Kingston High School is a

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located in

Kingston, Washington Kingston (formerly Appletree Cove) is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Kitsap County, Washington, United States. The population was 2,099 at the 2010 census. Kingston is along the shores of Appletree Cove and Puget ...

. It is one of two

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in the

North Kitsap School District North Kitsap School District 400 is the school district serving the northern portion of Kitsap County, including the communities of Poulsbo, Keyport, Port Gamble, Hansville, Indianola, Suquamish, and Kingston, Washington. Poulsbo Schools Pou ...

. KHS educates grades 9–12. The school is located on the same site as the North Kitsap school bus barn and

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Demographics

In the 2020-2021 school year, 52.4% of the students at KHS are male and 47.6% of the students are female, 8.3% are Native American, 2.8% are

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n, 1.0% are

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, 15.2% are

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, 1.0% are

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, 11.0% are of

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, and 60.7% are

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. The school has 46 classroom teachers, providing a teacher-to-student ratio of 1:20 (based on 2011 enrollment and staffing).

Athletic programs

KHS offers 19 athletic programs: Baseball, Boys' Basketball, Fastpitch, Girls' Basketball, Cheer, Cross Country, Football, Boys' Golf, Girls' Golf, Gymnastics, Boys' Soccer, Girls' Soccer, Boys' Swimming, Girls' Swimming, Boys' Tennis, Girls' Tennis, Track & Field, Volleyball, Wrestling, and debate. In the 2010–2011 academic year, 14 of these teams won WIAA Scholastic awards.

Site History

Between 1954 and 1975 the property was the site of the

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Launch Site #92 which contained two missile magazines, support buildings, and barracks. The US military has not disclosed if nuclear weapons were ever located on the site. Due to public concerns about potential effects of suspected contaminants at the site, investigations and testing of the site were undertaken in 2003-2004 by the US Environmental Protection Agency and the Washington State Department of Health (DOH), in cooperation with the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR). The testing found that radiation is not present above natural background levels. The agencies concluded that exposure to the soil and drinking water posed no current or future health hazards and found no significant elevations in occurrences of cancer incidence in the area.

Facility

The school opened in 2007 in a new 113,000 square foot facility organized around four internal learning neighborhoods. Architects for the project were

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of Seattle. In 2011, a 47 kW

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system was installed on the roof of the school. The panels were installed by a private sector company which rents the rooftop space from, and sells the electricity generated to, the school district at the same rate as is currently being charged by the utility company. After 10 years, ownership of the panels and the electricity generated is to be transferred to the school district.

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