This is alist of publicschool districts inOregon, aU.S. state. TheOregon Department of Education has authority overpublic schools. Oregon has 197 publicschool districts.
All school districts are independent governments as classified by theU.S. Census Bureau. No school systems in Oregon are dependent on other layers of government.[1]
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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 ofThe Oregonian stated that if the law were followed, that by that year the district count would be below 180.[2]
Oregon's elementary and secondary school districts include unified,component elementary, union high and unified elementary districts. Unified districts serve students fromkindergarten totwelfth grade,union high school districts serve students inseventh orninth 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 thesixth oreighth 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]
Oregon has 19education service districts.
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