Faith Bible High School

Faith Bible Christian School was founded in 1976 as part of the Faith Bible Church.[3] The school later became a nondenominational Christian school.[3] The school offered classes from preschool through twelfth grade.[4] The lower grades are held on a campus in Aloha, with high school classes on the Hillsboro campus along the Tualatin Valley Highway.[5] The high school moved to its present location in 1996.[6] Faith Bible High School became accredited by the Northwest Association of Accredited Schools (NAAS) in 2000.[1]

In February 2001, a student at the high school received a threat via AOL Instant Messenger, threatening to kill the student at school.[7] Due to the threat, the school canceled classes for the day.[7] Later police determined the incident was partly a hoax as the student knew the person making the threats, and the two were in competition with each other for the affections of a girl.[8] Enrollment at the school at that time was about 150,[9] and stood at 148 in 2007.[1] In 2009, the school was a Picturing America Award recipient.[10] The school moved to the AmberGlen area of northeast Hillsboro in April 2018.[11]

Faith Bible High School is a member of the Association of Christian Schools International and has grades nine through twelve at the coeducational school.[12] The school has a staff of 12 on the 3-acre (1.2 ha) campus, and holds classes 180 days per year.[1][12] The campus consists of four modular buildings and one main building, which together house a gymnasium, media center (library), computer lab, and classrooms.[5] As of 2008, the school had 116 students, of which eleventh grade was the largest class with 45 students, while twelfth grade was the smallest with 19 students.[12] Demographically, there were 91 white students, 14 Asian students, 7 Hispanic students, and 4 Black students in the student body.[12]

The school promotes a family atmosphere on the campus.[13] The school also offers the Faces of Faith drama group that presents plays for the community at large.[14] The group is for students that are unable to attend the school’s drama classes.[14] The school also participates in the National Honor Society, a program that recognizes students with superior academic achievement.[15]

Faith Bible's team logo

Faith Bible’s teams are known as the Falcons and have navy blue and white as their official colors.[2] Teams compete at the 2A level primarily in the Oregon School Activities Association’s Northwest League.[2] For some fall sports, teams compete in a special district that spans several OSAA classifications.[2] In the fall season, teams are fielded in boys and girls soccer, volleyball, and boy and girls cross-country.[2] Winter sports are boys and girls basketball, and the spring sports are boys and girls track. The school used to have a co-ed baseball team, but is currently not available for students.[2]