Lincoln High School

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Lincoln High School, known as Lincoln, is a public high school located in the Goose Hollow neighborhood of Portland, Oregon, United States.

With an initial enrollment of 45 students, the school was established in 1869, making it one of the two oldest public high schools west of the Mississippi River (the other is San Francisco’s Lowell High).[4] It was originally named Portland High School; the name was changed to Lincoln High School in 1908. The school once occupied the five-story building now housing Portland State University’s Lincoln Hall.[5]

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.[6] 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.[7]

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.[8]

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December 30, 2009 by Greg

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