Henrietta Lacks Health and Bioscience High School

Henrietta Lacks Health and Bioscience High School is a secondary school of modestly sized scale in Vancouver, Washington, run under Evergreen School District (Clark), instructing 467 students in grades 9 through 12.

Evergreen School District (Clark) comprises 39 schools with combined enrollment of 21,603 students; Henrietta Lacks Health and Bioscience High School is among them.

Demographically, Henrietta Lacks Health and Bioscience High School records that 50% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school lists 24% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 7% Asian, 3% Black. By comparison, Clark County as a whole is about 75% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Henrietta Lacks Health and Bioscience High School reports 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 21.6:1 average. Around 44% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

In the surrounding community, census data for Clark County shows median household earnings sit near $97,536, roughly 33% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Clark County's 151 public schools (combined enrollment of about 74,406 students), Henrietta Lacks Health and Bioscience High School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Marrion Elementary School, roughly 0.5 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Henrietta Lacks Health and Bioscience High School operates from a city-core location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 26%: 635 students in 2018 compared to 467 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 65% to 50% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 23.1:1 in 2018 to 18.3:1 in 2025.

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