Tri City Schools

Would you like to learn about the Tri-Cities Washington schools, including the Kennewick, Pasco, and Richland school districts?  Are you interested in attending a Tri City college?

Here are some helpful links that will get you started.

Elementary to High School

Find information on all Tri-Cities schools:

Richland Schools

Pasco Schools

Kennewick Schools

Columbia School District

Ki-Be School District

Tri City Colleges

Columbia Basin College - "Columbia Basin College has served Benton and Franklin counties for half a century.

As a public institution, CBC continually expands and renovates programs and structures to meet the community’s needs.  The enrollment of the college has grown from 299 students in 1955 to more than 7,000 students per quarter today.  Still, CBC maintains small class sizes averaging between 22-50 students per class and a talented caring faculty. 

Located in the Tri-Cities, Washington, (Richland, Pasco, and Kennewick) population 150,000, CBC’s main campus is in Pasco, and has a second in Richland." - Excerpt from the Columbia Basin College Website

Washington State University Tri-Cities - "WSU Tri-Cities brings to the communities it serves a gateway to Washington State University, a premier research university. Located on the banks of the Columbia River in north Richland and close to the cities of Pasco and Kennewick and near West Richland and Prosser, the campus is part of WSU's multi-campus system.

WSU Tri-Cities provides access to a college education for students who cannot relocate because of family or job responsibilities.

Students can complete their bachelor's degree or earn a master's degree from WSU at the Tri-Cities campus. WSU Tri-Cities offers an array of programs, from business to science, nursing to agriculture, humanities to engineering, education to environmental science.

Students in the Yakima area also have access to the WSU Yakima Academic Center in the Deccio Higher Education Center Building, Yakima Valley Community College." - Excerpt from the WSU Website

I am an alumni of Richland High School. The mascot is the bomb. There has been much controversy throughout the years that we actually have a mushroom cloud and bomb as our mascot. There have been hundreds of outraged people who feel that it is not appropriate for a high school to flaunt these icons as our symbol. Through all the controversy, the alumni of Richland High have fought through the years to keep this as a symbol of our pride from where we originate from.

Richland, Washington is known for the Hanford Site. Hanford has helped the housing market tremendously through the years. When Hanford lays off employees then the housing market fluctuates tremendously in this area as there are many people in need of selling their homes and either moving away or purchasing smaller ones.

This is how a consumer can tell when the perfect time is to look for housing in this area. Watch the Tri-City Herald for articles on Hanford Layoffs and watch the housing market boom.