Mariner High School history

With the then-newly-built local Boeing plant looming, voters within the boundaries of the school district approved bonds to fund construction of Mariner High School in 1967.

Having yet to receive additional revenue from the presence of the facility, the district placed three funding measures on the November 1968 ballot; the measures were intended to fund the completion of Mariner and other schools in the district.

Fearing the possibility of receiving a lower bid with a rebid if they elected to pass on the existing one 60 days after the initial opening, the district placed all three measures again on the ballot for January 21, 1969; the measures passed this time, with construction starting the same month.

When Mariner opened, Olympic View was its only feeder school; however, it was not long before Mariner started receiving students from Explorer Junior High School as well upon the latter's opening in 1973.

Just weeks after the September 11 attacks and the start of the 2001 anthrax attacks, Mariner was evacuated on October 10 when pepper spray was released into the school's ventilation system.

A year later, a medical emergency occurred on October 3, 2002 when 16-year-old student Sarah Dotson complained of a headache, then collapsed at 8 AM during her first-period computer class.

As part of the requirements for the more than $1 million grant, Mariner was divided into six small learning communities at the beginning of the 2003–04 school year on September 2, 2003, undergoing a renovation and expansion at the same time that added 28 classrooms to the school.

Investigators later determined that the shooting was gang-related; it was the latest of 82 gang-related shootings that occurred in south Everett since January 2015.

On September 14, 2018, a fight that broke out in a parking lot at Goddard Stadium escalated into a drive-by shooting during an evening football game between Mariner and cross-district rival Kamiak.