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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 / 43.21585°N 123.354224°W
Information
Type	Public
Motto	"Where Excellence is Tradition"
Established	1899[citation needed]
School district	Roseburg School District
Principal	Jill Weber
Teaching staff	79.53 (FTE)
Grades	9-12
Number of students	1,665 (2023–2024)
Student to teacher ratio	20.94
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

The Roseburg Indians participate in Oregon's 6A Southwest Conference, except for the football program, which competes in the 5A Midwestern Conference on a temporary basis.^[4]

State championships

Football: 1961, 1981, 1990, 1995, 1996^[5]
Wrestling: 1974, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 ^[6]

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. ^[7]^[8] 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. ^[9]

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

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.^[11] Leodoro was sentenced to be held until he was 25 years old.^[12]

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