Lewis and Clark High School is the oldest comprehensive high school in Spokane, occupying a Collegiate Gothic landmark at 521 W. Fourth Ave. in the Cliff/Cannon neighborhood downtown. The current building, designed by Spokane architect L.L. Rand, was built in 1911-1912 on the foundation of the burned South Central High School and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. The school enrolls roughly 1,700 students and competes as the Tigers in the Greater Spokane League.
LC anchors Spokane Public Schools' downtown enrollment area and offers Advanced Placement coursework, Running Start partnerships, and a long-running performing-arts and athletics tradition. The school's graduation rate consistently runs above 90 percent.
The football program drew sustained scrutiny in 2024 after a Spokane Public Schools investigation found that head coach Joe Ireland and three assistants had used "vulgar comments" about students and created a "negative culture." Athletic director David Hughes retired, the head and two assistant coaches' contracts were not renewed, and Kyle Snell was hired as the new head coach with Marcus Scott as incoming athletic director. The school separately briefly went into a Secure and Teach lockdown in fall 2024 after a student was found with a pellet gun on campus.
Source: WA ERDC Graduate Outcomes.
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