| Definition of Terms |
Mount Rainier High School |
| School Level |
High school |
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| Grades Offered |
Grades 9 - 12 |
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| County |
King County, WA |
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| Total Students |
1314 students |
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| % Male / % Female |
50% /
50% |
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| Total Classroom Teachers |
56 teachers |
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| Students by Grade |
| Grade 9 - 410 students | | Grade 10 - 337 students | | Grade 11 - 287 students | | Grade 12 - 280 students |
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| Teacher : Student Ratio |
1:23 |
1:21 |
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| Students by Ethnicity |
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| % American Indian |
2% |
6% |
| % Asian |
15% |
6% |
| % Hispanic |
8% |
12% |
| % Black |
13% |
5% |
| % White |
63% |
69% |
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| Additional Student Information |
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| % Eligible for Free Lunch |
25% |
22% |
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| % Eligible for Reduced Lunch |
5% |
6% |
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| % Migrant Students Enrolled |
n/a |
1% |
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| School District Name |
Highline School District |
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| Number of Schools Managed |
42 |
5 |
| Number of Students Managed |
18,679 students |
1,985 students |
| District Total Revenue |
$192,262,000 |
$16,541,000 |
| District Expenditure |
$199,434,000 |
$16,470,000 |
| District Revenue / Student |
$10,293 |
$8,333 |
| District Expenditure / Student |
$10,677 |
$8,297 |
| District Graduation Rates |
65% |
88% |
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- thumb|Mount Rainier High School's 2007 facilityMount Rainier High School is a secondary school in Des Moines, Washington, United States; named for Mount Rainier which can be seen quite well from the school on a clear day, Mount Rainier serves approximately 1680 students and has been active since 1957. It was created to handle the overflow from nearby Highline High School, the district's first High School located in Burien, Washington. A new facility was recently completed and opened in the fall of 2007. During the two year building process, students attended school at the Olympic Interim Site, a former Junior High School.
- With the 2009-10 academic year came three new administrators: Principal Julie Hunter, Assistant Principal Derek Powell, and Assistant Principal Mike O'Donnell.
- Mount Rainier supports the IB Diploma Programme; the IB coordinator is currently Mr. Christopher Wilder.
- New facility
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Highline School District's "Capital Facilities Improvement Bond" which passed in March of 2002 included allocation of funds to rebuild the aging Mount Rainier. The old building complex was demolished in the summer of 2005, with new construction appearing in the late fall of 2005. The project was completed in time for the beginning of the 2007-08 school year (September 5, 2007). The Port of Seattle (operators of Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, near the school) the Federal Aviation Administration and the State of Washington provided funding for noise insulation, generally regarded as a virtual necessity for an efficient learning environment so near to a major airport. After the first academic year at the new Mount Rainier campus, principal Toni Pace announced her resignation, she was succeeded on an interim basis by Heidi Geise, one of the former assistant principals.
- Interim site
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For the two years that the new site was under construction, students attended classes Olympic Interim Site; this created capacity issues, as Olympic was designed as a Junior High/Middle School and didn't have enough classrooms to serve all students. The northwest and south portions of the site were therefore bulldozed, and covered with small portable classrooms, in order to create a high School sized facility. As the new facility was completed in August of 2007, in preparation for the 2007/2008 school year, the portable classrooms were removed from the interim site as it prepared to house Aviation High School
- Demographics
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Mount Rainier is home to a somewhat ethnically diverse population as the school's number of minorities exceeds Washington state averages. 32% of students currently qualify for free or reduced price lunch.
- Athletics
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Mount Rainier has been recently successful in boys' basketball, boys and girls soccer, girls volleyball, baseball, drill team, and most notably boys swimming.
- The boys' swim team has won 6 state AAA titles since 1991, most recently with three straight from 2003-05.
- The drill team has won four 1st place state championship titles, consecutively in 1998, 1999 and 2004 and 2005, being undefeated during the 2005 season. In the 2007-08 season they placed 1st as LW Champs, Sonics Pac West Drill Champions, Kentridge Champions, 1st Place 3A District Champs.
- The boys' soccer team won 3 straight AAA titles from 1987-89 and again in 1991, winning 13 straight games in that stretch. Most recently the team finished second in 2004, and made the state tourney 5 straight years, 2001-05. The girls' team finished second in 1984 and 1999. The team made the state tourney seven of eight years from 1997-2004, finishing 4th the last year.
- The baseball team has made the state AAA tourney four of the last five years, finishing 4th in 2006. The softball team finished 4th in the state in 2004.
- In addition, its track and field team has excelled in the past, winning eight straight North Puget Sound League boys' championships in the 1970s and a state AAA (large schools) championship in 1972 under coach Jim Kennett, and lead by record-setting high jumper Lee Braach. There is a current plan to name a new track for Coach Kennett. There have been several recent individual champions in the distance events.
- The boys' basketball team finished third in the state AAA (large school) championship in 1971, losing to Pasco in a record quadruple overtime semi-final. The team has regained a measure of success, returning to the state tourney in 2004, 2006, 2007, and finishing 4th in 2008.
- The volleyball team made the state tournament four times from 1997 to 2002.
- The football team made the state AAA championship in 1990, losing to Tumwater. It made the state tournament last in 1996, and the playoffs in 2008.
- Notable alumni
- Rusty Humphries - Nationally syndicated radio talk show host (1983)
- Mark Andrew Smith- Graphic Novelist (1993)
- Susan West - Puget Sound area television news reporter (1985)
- External links
- School Sponsored Webpage
- School Overview
- Highline School District webpage
- 2007-08 School Calendar
- 4th Academy
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| About This Zip Code (98198) |
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| Population (Approximate) |
33,561 people |
5,781,196 people |
| % (age 25+) w/College Degree |
29% |
29% |
| Population Average Age |
36 years old
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35 years old |
| Average Household size |
2.5 persons
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2.5 persons |
| Median Household Income |
$46,628
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$46,419 |
| Avg. # of Rooms in Household |
5.1 rooms |
5.4 rooms |
| Median Age of Housing Structure |
37 years old |
37 years old |
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| % Owning / % Renting |
57% / 43% |
64% / 36% |
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