Welcome to Sunset Class of 2030!

We are excited to welcome the Class of 2030 to Sunset High School. By joining Sunset, you are joining a rich tradition of academics, community, and family. We have a wide range of course offerings, student clubs, athletics and activities, and programming to help all students graduate prepared for the next steps in life. At Sunset, we provide opportunities and excellence for all so that students enter to learn and leave to serve. Please see below for information on how to prepare for coming to high school!

This smore will be updated throughout the winter to include updated information for course selection for the 2026-27 school year. You may see several documents that are from 2025-26. We provide last years documents to give you some general ideas of what is coming and will update the documents in December and Janaury. Please check it out as you have questions or come to our upcoming tours or curriculum night.

While our official tour dates are over, if you want to learn more about Sunset or see us in action, come to one of our spring events.

Popular events include:

Footloose the Musical- March 12, 13, 14

Spring Track Meets (select Wednesdays in April)

Artfest May 14th

Choir Variety Show May 29th

Join us on 2/11 for our annual curriculum night. You will have the opportunity to hear about Sunset and our programming, meet with teachers and tour the school. Parents, families and students are welcome to attend.

6:00 Rising 9th Grade Session in Auditorium

6:30 Rising 9th Grade IB Information Parent Session

6:30-8:00 Department Open House

If you missed course selection check out the links below:

Our Interactive Academic Planning Guide is available online at https://sunset.beaverton.k12.or.us/academics/preliminary-program-guide.

The interactive planning guide allows you to click in, view course descriptions and search through departments. If you prefer the booklet style, you can click on the link for program guide and view the same content in booklet form.

When counselors visit middle schools they will share information on student course selection. They will recieve a copy of the Rising 9th Grade Course Selection Sheet. Students will receive this sheet with the counselors and bring it home to review with families. At a later date, each middle school will have students turn in their signed sheet and return it to school.

Our counseling team will be visiting feeder middle schools to provide students information on courses for next year. We will add specific dates finalzie them

Tumwater - 2/9/2026

Meadow Park -2/13/2026

Stoller - 2/3/2026

Cedar Park/Rachel Carson - 2/11/2026

If you do not attend one of the main feeder middle schools above, please join us for our

Other Schools Course Session - February 26 8:00 or 4:45 (pick one to attend)

Ninth graders all take seven classes and advisory.

• 9th Literature and Composition (1.0 credit- year long)
• US History (1.0 credit- year long)
• STEM Physics (1.0 credit- year long)
• Math (1.0 credit- year long)
• Health (0.5 credit- 1 Semester)
• PE (0.5 credit- 1 Semester)
• Electives including World Language, Career Technical Education, Arts and more!

Students will use the Academic Program Guide to help with course selection. https://sunset.beaverton.k12.or.us/academics/preliminary-program-guide

Apollos Unplugged- February 13

Cram The Stands- February 27

Footloose the Musical- March 5-7 and March 12-14

• Check out our website: https://sunset.beaverton.k12.or.us/(link)

• Follow our social media accounts:

• Instagram: @shsapollos
• Student Leadership Instagram: @shsupdates

· Review the Academic Planning Guide (link) to explore our classes

Click here for our FAQ we use at curriculum night for 8th grade families. It links to SHS resources that may answer your questions.

If you attend a non-feeder middle school, please join us on February 26 at either 8:00 AM or 4:45 PM to select classes.

If you are new to BSD (or have been out of BSD for 8th grade), please complete district paperwork ahead of time. https://www.beaverton.k12.or.us/departments/information-technology/enrolling-your-child. This applies to families who currently attend a private school and will be attending Sunset, or families who live out of district but have just moved into our district.

If you are interested in attending Sunset but do not live in our boundaries, look at our district procedures on transfers. Information can be found here. In district transfers are based on hardships. Hardships are defined as the student:

· is being impacted by a parent or guardian’s military deployment.

· is experiencing instability related to homelessness or foster care placement.

· has a documented medical condition that necessitates a transfer.

· is impacted by the death of a parent.

· is experiencing severe family financial hardship.

· is involved in a documented case of severe harassment, intimidation or bullying.

If you missed the February date and have not scheduled classes, please call and ask for Kelly or Karen in the counseling office. They can get you signed up for a Registration Group so you can pick out classes and talk with a counselor.

We have a vibrant arts program with students participating in visual art (Art 1/2, Ceramics, Graphic Design, Photography and more) and performing arts (Choir, Theater, and Band). Students can take classes in areas of interest and/or join clubs or student groups after school.

We run three theater productions every year. This fall, students are performing a updated version or the classic Romeo and Juliet. In March, join us for Hadestown. https://shstheatre.yolasite.com/.

Our band program not only as competitive classes, but our award-winning SAMBA (Marching Band) performs at school events and around the state every year.

Our choir program has multiple concerts with our Madrigals, Concert Choir, and our student acapella group, Free to Breathe.

We have hope all incoming students find sports and clubs to match their interests. Check out information below on our sports teams. Many sports have summer practices that help new students get ready for the season and meet new classmates.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YZAYo-u0W_2k6UqgtPXFAt_wKwmyqkx2OHOFK8tvoFo/edit?usp=sharing

We have a college and career center that helps prepare students for life after Sunset. Student have lessons every year in advisory to start thinking about their future, planning for applications, participating in mock interviews and preparing resumes. Students also can work with the Aspire program for 1 on 1 mentoring through the college process. We host many college visit and career learning opportunities.

https://sunset.beaverton.k12.or.us/academics/college-and-career-center

We have over 100 student led clubs that meet during the school day or after school. These are a great place for students to explore interests, make friends and have fun.

While parent involvement looks different in high school, we have parents helping with a variety of things throughout the year. We have an active PTO that coordinates volunteer work in the school and during sporting events https://www.sunsetpto.com. We have parents that work with students on college applications through our college and career center. We also have a parent group that meets every few weeks to discuss issues facing our students, mental health, and support each other navigating parenting high schoolers. Our Bilingual Facilitator works with multilingual families to support navigating high school, including monthly meetings in Spanish for parents to learn about high school and their student's opportunities.

Photo credit to Ms. Rozendaal, our Photography and Yearbook teacher for amazing photographs of our students throughout the years.