Warrenton High School
Address
1700 SE Main Warrenton, Oregon, Clatsop, 97146  United States
Coordinates	46°08′50″N 123°55′42″W / 46.147254°N 123.92826°W / 46.147254; -123.92826Coordinates: 46°08′50″N 123°55′42″W / 46.147254°N 123.92826°W / 46.147254; -123.92826
Information
Type	Public
Opened	1920
School district	Warrenton-Hammond School District
Principal	Rod Heyen
Grades	9-12
Number of students	285[1]
Campus size	25 Acres[citation needed]
Campus	Rural
Color(s)	Purple and White
Athletics conference	OSAA
Mascot	Warriors
Website	http://www.gowarrenton.com/?q=taxonomy/term/40

Warrenton High School is a public high school in Warrenton, Oregon, United States. It is home to one of the first on-campus high school fish hatcheries and aquaculture programs in the State of Oregon.^{[citation needed]}

Contents 1 Academics 2 Fisheries program 3 Notable alumni 4 References

[edit] Academics

In 2008, 86% of the school's seniors received their high school diploma. Of 70 students, 60 graduated, 8 dropped out, and 2 are still in high school.^[2][3]

[edit] Fisheries program

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The Fisheries Program at WHS started out as the "fish farm club" and later became the aquaculture class in the early 1960s. The program was conceived and began in the later parts of the 1950s. It started with rearing salmonids in buckets and releasing them into the on-campus Skipanon River, and grew to eventually being one of the pioneers of netpen rearing in the Pacific Northwest, with the first netpens built in the 1960s. Warrenton was founded under water and after its diking and incorporation as a city, it still was mostly wetland -- the fish rearing operation up until the 1970s was no exception. At times reaching only one board in width a wooden catwalk was the only way to the "fish farm" operations, until the early 1970s when the Oregon National Guard cleared and built a road to the pump shed. The first on-campus fish hatchery was built in 1974 by the aquaculture, shop, welding, and PE classes alongside community volunteers directing the engineering.

During the early to mid 1980s, the operations expanded to the Warrenton Municipal Sewer Ponds in the form of net pens. This operation recorded extremely high growth rates. The fish were tested and later released. The test results revealed that the fish were healthy and consumable, despite their environment.

A new 2,000 sq ft (190 m²) fisheries rearing and research facility was built by WarHF, a non-profit corporation founded in 2005. It was finished in 2007.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Notable alumni

• Brian Bruney - Relief pitcher for the New York Yankees

[edit] References