Lewis and Clark High School

Lewis and Clark High School is a four-year public secondary school in Spokane, Washington, United States. Opened in 1912, it is located at 521 W. Fourth Ave. in the Cliff/Cannon neighborhood of downtown Spokane, bounded by I-90 to the north and MultiCare Deaconess Hospital to the west. It replaced South Central High School, destroyed by fire in 1910, and was named for the two leaders of the Corps of Discovery.^[1]

Demographics[edit]

According to NCES (National Center for Education Statistics) public school data for the 2021-2022, and 2022-2023 school years,^[12] 1,872 students attended Lewis and Clark, with 498 enrolled as Freshman, 504 Sophomores, 436 Juniors, and 434 Seniors.^[12] 51% of the population was male and 40% of the population was female. White students have the biggest ethnic representation at 66.9% with those of two or more races next at 13.1%, Hispanic then follows 9.7%, Asian at 3.2%, African American at 2.7%, Native Hawaiian/ Pacific Islander at 2.3%, American Indian/Alaskan Native at 1.0%.^[12] As of the 2023-2024 school year, 31.2% of students were eligible for free lunch, with an additional 6.6% eligible for a price-reduced lunch. The 2022-2023 school year saw a dropout rate of 5.1%, an on-time graduation rate of 92.6%, and extended graduation rate of 2.3^[13]

Boys basketball: 1926, 1944, 1949

Girls basketball: 2006, 2007, 2008, 2011

Boys cross country: 1961, 1966, 2017

Football: 2007

Boys golf: 2010

Girls golf: 2009

Girls tennis: 2007, 2016

Boys track and field: 1928, 1929, 1944, 1962

Volleyball: 1992, 1994, 2008

Boys wrestling: 1981

named Lewis and Clark High School one of the top 1500 US High Schools in 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, and 2005.

Newsweek Magazine

named Lewis and Clark High School one of the top 25 high school sports programs in the nation, ranking it 12th in 2007–08.^[15]

Sports Illustrated

– former MLB player (Philadelphia Phillies, Chicago Cubs, New York Mets)^[16]

Ed Bouchee

– former MLB player (Boston Braves, Brooklyn Dodgers, Pittsburgh Pirates)

Ed Brandt

Jesse Buchanan – tenth of the University of Idaho (1946–1954)

president

- former football player for the University of Michigan

Abe Cohn

– former National Football League player^[16]

Erik Coleman

– Washington historian^[17]

Paul Dorpat

– quarterback at the University of Notre Dame, and CFL player.^[16]

Bill Etter

(Morfitt) – sportscaster for ESPN^[16]

Neil Everett

- Former All-American, Pro-Bowl NFL Tight End, Detroit Lions

Gail Cogdill

– WNBA basketball player with Indiana Fever^[16]

Briann January

– poet and Pulitzer Prize winner in 1985; studied with Joseph Campbell^[16]

Carolyn Kizer

– architect

Tom Kundig

- journalist and author

Julian Guthrie

– former All-America college football player^[16]

Dan Lynch

Katherine Merck – first from Washington State^[18]

Miss Rodeo America

– former opera singer and star with the Metropolitan Opera^[16]

Patrice Munsel

– actor, Coach, Parenthood^[16]

Craig T. Nelson

– former U.S. Air Force fighter pilot, famous for the Mrkonjić Grad incident^[16]

Scott O'Grady

– actress and model^[19]

Carol Ohmart

– Emmy winning writer, producer, director, and former Saturday Night Live staff writer

Matt Piedmont

– US National Rowing Team^[16]

Jamie Redman

– WNBA basketball player with New York Liberty^[20]

Katelan Redmon

– former CFL player^[16]

Dario Romero

– Nobel Prize winner in chemistry in 2004.^[21]

Irwin Rose

– physicist ^[22]

Eva Silverstein

– former race car driver, Indianapolis 500 winner in 1983.^[23]

Tom Sneva

– member of Spokane City Council and founder of Out There Monthly Magazine.

Jon Snyder

– former MLB player (Philadelphia Phillies, Boston Red Sox, Washington Senators, Los Angeles Angels, St. Louis Cardinals, Chicago Cubs, Cleveland Indians)^[16]