‘Harvest View’ just didn’t cut it. Pasco changes the name of its 3rd high school
Pasco’s third comprehensive high school has a new name three months after parents and students pleaded with the school district to reconsider calling it Harvest View High School.
Drum roll, please — the new name is Sageview High School.
In a unanimous vote Tuesday night, the Pasco School Board renamed the school currently under construction at 6091 Burns Road.
The name was the majority favorite among 5,300 who participated in an online survey Jan. 9-19. When asked to choose their favorite of three names — Sageview, Desert Vista and Harvest View — nearly half chose Sageview.
Respondents also chose the color combination of forest green, black, white, gray and sage as a favorite to be included into the Sageview High School branding and Lobos mascot. Lobos — Spanish for wolves — is a nod to the school district’s 74% Latino population.
In a split 3-2 vote, the Pasco School Board selected Harvest View at its Oct. 24 meeting among five suggestions from the community. Sageview was included in this selection.
A poll voted on by readers of the Tri-City Herald in November showed that many favored the “Rattlers” as a mascot for the new school.
District staff unveiled the Lobos mascot at the Nov. 14 business meeting, but community members showed up en force to ask the school board to reconsider the Harvest View name. One public commenter, a 10-year-old Pasco student, said the name made him feel like he was in a “retirement home.”
The 300,000-square-foot Sageview High School building is about a quarter finished and is expected to open to students in Fall 2025.
The school and its athletic facilities will sit on a 65-acre campus and serve 2,000 students. Sageview will also play host to a unique agriculture CTE program.
The school district also is currently working to redraw its high school boundaries to incorporate the new high school, and is currently accepting feedback on draft boundary proposals.
Nearly 19,000 students attend classes in Pasco and high school enrollment continues to boom. Chiawana and Pasco high schools are the first- and sixth-largest high schools in Washington state.
Construction of the school is being funded with a 21-year, $195.5 million bond voters passed last year. The bond will also build a technical school — Orion High School — that will open Fall 2025 and serve 600 in-district students with workforce-ready credentials, industry certifications and hands-on experience.
Orion will be at the corner of Salt Lake Street and Utah Avenue, near Ochoa Middle School. The district will put the project out to bid this spring.
This story was originally published February 15, 2024 at 5:00 AM.
