Lincoln High School (generally known simply as Lincoln) is a secondary school located in Portland, Oregon. With an initial enrollment of 45 students, the school was established in 1869, making it one of the two oldest public high schools west of the Mississippi River (the other is San Francisco'sLowell High).[1] It was originally named Portland High School; the name was changed to Lincoln High School in 1908. The school once occupied the five-story building now housing Portland State University's Lincoln Hall.[2] In 2006, the school was one of seven in Oregon ranked among America's 1,200 best high schools (based on Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate, or Cambridge test scores) by Newsweek.[3] It is currently administered by Portland Public Schools. In a July 2006 interview with The Oregonian, former Lincoln High Principal Peter Hamilton described it as "a classic college preparatory school." Lincoln is a part of the International Baccalaureate (IB) program, and has averaged roughly 38 successful IB diploma candidates over each of the past three years. The school newspaper, The Cardinal Times, was established in 1897 and is the oldest continually-published high school newspaper in the West.
