Kentwood High School is a high schoolinCovington, Washington. Kentwood is one of four high schools in the Kent School District. It serves students in grades nine through twelve who mainly live in the east central region of the district. Its main feeder schools are Mattson and Meridian Middle Schools.
Kentwood is one of Washington's largest high schools; its enrollment of more than 2,000 students even exceeds the enrollment of most other 4A high schools in the state. Kentwood High School's mascot is the Conquerors, or the "Conks".
At Kentwood, freshmen and sophomores are placed into English, Social Studies classes and depending upon past grades and test scores.
Foreign Language classes available for students to take are French (4 years), Spanish (4 years), American Sign Language (4 years), Japanese (4 years), and Mandarin Chinese (4 years). Upper level (third or fourth year) French and Spanish classes offer college credit to students who participate in the University of Washington's College in the high school program.
In addition, Kentwood High School was also one of 41 schools in the country named a Grammy Signature in 2004 for their Music Program, which included a check for $1000 USD as a donation to the program.[3]
Kentwood students can also participate in district-wide Kent Crusaders Rugby and Kentwood Water Polo.
Kentwood Football won the Washington State 4A Championship in both 2001 & 2002.[6]
In addition, Kentwood also has an outstanding swim team that continues to make excellent progress each year, with a swimmer breaking a state record during the 2018-2019 season.
