Union High School is an American public high school in Vancouver, Washington. It is part of the Evergreen Public Schools school district. While the campus is located within the proper city limits of Vancouver, it has a Camas area zip code. The campus was completed in July 2007. Union High School's principal is Griffin Peyton. The school colors are black, silver, and red. The school's mascot is the Titan.
About
Union opened in the fall of 2007 with students consisting of only freshmen, sophomores, and a handful of juniors. The original Union High School was founded in 1910. James Blair was the first principal.
It is the fourth high school built in the Evergreen School District – Evergreen High School was the first, Mountain View High School was second, and Heritage High School was the third. The four high schools share one football stadium, McKenzie Stadium, which is adjacent to Evergreen High School.
The school and campus were developed with the concept of utilizing contemporary educational technology. The design collaboration for the school won it a 2007 Community Development Department Community Pride Design award.
In June 2010 Newsweek magazine listed Union High School in its annual list of “America’s Best High Schools,” which includes 1,600, or about 6 percent, of the nation's high schools. UHS was listed 572nd nationally and 8th out of 32 high schools listed in the state of Washington.
Sports
The Union football team is one of the school's most prominent athletic teams. They had a record of 6-3 in their first year without seniors. In 2008, the undefeated Titans lost to Bellevue High School in the 3A state championship game. The Titans won 3A GSHL league titles in 2008, and 2009. The Titans earned 2nd place 4A GSHL titles in 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013 and finished 1st in 2017 and 2018. In 2018 the undefeated Titans beat Lake Stevens High School 52-20 in the 4A state championship, receiving their first state title in football.
Union's wrestling team are five-time Clark County champions, five-time GSHL league champions, six-time district champions, and three-time regional champions. In 2011, Titan wrestling took the team title at the prestigious Pacific Coast Championships, and in 2012 and 2014 they won state trophies, placing 4th and 3rd respectively. Union's individual state champions include Clint Coulter (2010), John "Junior" Godinho (2014), Alex Berfanger (2014) and two-time state champs Dan Snediker and Ethan Rowton.
The cheer squad also placed 2nd at state.
Union's track and field has seen many accomplishments in its short history. In its first year, the track team finished second at state.
The Union Titans softball team were league, district and regional champs, and then took 3rd in state.
The Union Titans boys' basketball program is among the finest in the state, having won or competed in state championships nearly every year. The 2017 varsity boys' team won 2nd place in the state's 4A division.
The Union Titans girls' golf team won the 3A league and district titles in 2010. In the 4A classification they took district in 2011, and league and district titles in 2012.
The Union girls soccer team won the 4A GSHL league and district championship in 2019. They had an undefeated season in 2019 and they advanced to the state quarterfinals.
Campus
The Union High School Campus has five different site-built buildings which house the four different academic academies and the Student Commons, and a large modular unit. The five campus buildings are the Leadership and Business building (100), the Engineering and Environmental Sciences building (200), International Studies and Athletics building (300), the Visual and Performing Arts building (400), and the Student Union (500). The last building (600) is a multi-use building housing such programs as American Sign Language and Dance. Each building excluding the Student Union contains the basic core classes including math, general science, and English. Each building also contains specialty classes specific to that building.
Every classroom throughout all the buildings has a common set of technology resources installed, including a video projector, a document camera, and speech amplification system for teachers.
Union High School also features wireless hot spots which cover the entire campus. Students can use the campus Wi-fi system to connect to their student district computer account, and access school computer resources, to work on school assignments without the need to check into a school computer lab.