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List of school districts in Oregon

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This is a list of public school districts in Oregon, a U.S. state. The Oregon Department of Education has authority over public schools. Oregon has 197 public school districts.

All school districts are independent governments as classified by the U.S. Census Bureau. No school systems in Oregon are dependent on other layers of government.[1]

History

The first school district to be established in Oregon was the Brogan School District.[2]

In previous eras, the state had around 2,000 school districts.[3] This figure was down to circa 850 in the 1950s, then 424 in 1964,[4] then 365 in 1969.[3] In 1979-1980 the school districts declined to 312 from 330 due to a merger of a high school district and 17 elementary school districts.[5]

In 1988 there were 303 school districts in the state.[6]

In 1992 the school district count was 285. That year, there was an Oregon law that mandated the consolidation of elementary-only and high school-only districts by 1996. Bill Graves of The Oregonian stated that if the law were followed, that by that year the district count would be below 180.[2]

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Types of districts

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Oregon's elementary and secondary school districts include unified, component elementary, union high and unified elementary districts. Unified districts serve students from kindergarten to twelfth grade, union high school districts serve students in seventh or ninth grades through twelfth grade who reside within the district's boundaries and have attended component elementary districts within the district's boundaries. Component elementary districts are financially responsible for educating students from kindergarten through the sixth or eighth grades. A component district is wholly within a single union high school district. Elementary, or unified elementary, districts operate the same programs as component districts but are also financially responsible for providing for their students' high school education. These districts do this through tuition arrangements with districts that have seventh or ninth through twelfth-grade programs.

There is one union high school district, Harney County Union High School District, that operates a single school: Crane Union High School. The eight component elementary school districts are Crane, Diamond, Double O, Drewsey, Frenchglen, Pine Creek, Suntex and South Harney. The unified elementary districts include Adel, Annex, Arock, Ashwood, Black Butte, Juntura, McDermitt, Pinehurst, Plush and Troy.[7]

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  • Falls City School District
  • Fern Ridge School District, Elmira
  • Forest Grove School District
  • Fossil School District
  • Frenchglen School District

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  • Imbler School District
  • Ione School District

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  • Jefferson County School District, Madras
  • Jewell School District
  • John Day School District (Grant County School District), Canyon City
  • Jordan Valley School District
  • Joseph School District
  • Junction City School District
  • Juntura School District

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Education service districts

Oregon has 19 education service districts.

  • Clackamas Education Service District
  • Columbia Gorge Education Service District
  • Douglas Education Service District
  • Grant County Education Service District
  • Harney Education Service District
  • High Desert Education Service District
  • InterMountain Education Service District
  • Jefferson County Education Service District
  • Lake Education Service District
  • Lane Education Service District
  • Linn Benton Lincoln Education Service District
  • Malheur Education Service District
  • Multnomah Education Service District
  • North Central Education Service District
  • Northwest Regional Education Service District
  • Region 18 - Wallowa Education Service District
  • South Coast Education Service District
  • Southern Oregon Education Service District
  • Willamette Education Service District

Former school districts

  • Lawen School District - In 1988 it merged into the Crane school district (the elementary school had closed in 1984 and never reopened).[9]
  • Burns Union High School District - Merged into Harney district 3 in 1989.[10]
  • Burns Elementary School District - Merged into Harney district 3 in 1989.[10]
  • Hines Elementary School District - Merged into Harney district 3 in 1989.[10]
  • Brogan School District - Merged into the Vale school district as per an unofficial 1992 vote count.[2]
  • Willowcreek School District - Merged into the Vale school district as per an unofficial 1992 vote count.[2]
  • Vale Elementary School District - Merged into the Vale school district as per an unofficial 1992 vote count.[2]
  • Vale Union High School District - Merged into the Vale school district as per an unofficial 1992 vote count.[2]
  • Brothers School District - Merged into the Crook County district effective 2006.[11]

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