Crescent Valley High School
Crescent Valley High School 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. Aaron McKee has been the principal of the school.
There are two student-run media broadcasting groups, of which students may participate in: The Crescent Crier as the school newspaper and CVTV as the schools broadcast news channel.
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. There is a special-education WINGS program in place at the high school and within the school district that the school is located in for disabled students to attempt to earn a diploma after graduation if they were not able to get one after five years.Crescent Valley offers Spanish and English classes as of the 2025-26 school year and previously offered German and French before then, yet the students still in German and French classes may still finish the courses.
Academic awards
In 2010, a student at the school was honored as a Presidential Scholar, one of three from Oregon. There have been two other Presidential Scholars from this school in the past ten years.The school received a silver ranking from U.S. News & World Reports 2010 "America's Best High Schools" survey.
Athletics
Assistant principal Jon Strowbridge is also the current Athletic Director of CVHS. Crescent Valley High School athletic teams compete in the OSAA 5A-3 Mid-Willamette Conference.State championships:
- Baseball: 2022
- Boys' golf: 1995, 2007, 2019
- Band: 1994, 2009, 2009 †, 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^, 2022
Notable alumni
- Chris Botti, trumpet player
- Meghna Chakrabarti, national journalist, public radio host, podcast host ''
- Robert Garrigus, golfer
- Talanoa Hufanga, NFL football player, PAC-12 Defensive Player of the Year, San Francisco 49ers safety
- Dave Johnson, Olympic decathlete
- David Krane, CEO of GV
- Omar Speights, NFL player
Faculty
- Doug Riesenberg, NFL player and Super Bowl champion with the New York Giants