President Ulysses S. Grant High School (colloquially Grant High School) is a public high school in the Grant Park neighborhood of Portland, Oregon, United States.
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History
New Grant HS virtual walkthrough 4 21 17 - This is a rough visualization walk through of the new Grant High School that will begin construction in June of 2017 and be completed in the fall of 2019. Grant is the last of the three high...
Grant opened in September 1924, with 1,191 students. Many of the schools in the Portland Public School district that were built between 1908 and 1932 were designed by architects Floyd Naramore and George Jones. However, so many schools were being built in the early '20s that the district had to hire another architectural company for Grant High School, which was designed in the Classical Revival style by the architect firm Knighton and Howell. In November 1923, the bricklayers working on building Grant went on strike after the district tried to cut costs by using a maintenance worker to lay bricks.
After the Vanport flood in 1948, it was home to the Vanport Extension Center (now Portland State University) through the summer of that year.
A two-year modernization project, funded by a $482 million bond measure in 2012, began in June 2017. The project includes a new three-story common area, a new gym, seismic retrofitting, and additional classroom space.
Student profile
In the 2016â€"2017 school year, Grant's student population was 67.8% white, 8.2% African American, 6.8% Hispanic, 4.7% Asian, 0.6% Native American, 0.2% Pacific Islander, and 11.7% mixed race. About 25% of Grant's students live out of boundaries and transfer in.
In 2008, 92% of the school's seniors received a high school diploma. Of 443 students, 388 graduated, 39 dropped out, six received a modified diploma, and ten were still in high school in 2009. In 2009, 27% of the students were transfers into the school.
Curriculum
Special programs
Grant High School houses the last installment of the Japanese Immersion Program, a 13-year immersion program, begun at Richmond Elementary and continued at Mt. Tabor Middle School.
Extracurricular activities
Grant's Constitution Team has been the state champion twelve times (2002, 2004â€"2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, and 2018).
In 2011, Grant's student newspaper, The Grantonian, was replaced by the 36-page full-color monthly Grant Magazine. In its first year, the magazine won Best In Show at the Oregon Fall Press day. It has also won the Columbia University Scholastic Press Association's Gold Crown award three years in a row, from 2014 through 2016.
Athletics
GHS's mascot is the Grant General, in honor of its namesake General Ulysses S. Grant.
State championships
- Men's football: 1943, 1945, 1946, 1949, 1950, 1963 (tie with North Salem)
- Men's gymnastics: 1982
- Men's baseball: 1958
- Men's basketball: 1969, 1986, 1988, 2008, 2018
- Men's soccer team: 2008
- Men's tennis: 2005
- Men's swimming: 2010
- Men's cross country: 1957, 1958, 1963, 1964
- Men's track and field: 1930, 1931, 1939, 1961, 1965, 1966, 1968, 1970, 1988
- Women's cross country: 1974, 2012
Notable alumni
References
External links
- Official website
