Roseburg High School

Roseburg High School
Address
400 West Harvard Avenue Roseburg , (Douglas County) , Oregon 97470 United States
Coordinates	43°12′57″N 123°21′15″W
Information
Type	Public
Motto	"Where Excellence is Tradition"
Established	1899
School district	Roseburg School District
Principal	Jill Weber
Teaching staff	70.07 (FTE)
Grades	9-12
Number of students	1,576 (2017–18)
Student to teacher ratio	22.49
Color(s)	Black and Beaver orange
Athletics conference	OSAA Southwest Conference 6A-6
Team name	Indians
Newspaper	The Orange R
Website	School website

Roseburg High School is a public high school in Roseburg, Oregon, United States.

Campus

The campus is roughly 18 acres (73,000 m²) and contains seven main buildings as well as a track and an artificial turf football field.

Completed in 1926, the "Heritage Building," once referred to as the "Main Building", is the oldest on campus. Constructed out of concrete in a cow pasture known as "Bellows Field," the Heritage Building originally consisted of 15 classrooms, a gymnasium and an auditorium.

At three stories high, the tallest building on campus referred to as "The Commons." is completed in 1964.It is located at the center of the campus and houses the Library/Media Center at the ground floor.

In 2001 a major remodel began that included the erection of three new buildings and the demolition of two old buildings. The Fitness Gymnasium located to the south of the Heritage Building was completed in 2002. The Fine Arts Building was completed in the summer of 2003, housing the Rose Theatre, the cafeteria and the fine arts department. The Main Building was completed in 2004 and is the location of the front office, counseling center and career center.

Athletics

Roseburg High School athletics have a decorated history in football, wrestling, and other sports. In the 1960's and early 1970's Roseburg was a tennis powerhouse winning 12 state championships under Coach Al Hoffman (Hoffman coached from 1949 to 1973). The outdoor building at the Umpqua Valley Tennis Center is named after Hoffman. Beyond tennis, Roseburg has also produced some of the top high school wrestlers in the country, sending students to several universities and garnering championships in 1974, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019 under Steve Lander.

Roseburg High School's football team made the USAToday rankings for the top 25 football teams in the nation in both the 1995 and 1996 seasons under head coach Thurman Bell. During those seasons, the team also won state championships. Under Thurman Bell's replacement Dave Heuberger, Roseburg High School achieved made it to the quarterfinals of the OSAA (Oregon School Activities Association) 6A bracket in the 2021 season.

In 2023, the Oregon School Activities Association allowed Roseburg to drop from the 6A Southwest Conference to the 5A Midwestern Conference for football. Roseburg was the third 6A school to make the transition, following South Eugene High School and Willamette High School. Roseburg will continue to compete at the 6A level in all other sports.

Academics

In 2006, 71% of the school's seniors received a high school diploma. Of 585 students, 427 graduated, 127 dropped out, and 44 were still in high school the following year. In the graduating class of 2021, over 89% of the graduating class completed their diploma or GED, beating the state average in a year that saw most schools decline.

Roseburg High School offers 10 Advanced Placement (AP) classes and opportunities for college credit through Umpqua Community College and Southern Oregon University.

Shooting incident

At 7:45am on February 23, 2006, 14-year-old freshman Vincent Wayne Leordoro shot and critically wounded 16-year-old Joseph Monti in the school's courtyard. Two students followed the shooter and flagged down a police car as he walked away from school. Police confronted him at a nearby restaurant parking lot, where he put a gun to his head before surrendering. School administrators hired security guards as a result of the incident. Leodoro was sentenced to be held until he was 25 years old.

Notable alumni

• Paul Brothers - football player
• Jamie Burke - MLB baseball player
• Troy Calhoun - head coach of the United States Air Force Academy football team
• David Kennerly - Pulitzer prize-winning photographer and Presidential Photographer for Gerald Ford
• Matthew Lessner - director and screenwriter
• Kyle Loomis - football punter
• Nancy Norton - U.S. Navy vice admiral
• Alek Skarlatos - Oregon Army National Guardsman, recipient of the Knights of the Legion of Honour
• Craig Tanner - film director, film producer, and editor
• Chris Thompson - US Olympic Swimmer, Bronze Medalist Sydney 2000
• ZZ Ward - musician