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Take a look. Pasco unveils new logo for its innovative high school opening fall 2025

High school students in Pasco will learn tools of various trades underneath tones of sky blue and copper orange.

Pasco School District staff and administrators are unveiling new branding concepts for Orion High School at Tuesday’s school board meeting.

That includes the school’s logo, which features a Lockheed P-3 Orion plane flying through a colorful and star-studded “O.”

Pasco School District staff and administrators will unveil preliminary branding concepts this week for their new technical high school opening fall 2025.
Pasco School District staff and administrators will unveil preliminary branding concepts this week for their new technical high school opening fall 2025. Courtesy Pasco School District

The imagery is meant to emphasize the metaphorical connection between flight and an education centered in trades education.

Orion High School is one of two schools being built this year thanks to passage of a 21-year, $195.5 million construction bond that voters approved last year.

When it opens in fall 2025, Orion will serve 600 in-district students, who will graduate with workforce-ready credentials, industry certifications and a hands-on learning experience.

The educational experience will be similar to that of Tri-Tech Skills Center or Delta High School.

The technical school will be the first high school to operate in east Pasco, and will be at the corner of Salt Lake Street and Utah Avenue, near Ochoa Middle School. The school district hopes to go out to bid on the project this spring.

Eric Rosane
Tri-City Herald
Eric Rosane is the Tri-City Herald’s Civic Accountability Reporter focused on Education and Local Government. Before coming to the Herald in February 2022, he worked at the Daily Chronicle in Lewis County covering schools, floods, fish, dams and the Legislature. He graduated from Central Washington University in 2018.  Support my work with a digital subscription
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