Kentwood High School (Washington)
| Kentwood High School | |
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Covington, Washington United States |
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| Information | |
| Type | Public secondary |
| Motto | Successfully Preparing All Students For Their Futures |
| Established | 1981 |
| School district | Kent School District |
| Principal | John R. Kniseley II |
| Grades | 9–12 |
| Enrollment | 2,136 (2009) |
| Campus | Suburban |
| Color(s) | Green, Black, Silver, and White |
| Mascot | Conquerors |
| Affiliation | WIAA 4A Division |
| Website | www |
Kentwood High School is a high school in Covington, Washington. Kentwood is one of four high schools in the Kent School District. It serves students in grades nine through twelve who live in mainly in the east central region of the district. Its main feeder schools are Mattson and Meridian Middle Schools.
Kentwood is one of Washington state's largest high schools; its enrollment of more than 2,000 students even exceeds the enrollment of most other 4A high schools there.
Kentwood High School, offers Advanced Placement classes in US History, European History, Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, Art, Literature, Statistics, Calculus (AB and BC), Music Theory, Biology, Chemistry, Physics B, Language and Composition, and Psychology. The availability of these classes is contingent upon enough registrations for them. AP Music Theory and AP Statistics in particular deal with this problem.
At Kentwood, freshmen and sophomores are placed into English, Social Studies classes and depending upon past grades and test scores, they will be put into either honors or core classes.
Foreign Language classes available for students to take are French (4 years), Spanish (4 years), American Sign Language (4 years), Japanese (4 years), and Mandarin Chinese (4 years). Upper level (third or fourth year) French and Spanish classes offer college credit to students who participate in the University of Washington's College in the high school program.
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