Curtis Senior High School is a public high school located in

University Place, Washington University Place is a city in Pierce County, Washington, United States. Its population was 34,866 at the 2020 census. Based on per capita income, University Place ranks 81st of 522 areas in the state of Washington to be ranked. History Universi ...

. Curtis Senior High School is a part of the University Place School District and the only high school in the district. The University Place school district includes most of University Place and portions of Fircrest and Tacoma.

History

The school's namesake comes from the former UPSD Superintendent George R. Curtis. The school opened in 1957 as a joint junior-senior high school at the corner of 40th and Grandview. In 1969, a high school facility was built about 500 yards east of the junior high that then extended up 40th Street. After this, the original site became just a junior high school. In 2009, the original junior high was torn down and a new facility was built about 400 yards northeast of that site.

Academics

Curtis Senior High School offers Advanced Placement classes. The school also offers a

Running Start Running Start is a dual credit enrollment program in Washington, Hawaii, New Hampshire, Montana and Illinois which allows high school juniors and seniors to attend college courses numbered 100 or above, while completing high school. It is simila ...

program for juniors and seniors to take classes at local colleges.

Notable alumni

Beau Baldwin Beau Daniel Baldwin (born May 21, 1972) is an American football coach and former player. He is the offensive coordinator at Arizona State. Previously, He was the head football coach at California Polytechnic State University, a position he held fr ...

- football head coach, Cal Poly *

Scott Cairns Scott Clifford Cairns (born 1954 in Tacoma, Washington) is an American poet, memoirist, librettist, and essayist. Formal education Cairns earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Western Washington University (1977), a Master of Arts degree from H ...

- poet and Guggenheim Fellow * Andrea Geubelle - 2016 Summer Olympics track and field, triple jump *

Gary Larson Gary Larson (born August 14, 1950) is an American cartoonist, environmentalist, and former musician. He is the creator of ''The Far Side'', a single-panel cartoon series that was syndicated internationally to more than 1,900 newspapers for fif ...

- creator and writer of ''

The Far Side ''The Far Side'' is a single-panel comic created by Gary Larson and syndicated by Chronicle Features and then Universal Press Syndicate, which ran from December 31, 1979, to January 1, 1995 (when Larson retired as a cartoonist). Its surreali ...

'' * Mike Levenseller - professional football wide receiver, played 3 seasons in NFL *

Adrienne Martelli Adrienne Elizabeth Martelli (born December 3, 1987) is an American female crew rower from University Place, Washington. She took an Olympic bronze medal in 2012 and a gold medal in the 2015 World Championships. Life Born in Glendale, California ...

- 2012 Summer Olympics bronze medalist in rowing, women's quadruple sculls *

Singor Mobley Singor A. Mobley (born October 12, 1972) is a former American football safety and linebacker in the National Football League and the Canadian Football League, for the Dallas Cowboys and Edmonton Eskimos. He played college football at Washington St ...

- former NFL and Canadian Football League defensive back * Isaiah Thomas - NBA point guard, two-time NBA All-Star in 2016 & 2017 * Chuck Arnold - President of the Seattle Seahawks * Jennifer Cohen - University of Washington Athletic Director *

Morgan Weaver Morgan Victoria Weaver (born October 18, 1997) is an American soccer player who plays as a forward for Portland Thorns FC. College career Weaver played college soccer at Washington State from 2016 to 2019. She scored her first collegiate goals ...

- professional soccer forward for the Portland Thorns FC

References

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