tennis: 1977
  • Softball: 2002
  • Boys' Swimming: 2017, 2018
  • Gymnastics: 2017

State runners-up

  • Baseball: 2010[3]
  • Boys' Golf: 2009
  • Boys' Soccer: 2003, 2007
  • Boys' Track: 1984
  • Football: 2013
  • Volleyball: 2000
  • Girls' Cross County: 2013, 2016
  • Boys' Swimming: 2016

Extracurricular activities

Clubs

Besides sports, CHS also supports various clubs and non-sporting teams. Some major clubs include Key Club International, DECA, FIRST Robotics Team, the National Honor Society, FCCLA, an award-winning Mock Trial team, Science Olympiad, in which Camas is a National contender, and Knowledge Bowl, in which Camas is a state contender.

Camas High School also operates school programs, such as yearbook, the Camasonian (the school newspaper), and various plays (including a fall production, a spring musical, and student-directed productions). The drama department has a policy of not repeating a play once it has been performed.

Arts

Camas also has an award-winning band (158-plus members).[citation needed] All students participate in pep band, marching band (field shows, parades, and occasional "flash band" performances) and either the Symphonic or Concert Band.[citation needed] Jazz and Stage bands meet during zero hour before school, a pit orchestra accompanies the spring musical, and the wind ensemble includes the top students from each section.[citation needed] Director Richard Mancini writes parade music (which is often memorized), and students are encouraged to write cadences, full band compositions, and choreography (previous compositions include original versions of "Suicide Trombones" and "Jump on It").[citation needed]

The Camas High School Choir Program is also an internationally acclaimed program consisting of around 150 members.[citation needed] It has taken students on tours to Vancouver BC and Boise, Idaho among others. It's choirs and members have sang with many national groups including ACDA NW Honor Choirs, the National Honor Choir, and the Stangland Family Youth Choral Academy which resides with the Oregon Bach Festival at the University of Oregon.[4]

Notable alumni

References

  1. ^ "office of superintendent of public instruction". reportcard.ospi.k12.wa.us/summary.aspx?groupLevel=District&schoolId=3365&reportLevel=School&yrs=2015-16&year=2015-16. {{cite web}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help); Missing or empty |url= (help)
  2. ^ http://reportcard.ospi.k12.wa.us/summary.aspx?groupLevel=District&schoolId=3365&reportLevel=School&orgLinkId=3365&yrs=&year=2012-13
  3. ^ a b Washington Interscholastic Athletics Association. Tournament History: Champion Information
  4. ^ "Oregon Bach Festival". July 21, 2017. {{cite web}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help); Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help); Missing or empty |url= (help)
  5. ^ "Camas' Taylor Williams gets the call by the Milwaukee Brewers". Camas-Washougal Post-Record. Retrieved December 3, 2014.

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