Hood River Valley High School

Hood River Valley High School is a Title 1 school.[5]

The school has a dropout rate of 2.8% and an attendance rate of 94%. Of the 38% of students who took the SAT, the average verbal score was 504 and the average math score was 507.[6] In the 2006 Oregon Statewide Assessments, the score for reading was 57%, the state average being 55%. For science, the score was 50%, below the state average of 62%. In writing the score was 55%, equal to the state average of 55%. The score for math was 38%, and the state average was 45%.[7]

In 2008, 76% of the school's seniors received a high school diploma. Of 314 students, 238 graduated, 53 dropped out, five received a modified diploma, and 18 were still in high school in 2009.[8][9]

Hood River Valley High School is a 5A school in the Columbia River Conference of the OSAA.[1]

Hood River Valley won the 2014 and 2015 5A Soccer State Championships.[10]

Hood River Valley has won two 5A Baseball State Championships, the most recent in 2015, when they beat the Liberty Eagles 2-0.[11] In 1980 HRV also won the state championship, and were buoyed by Mike Christopher throwing the only perfect game in Oregon State Championship Baseball history.[12]

Hood River Valley won their first ever boys 5A Track and Field State Championship in 2016.[13]

The Hood River Valley's Boys Water Polo team also had a historic first state title in 2019.[14]

The Hood River's Girls Water Polo team won back to back state championships in 2016 and 2017. They won a third state championship in 2019, after taking second in 2018. The Water Polo program was only established in 2014, meaning that HRV won 3 state championships in five years. The water polo team is also underfunded. Despite this they've still managed to create a winning team.[15][16]

Hood River Valley High School has operated a team in the FIRST Tech Challenge since 2016, called "Steelhead". The team has consistently qualified for the FIRST Championship almost every year.[17] Steelhead is often ranked 1st in Oregon.[18]

• Andrew Baldwin, Class of 2001,[19] baseball player, Tacoma Rainiers
• Dylan Bauld, Class of 2009; Zach Grace and McKinley Kitts, Class of 2010, of the Los Angeles-based indie pop band Flor[20]
• Travis Bowe, Class of 1999 - writer, producer and voice-over actor, Family Guy, The Cleveland Show, Tosh.0 [21]
• Jeff Lahti, Class of 1974, St. Louis Cardinals pitcher; orchardist in Hood River, Oregon[22]