Data based on the 2020-2023 academic years shows Lincoln High School's student population consisted of 62.3% White, 11.0% Hispanic, 9.8% Asian, 2.9% Black, 0.3% Native American, 0.2% Pacific Islander, and 12.3% mixed race.[9] About 92% of its students live within the school's neighborhood.[9]
In 2008, 89% of the school's seniors received ahigh school diploma. Of 372 students, 330 graduated, 34 dropped out, four received amodified diploma, and four were still enrolled in high school the following year.[10][11] For the 2010–11 school year, Lincoln had the highest overall graduation rate amongPortland Public high schools, at 84 percent. About 90% of its Asian-American students graduated on time, as did 88% of Latino students. However, only 38% of its five African-American students graduated on time, which was the worst rate in the district.[12]
The 1885 high school building which, in 1909, became the first to take the name Lincoln High School
With an initial enrollment of 45 students, the school was established in 1869 as the Portland High School in the North Central School sited on Block 80 of Couch's Addition (bounded by NW 11th & 12th and Couch & Davis Streets).[16]: 74 The principal was J.W. Johnson.[17] The high school moved from the top floors of the North Central School to the Central School in 1873 (located wherePioneer Courthouse Square is today) and moved again to the Park School (block bounded by Park, 10th, Madison, and Jefferson (now thePortland Art Museum)) in 1878. The first building to be known as Lincoln High School was built at SW 14th and Morrison in 1885,[16]: 79, 85–86 but was still named West Side High School at the time. The land for the 14th and Morrison School was given to the school district by Mrs. Simeon G. Reed (wife of the founder ofReed College) in 1869 and the building was designed by William Stokes, an architect who had recently moved to Portland fromOakland,California. The building was designed by prominent local architectWilliam Stokes and situated in the block bounded by 14th, Morrison, Lownsdale (now 15th) and Alder Streets.[18]
In 1889, a "very successful" night school program was started at the first purpose-built building at SW 14th and Morrison.[17]
The school was renamed Lincoln High School in 1909,[16][19] and moved to the 45-roomSouth Park Blocks location (now known asLincoln Hall) when construction was completed in 1912. The building occupies the block bounded by Market & Mill Streets and Park & Broadway.[16][20] (After the 1912 move, the old building of 1885 was used by the Girls' Polytechnic School. In fall 1928, that school moved to a new building on the east side,[21] leaving the 1885 building vacant,[18] and it was demolished by 1930.)
In 1937, the school had grown to 1,580 students and 53 teachers.[16] In 1972, it had 1,253 students, 7% of whom wereblack (a contemporary report noted they were mostly "voluntary transfers"); 4.3% of the students were on welfare.[22]
Also in 1937, thePortland Police Bureau's anti-leftist "Red Squad" interrogated a student union leader. This rapidly led to the disbanding of theSilver Shirts-affiliated Red Squad.[23]
Due to thebaby boom and passing of a $25 million building levy by the school district in 1947, a new high school was slated.[17] The existing building was sold to the Vanport Extension Center (nowPortland State University) in April 1949 for $875,000, with the intention that the high school would not leave for "at least two years."[17] Land was cleared for the school by June 1950 on the formerJacob Kamm House property.[17]
Lincoln was slated to be completely rebuilt as part of a $790 million bond measure passed in 2017.[24] Construction began in the summer of 2020, with students returning at the beginning of the 2023 school year. The new building was built where the field used to sit, leaving the old building available to attend in the interim years.[25]
The school competes in a variety of sports, and has won numerous district and state championships.[26] Lincoln competes in thePortland Interscholastic League under 6A classification.
^Rose, Joseph (May 4, 2012)."'The Simpsons' map of Portland (What other proof do you need that they're Oregonians?)".The Oregonian.Archived from the original on January 28, 2016. RetrievedJanuary 8, 2016.Lincoln High School, Southwest 18th Avenue just south of Salmon Street. Groening drew and signed a sidewalk portrait of Bart Simpson in wet concrete outside his alma mater. "Class of 1972" appears next to Bart as he strikes his classic "Don't have a cow, man!" pose.
^abcdeAlfred Powers; Howard McKinley Corning, eds. (1937).History of Education in Portland.WPA Adult Education Project. RetrievedOctober 11, 2024 – via State Library of Oregon Digital Collections.
^Hill, Richard L. (November 22, 2006). "OSU graduate will fly space shuttle on next mission".The Oregonian. Portland, Oregon: Oregonian Publishing. pp. A13.
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