Pharos High

Pharos High School, simply known as Pharos High, is a private high school in Cape St. Joan, Oregon, United States. It is the city's only private non-college educational facility.
Located in St. Joan Beach it is a school for the children of the wealthy population of Cape St. Joan, extravagantly funded through tuition fees and generous donations. While it enjoys an excellent reputation in terms of academics, it has a poor reputation amongst students of other schools and is often seen as a prime example of the extreme wealth gap in Cape St. Joan.

Notable teachers and students

(WIP)

Architecture

Buildings on the campus of Pharos High are constructed in the Richardsonian Romanesque Revivial style, with concessions made for large windows. The interior of the main building is clad in wood, walls often hung with paintings or backdrop to showcases of awards won by the school's students.
The campus features a sports field, a lavishly equipped gym, an olympic norm swimming pool, a lab building, a separate building for school clubs and even a small boarding house for students from outside the city.

History

Pharos High was constructed starting in 1956 and took two years to complete. Named after the "Pharos", a name for the lighthouse that used to stand near St. Joan Beach to distinguish it from the larger lighthouse at the edge of Cliffside, it admitted its first students in 1959.
Major renovations and modernisations occured 1971, 1992 and again in 2010, with minor modernisations being carried out all the time.

Type

School

Number of students

~500