Type Public Grades 9-12 Total enrollment 1,563 (2007) Phone +1 541-790-6600 | Principal Bob Bolden Mascot Fighting Irishman Color Green District Eugene School District | |
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Number of students 1706 (2009)
1450 (2015) Athletics conference OSAA Southwest Conference 6A-6 Address 2455 Willakenzie Rd, Eugene, OR 97401, USA Similar South Eugene High Sch, North Eugene High Sch, Willamette High School, Cal Young Middle School, Springfield High School | ||
Henry D. Sheldon High School is a public high school in Eugene, Oregon, United States. The school's nickname is the Fighting Irish. Sheldon is one of four traditional high schools in the Eugene School District.
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History
Sheldon High School opened in the 1963-64 academic year as the third high school in the Eugene School District.
The school gets its name from Dr. Henry D. Sheldon (1874–1948). The following is an excerpt by Martin Schmitt written for the Oregon Historical Quarterly in March 1951.
Henry D. Sheldon was one of the Northwest’s foremost educators during the first half of this century, helping to build Oregon’s public high school system, the school of education at the University of Oregon and the university itself.
Sheldon came to Oregon at a time when education as a curriculum was just beginning to emerge from a group of courses that included psychology, philosophy, and pedagogy (teaching). He was a pioneer in child psychology and educational inquiry. Sheldon’s attempts to broaden the professional education curriculum, and raise the standards of teacher education form a major theme of his earlier letters.
Dr. Sheldon immediately understood that improved teacher training in Oregon was a useless effort unless the condition of secondary schools underwent a concurrent major improvement.
Academics
In 2008, 89% of the school's seniors received their high school diploma. Of 401 students, 358 graduated, 32 dropped out, and 11 are still in high school.
Athletics
Sheldon plays at the 6A level. The football team was also nominated twenty-fourth in the nation by USA Today in 2002.
State championships
Includes team championships.
Team sports fall
Team sports winter
Team sports spring
Activities
OSAA, Oregon's governing sports body, also awards state championships in competitions it names "activities".
Mr. Irish
Sheldon annually presents a Mr. Irish pageant in which ten senior boys, nominated by senior girls, compete in a variety pageant, ultimately to select "Mr. Irish." The program raises funds for the Children's Miracle Network. As of 2002, the program was in its tenth year, had raised a total of $1,000,000 in donations, and had spread to twenty other regional high schools. In 2014, Sheldon and other high schools who do similar pageants began including the senior girls, making it the "Mr. and Mrs. Irish" pageant.
Newspaper
The Talisman is the student newspaper. The newspaper is published twice per term and was awarded the Columbia Scholastic Press Association's Silver Crown Award for high school newspapers in 1988.
Radio
Sheldon is home to KRVM (AM) and KRVM (FM), a public access radio station which includes student involvement.
Television
Sheldon also has a television station in the same building as the radio station which allows students to explore interests in television broadcasting.
Awards
Sheldon won The Oregonian Cup, an OSAA award for "overall school excellence in academics, activities, athletics and sportsmanship," in the 2001-2002 and 2002–2003 years.
In June 2010, KGW and The Register-Guard reported that Sheldon made Newsweek's annual list of the nation's best public high schools of the year, ranking second best in Oregon and 665th in the nation.