Crescent Valley High School

Crescent Valley High School (CV or CVHS) is a four-year public secondary school in Corvallis, Oregon, United States. Opened in 1971 in a rural location north of the city, it is one of the two traditional high schools of the Corvallis School District.

Crescent Valley High School
Address
4444 Northwest Highland Drive Corvallis , Oregon 97330 United States
Coordinates	44.616°N 123.263°W / 44.616; -123.263
Information
Motto	Commitment to Excellence. and Raider Nation, home of the Rowdy Raiders.
Established	1971
School district	Corvallis School District 509J
Principal	Aaron McKee[1]
Teaching staff	35.34 (FTE)[2]
Grades	9–12
Number of students	942 (2023–2024)[2]
Student to teacher ratio	26.66[2]
Color(s)	Cardinal, gold and black      [1]
Athletics conference	OSAA 5A-3 Mid-Willamette Conference[1]
Mascot	Rowdy the Raider
Team name	Raiders[1]
Newspaper	Crescent Crier
Yearbook	Revolutionary
Website	cvhs.csd509j.net/

Academics

In 2023, 90% of the school's seniors received their high school diploma on time; 96% of the cohort graduated with a diploma or GED within five years. ^[3]

Academic awards

In 2010, a student at the school was honored as a Presidential Scholar, one of three from Oregon.^[4] There have been two other Presidential Scholars from this school in the past ten years.^[5]

The school received a silver ranking from U.S. News & World Report's 2010 "America's Best High Schools" survey.^[6][7]

Athletics

Crescent Valley High School athletic teams compete in the OSAA 5A-3 Mid-Willamette Conference.^[1]

State championships:^[8]

• Baseball: 2022
• Boys' golf: 1995, 2007, 2019
• Band: 1994, 2009 (5A Band), 2009 (String Orchestra)†, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016
• Boys' soccer: 1979†, 1996
• Boys' swimming: 2007, 2022, 2025
• Boys' tennis: 2013†, 2014†, 2022
• Cheerleading: 1993, 1999, 2024, 2025
• Choir: 2009
• Girls' basketball: 1978, 2022
• Girls' gymnastics: 1980
• Girls' soccer: 2018, 2019
• Girls' swimming: 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2019, 2020
• Girls' track and field: 2022
• Girls' tennis: 1977, 2022, 2023, 2024
• Girls' cross country: 1987
• Volleyball: 2022, 2023
• Wrestling: 2019, 2020, 2021^,^[9] 2022

(†=Tied with one or more schools)
(^=Oregon Westling Association State Tournament due to COVID-19 pandemic)

Notable alumni

• Chris Botti (1981), trumpet player^[10]
• Meghna Chakrabarti (1993), national journalist, public radio host (On Point, Here & Now), podcast host (Modern Love)^[11]
• Robert Garrigus, golfer^[12]
• Talanoa Hufanga (2018), NFL football player, PAC-12 Defensive Player of the Year, San Francisco 49ers safety
• Dave Johnson (1981), Olympic decathlete
• David Krane (1990), CEO of GV^[13]
• Omar Speights (2019), NFL player^[14]

Faculty

• Doug Riesenberg, NFL player and Super Bowl champion with the New York Giants

See also

• List of high schools in Oregon