Beaverton School District | |
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Location | |
United States | |
District information | |
Grades | K–12 |
Established | 1876 |
Superintendent | Dr. Gustavo Balderas [1] |
Budget | $622,821,541(2022–2023) [2] |
Students and staff | |
Students | 39,180 (2011-22) [3] [4] |
Teachers | 2,512 |
Staff | 4,458 [5] |
Other information | |
Website | www |
The Beaverton School District is a school district in and around Beaverton, Oregon, United States. It serves students throughout Beaverton, Hillsboro, Aloha, and unincorporated neighborhoods of Portland, OR. The Beaverton Elementary School District 48 was established in 1876, with other elementary districts later merged into the district. [6] The elementary district was later merged with the high school district (10J) to create a unified school district. [6] It is the third-largest school district [7] in the state, with an enrollment of 39,180 students as of 2022. For the 2022–2023 school year, the district had a total budget of $622.8 million.
The district employs over 2,100 teachers at its 34 elementary, nine middle, and six high schools as well as several option schools. Mountainside High School, the district's sixth high school, opened in 2017. Tumwater Middle School (previously Timberland), the district's ninth middle school, opened in the fall of 2021. [8] [9]
District 48 was established in 1876 as the "Beaverton Elementary School District", serving grades 1–8. Over the years it merged with other elementary districts and finally, in July 1960, merged with the Beaverton High School District to create one unified school district. [10] The district has followed the trends throughout the US, establishing schools for 7th–9th grades in the mid-1960s (to make a 6-3-3 system) and then in 1994 moving 6th grade into middle school and 9th grade back into high school to form the current 5-3-4 configuration. [11]
The Beaverton School District's school-age population grew by 44% in the 1990s, but by only 14% in the 2000s. The median age in the district increased from 33.3 in 2000 to 35.3 in 2010. The total population of the area under the district's jurisdiction was 253,198 as of the 2010 census. [12]
From March 2020 - March 2021, all students were instructed remotely either through online learning or through comprehensive distance learning. Return to in-person instruction is scheduled to be begin in April, 2021 with a hybrid model. About half of the district's students chose in-person hybrid instruction with the rest choosing to continue comprehensive distance learning [13]
Its service area in Washington County includes: Almost all of Beaverton, portions of Hillsboro and Tigard, all of the census-designated places of Cedar Hills, Garden Home–Whitford, Marlene Village, and Oak Hills, and portions of the census-designated places of Aloha, Bethany, Cedar Mill, Metzger, Raleigh Hills, Rockcreek, and West Slope. [14]
The district extends into Multnomah County, where it includes a small portion of Portland. [15]
School | Mascot | Principal |
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Aloha Huber Park (K-8) | Cougar | Sarita Amaya |
Barnes | Bobcat | Edgar Solares |
Beaver Acres | Beaver | Angela Tran |
Bethany | Bobcat | Toni Rosenquist |
Bonny Slope | Bobcat | Cary Meier |
Cedar Mill | Lumberjack | Amy Chamberlain |
Chehalem | Mustang | Melissa Holz |
Cooper Mountain | Cougar | Ali Montelongo |
Elmonica | Engineer | Kalay McNamee |
Errol Hassell | Hornet | Paul Marietta |
Findley | Dragon | Sherry Marsh |
Fir Grove | Furry Grover | Erin Miles |
Greenway | Cougar | Jennifer Whitten |
Hazeldale | Hawk | Bao Vang |
Hiteon | Hawk | Janet Maza |
Jacob Wismer | Eagles | Laurie Huntwork |
Kinnaman | Coyote | Ashlee Hudson |
McKay | Wolf | Erin Kollings |
McKinley | Mountain Lion | Brian Curl |
Montclair | Red-Tailed Hawk | Angee Sillian |
Nancy Ryles | Crocodile | Monica Arbow |
Oak Hills | Otter | Thao Do Gwilliam |
Raleigh Hills (K-8) | Panther | Jennifer DeMartino |
Raleigh Park | Tiger | Aki Mori |
Ridgewood | Roadrunner | Meghan Warren |
Rock Creek | Rocket | Tiffany Wiencken |
Sato | Raccoon | Annie Pleau |
Scholls Heights | Knight | Tracy Bariao-Arce |
Sexton Mountain | Eagle | Cherie Reese |
Springville (K-8) | Wolf | Robin Kobrowski |
Terra Linda | Tiger | Christy Batsell |
Vose | Owl | Monique Singleton |
West Tualatin View | All-Star | Scarlet Valentine |
William Walker | Wildcat | Derek Johnston |
The Beaverton School District operates nine middle schools housing 6th, 7th, and 8th grades. Prior to the 1994–95 school year they housed students in grades 7–9, as a part of the districts 6-3-3 plan established in the 1960s.
Cedar Park, located on Park Way, was built in 1965 as the district's fourth middle school. It was first opened during the 1965–66 school year for seventh graders only, with an enrollment of 343; however, construction was not complete until 1966. It opened for all grades beginning with the 1966 school year. [11] The school's mascot is the Timberwolf, and its current principal is Dr. Shannon Anderson. Enrollment for the 2014 school year was 1,043, up from 968 the previous year. Its enrollment in 2018-19 was 1,001. [16] The school received air conditioning for the whole building over the summer of 2017, and its lockers were painted and its fence was replaced over the summer of 2018. This school offers electives such as Drama (also called Theater), Band, Choir, Physical Education, and Spanish. It used to offer a more advanced Spanish class for native speakers as well as a class called Design, which was removed starting in the 2017–18 school year.[ citation needed ] [11] [17] [18] Cedar Park hosts Rachel Carson Environmental Middle School, which focuses on environmental science.
Conestoga is located on Conestoga Drive. Its mascot is the Cougar, and its principal is Zan Hess. Its 2018-19 enrollment was 997, up from 904 in 2013. [19] [17] [20] [21]
Five Oaks' mascot is the Falcon, and its principal is Kelly Laverne. 2018-19 enrollment was 1,001, down from 1,055 in 2013. [22] [17]
Highland Park was opened in 1965 to 1,106 students, after several failed bonds in the previous years. [23] Its mascot is the Raider, and its principal is Curtis Semana. 2018-19 enrollment was 855, up from 820 in 2013. [24] [17]
Meadow Park's mascot is the Eagle, and its principal is Jared Freeman. 2018-19 enrollment was 806, up from 768 in 2013. [25] [17] The building consists of three main halls and two corridors. Facilities also include three gyms, namely the main gym, upper gym, and west gym.
Mountain View's mascot is the Mountaineer, and its principal is Wendy Rider. 2018-19 enrollment was 895, up from 856 in 2013. [26] [17]
Stoller is located on Laidlaw Road. Its mascot is the Jaguar, and its principal is Kelly Angelina. 2018-19 enrollment was 1,554, up from 1,341 in 2013. It is the largest middle school in the school district, and in the state of Oregon. [27] [17]
On November 30, 2018, a threat of violence was made, prompting law enforcement and increased police in the school. The threat was heavily rumored to be a bot that sent out similar threats across the country on the same day. Many other threats were also made in the 2018–19 school year causing panic in many cases. [28] Several threats since then have prompted tighter security measures around the school.
Tumwater is the district's newest middle school is located on NW 118th, and the principal is Matthew Smith. Tumwater means 'waterfall' in the Chinook Wawa language and opened in the fall of 2021. Their mascot is the Rapids.
This is the district's online school, the principal is Paul Ottum.
Whitford is in Garden Home–Whitford. Garden Home was an established community when the Oregon Electric Railway was built at the beginning of the 20th century, which named a depot on the line for the community. [29] Whitford was a station on the same line, located at the present-day intersection of Allen Road and Scholls Ferry Road (Oregon Route 210); the name was created by combining the names of W. A. White and A.C. Bedford, New York investors who were directors of the railway. Whitford Station closed when the railway stopped running around 1920, but the name stuck. The school itself opened in 1963 to grades 7 and 8. [30] Whitford also offers the summa program for those who score highly on specific tests. Whitford's mascot is Formally the Coachmen, Up until a school vote in 2023. The one chosen during the vote is The Wildcats, and its principal is Zan Hess. 2014 enrollment was 681, up from 680 in 2013. [17]
High schools in Beaverton are part of the Metro League for interscholastic athletics and activities. [31] The newest, Mountainside High School, opened in September 2017 for freshmen and sophomores. [32] As a result, the district began planning to alter its high school boundaries. [33] The boundary changes were approved in June 2017 and went into effect at the beginning of the 2017–2018 school year. [34]
Image | School | Mascot | Principal | Feeder middle schools [35] |
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Aloha | Warrior | Matt Casteel | Meadow Park, Mountain View | |
Beaverton | Beaver | Andrew Kearl | Cedar Park, Meadow Park, Whitford | |
Mountainside | Maverick | Todd Corsetti [32] | Conestoga, Highland Park, Mountain View | |
Southridge | Skyhawk | David Nieslanik | Conestoga, Highland Park, Whitford | |
Sunset | Apollo | Elisa Schorr | Meadow Park, Stoller, Tumwater | |
Westview | Wildcat | Matt Pedersen | Five Oaks, Stoller |
According to the Beaverton School District's website, the school board is "responsible for providing an education program for students living within the District boundaries." [49] The board members for the 2022–2023 school year are Susan Greenberg, Sunita Garg, Eric Simpson, Vice Chair Karen Pérez, Ugonna Enyinnaya, Becky Tymchuk and Chair Tom Colett. [50]
The current Beaverton School District superintendent is Dr. Gustavo Balderas, who has served since July 1, 2022.
In the 2009 school year, the district had 1114 students classified as homeless by the state's Department of Education, or 3.0% of students in the district. [51] By 2010, the number of homeless students had grown to 1,580, the highest of any school district in the state. [52]
The following are the district's teacher/student staffing ratios (K-5 numbers have been updated for the 2019–2020 school year):[ needs update ]
All information below is as of October 1, 2014.
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(help)Last September, the Oregon Department of Education released the state's homeless student count and Beaverton School District was at the top of that list with 1,580 students, followed by Medford and Portland districts.