Pleasant Hill High School (Oregon)

Pleasant Hill High School is a public school in Pleasant Hill, Oregon, United States, serving grades six through twelve. The school served grades nine through twelve until 2009, when the Pleasant Hill School District closed the district's Junior High School because of declining enrollment and funding issues. The students were redistributed, K-5 going to the middle school buildings and 6-12 going to the high school buildings.^[4] The current high school building was constructed in 1961,^[5] and rebuilt in 2016.^[6]

Pleasant Hill High School
Address
36386 Highway 58 Pleasant Hill , (Lane County) , Oregon 97455 United States
Coordinates	43.957109°N 122.916455°W / 43.957109; -122.916455
Information
Type	Public
School district	Pleasant Hill School District
Principal	TBD[1]
Grades	6-12[1]
Number of students	583 Transfers (2016-17)[2]
Color(s)	Navy and gold     [3]
Athletics conference	OSAA PacWest Conference 3A[3]
Mascot	Billy goat[3]
Team name	Billies[3]
Website	www.pleasanthill.k12.or.us

Academics

In 1984, Pleasant Hill High School was honored in the Blue Ribbon Schools Program, the highest honor a school can receive in the United States.^[7]

In 2008, 86% of the school's seniors received a high school diploma. Of 96 students, 83 graduated, nine dropped out, three received a modified diploma, and one was still in high school the following year.^[8][9]

Athletics

The school's mascot is the billy goat and its athletic teams' nickname is the "Billies". Formerly the teams were known as the Hillbillies, but only for three years in the "Ma and Pa Kettle" movie era. An early publication of the school in the 1920s was The Goat's Gazette, showing that the original team name did refer to the goat, not "hillbillies."^[5][10]

In 1910, the basketball team went undefeated, beating the University of Oregon's second team as well as Springfield and Eugene high schools.^[5]

Notable alumni

• Russ Francis,^[11] NFL player; Super Bowl Champion with San Francisco 49ers; member of Oregon State Sports Hall of Fame; national and world record holder for javelin, 1971
• Joe Freuen, trombone player in the Cherry Poppin' Daddies
• Everett W. Holstrom, United States Air Force brigadier general and participant in the Doolittle Raid during World War II.^[12]

References

1. "Oregon School Directory 2009-10" (PDF). Oregon Department of Education. p. 48. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-05-26. Retrieved 2009-09-19.
2. "Pleasant Hill High School". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved February 18, 2019.
3. OSAA.org :: Schools
4. Malkin, Whitney (May 17, 2009). "Pleasant Hill school packs up for good". The Register-Guard. Archived from the original on 2019-03-08. Retrieved 2019-03-07.
5. "PHHS in 1910". Pleasant Hill School District. Archived from the original on 2009-12-23. Retrieved 2009-09-19.
6. Hubbard, Saul. "Lane County permit delays slow upgrade of schools". The Register-Guard. Archived from the original on 2019-07-14. Retrieved 2019-07-14.
7. "Archived: Blue Ribbon Schools Program, Schools Recognized 1982-1983 Through 1999-2002 (PDF)" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-03-26. Retrieved 2009-07-04.
8. "State releases high school graduation rates". The Oregonian. 2009-06-30. Retrieved 2009-07-01.
9. "Oregon dropout rates for 2008". The Oregonian. 2009-06-30. Retrieved 2009-07-01.
10. "Pleasant Hill, Santa Clara Top Standings in Six-Man B League". The Register-Guard. October 8, 1939. Retrieved 2009-09-19.
11. "Russ Francis – Football". Oregon Sports Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on March 1, 2012. Retrieved June 28, 2011.
12. "Brigadier General Everett W. Holstrom". af.mil. Retrieved October 10, 2022.