Beaverton School District

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The Beaverton School District (BSD 48J) is a school district in and around Beaverton, Oregon, United States. It serves students throughout Beaverton, Hillsboro, Aloha, and unincorporated neighborhoods of Portland, Oregon. The Beaverton Elementary School District 48 was established in 1876, with other elementary districts later merged into the district.<ref name=districts>Template:Cite news</ref> The elementary district was later merged with the high school district (10J) to create a unified school district.<ref name=districts/> It is the third-largest school district<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> in the state, with an enrollment of 39,180 students as of 2022. For the 2022–23 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.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

History

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 10 to create one unified school district.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 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.<ref name=cphistory>Template:Cite web</ref>

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.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

From March 2020 to March 2021, all students were instructed remotely either through online learning or through comprehensive distance learning. Return to in-person instruction began 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 <ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Boundary

The district's 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.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

The district extends into Multnomah County, where it includes a small portion of Portland.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Schools

Elementary schools

Bonny Slope
Cedar Mill
Jacob Wismer
Findley
Oak Hills
Rock Creek
Terra Linda
West Tualatin View
School Enrollment*<ref name=":0">Template:Cite web</ref> Mascot Principal Feeder to<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Aloha–Huber Park** 992 Cougar Sarita Amaya Mountain View
Barnes 478 Bobcat Edgar Solares Meadow Park
Beaver Acres 727 Beaver Angela Tran Meadow Park
Bethany 429 Bobcat Toni Rosenquist Five Oaks
Bonny Slope 683 Bobcat Cary Meier Tumwater
Cedar Mill 356 Lumberjack Amy Chamberlain Tumwater
Chehalem 372 Mustang Melissa Holz Cedar Park, Mountain View
Cooper Mountain 392 Cougar Ali Montelongo Highland Park, Mountain View
Elmonica 418 Engineer Kalay McNamee Five Oaks, Meadow Park
Errol Hassell 355 Hornet Paul Marietta Mountain View
Findley 527 Dragon Sherry Marsh Tumwater
Fir Grove 362 Furry Grover Erin Miles Highland Park
Greenway 273 Cougar Jennifer Whitten Conestoga
Hazeldale 412 Hawk Bao Vang Highland Park, Mountain View
Hiteon 477 Hawk Janet Maza Conestoga
Jacob Wismer 592 Eagles Laurie Huntwork Stoller
Kinnaman 460 Coyote Ashlee Hudson Mountain View
McKay 249 Wolf Erin Kollings Conestoga, Whitford
McKinley 628 Mountain Lion Brian Curl Five Oaks, Meadow Park
Montclair 283 Red-Tailed Hawk Angee Silliman Whitford
Nancy Ryles 507 Crocodile Monica Arbow Conestoga, Highland Park
Oak Hills 485 Otter Thao Do Gwilliam Five Oaks, Tumwater
Raleigh Hills** 307 Panther Jennifer DeMartino Whitford
Raleigh Park 299 Tiger Aki Mori Whitford
Ridgewood 371 Roadrunner Meghan Warren Cedar Park
Rock Creek 431 Rocket Tiffany Wiencken Five Oaks
Sato 762 Raccoon Annie Pleau Stoller
Scholls Heights 619 Knight Tracy Bariao-Arce Conestoga
Sexton Mountain 440 Eagle Cherie Reese Highland Park
Springville** 767 Wolf Christy Batsell Stoller
Terra Linda 258 Tiger Wendy Bernard Tumwater
Vose 694 Owl Monique Singleton Whitford
West Tualatin View 305 All-Star Scarlet Valentine Cedar Park
William Walker 503 Wildcat Derek Johnston Cedar Park

*Enrollment numbers are for 2022–23 school year.

**Springville and Raleigh Hills were previously K–8 schools, with a choice for students in grades 6–8 to remain but were transitioned to K–5 in the 2023–24 school year. Aloha–Huber Park remains a K-8 for dual language immersion students.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Middle schools

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 district's 6-3-3 plan established in the 1960s.

Name Enrollment*<ref name=":0" /> Mascot Principal Feeder to<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Cedar Park 454 Timberwolf Shannon Anderson Beaverton High School
Conestoga 769 Cougar Jared Freeman Mountainside, Southridge
Five Oaks 749 Falcon Kelly Laverne Westview High School
Highland Park 635 Raider Curtis Semana Mountainside, Southridge
Meadow Park 681 Eagle Johanna Castillo Aloha, Beaverton, Sunset
Mountain View 867 Mountaineer Wendy Rider Aloha, Mountainside
Stoller 902 Jaguar Grant Piros Sunset, Westview
Tumwater 979 Rapids Matthew Smith Sunset High School
Whitford 789 Wildcat Zan Hess Beaverton, Southridge

*Enrollment numbers are for 2022-2023 school year.

High schools

High schools in Beaverton are part of the 6A-2 Metro League for interscholastic athletics and activities.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> The newest, Mountainside High School, opened in September 2017 for freshmen and sophomores.<ref name="oreg-2017sep">Template:Cite news</ref> As a result, the district began planning to alter its high school boundaries.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> The boundary changes were approved in June 2017 and went into effect at the beginning of the 2017–18 school year.<ref name="boundary-2017">Template:Cite web</ref>

Image School Enrollment*<ref name=":0" /> Mascot Principal Feeder schools<ref name="bsd-feeder-2017">Template:Cite web</ref>
Aloha High School 1,609 Warrior Matt Casteel Meadow Park Middle School

Mountain View Middle School

Beaverton High School 1,430 Beaver Andrew Kearl Cedar Park Middle School

Meadow Park Middle School

Whitford Middle School

Mountainside High School 1,715 Maverick Natalie Labossiere<ref name="oreg-2024aug">Template:Cite news </ref> Conestoga Middle School

Highland Park Middle School

Mountain View Middle School

Southridge High School 1,460 Skyhawk David Nieslanik Conestoga Middle School

Highland Park Middle School

Whitford Middle School

Sunset High School 1,903 Apollo Elisa Schorr Meadow Park Middle School

Stoller Middle School

Tumwater Middle School

Westview High School 2,353 Wildcat Matt Pedersen Five Oaks Middle School

Stoller Middle School

*Enrollment numbers are for 2022–23 school year.

Option schools

ACMA
HS2
Merlo Station

Arts & Communication Magnet Academy (ACMA)

  • Focuses on the arts for 6th through 12th grade students. Principal: Bjorn Paige.

Beaverton Academy of Science and Engineering (BASE)

International School of Beaverton (ISB)

Merlo Station High School (MSHS)

  • Houses Community School and Merlo Station Night School. Principal: Rachel Sip.

Rachel Carson Environmental Middle School (RCEMS)

  • Located at Cedar Park Middle School, it focuses on environmental science for 6th through 8th grade students. Principal: Shirley Brock.

Summa

  • Programs at Meadow Park, Stoller, Tumwater, and Whitford middle schools for talented and gifted students.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 681 students were enrolled in Summa classes at five middle schools for the 2022–23 school year.<ref name=":0" />
  • In November 2014 a plan to move Summa students who attend Stoller Middle School to the newly constructed Tumwater middle school as a solution to overcrowding was proposed, but was delayed in November 2015 due to opposition from parents and school administration.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Closed schools

The former Cedar Hills Elementary School building, now repurposed as the Cedar Hills Recreation Center.
The Home Depot store at the former location of Sunset Valley Elementary School.

Cedar Hills Elementary School

  • Built in the early 1950s;<ref name="oreg-1950may7">"Cedar Hills Starts Work On New Grade School" (May 7, 1950). The Sunday Oregonian, Section 1, p. 9.</ref> closed in 1983.<ref name="oreg-1983may17">Template:Cite news</ref> The building was repurposed as the Cedar Hills Recreation Center of the Tualatin Hills Park & Recreation District (THPRD), initially leased from BSD, but sold to THPRD circa late 1986.<ref name="oreg-1986nov18">Template:Cite news</ref>

Garden Home Elementary School

  • Closed in 1982 and leased to THPRD, who put it to use as the Garden Home Community Center starting later the same year.<ref name="leased schoolhouse">Template:Cite news</ref> The building was later sold to THPRD.<ref name="oreg-1986nov18" />

Merle Davies Elementary School (named Beaverton Grade School until 1949)

  • Opened in 1938; closed in 1983.<ref name="oreg-1983may17" /> Upon closure, the building became an annex to Beaverton High School (located adjacent) until 2024, when the building was demolished to make room for construction of a new building for the high school.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Sunset Valley Elementary School

C. E. Mason Elementary School

Administration

School board

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."<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> The board members for the 2022–23 school year are Susan Greenberg, Sunita Garg, Eric Simpson, Vice Chair Karen Pérez, Ugonna Enyinnaya, Becky Tymchuk and Chair Tom Colett.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Superintendent

The current Beaverton School District superintendent is Dr. Gustavo Balderas, who has served since July 1, 2022.

Demographics

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Older Beaverton School District logo, used before 2011
2011–2014 version of current logo

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.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> By 2010, the number of homeless students had grown to 1,580, the highest of any school district in the state.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Teacher/student ratios

The following are the district's teacher/student staffing ratios (K–5 numbers have been updated for the 2019–20 school year):Template:Update after

  • Kindergarten – 1:26.95
  • Grades 1–5 – 1:30.48
  • Grades 6–8 – 1:35.50
  • Grades 9–12 – 1:26.4

Student/staff profiles

All information below is as of October 1, 2014.

  • Ethnicity:
  • Number of primary languages spoken in students' homes: 94
  • Percentage of students qualifying for free and reduced lunch: 36.6%
  • Percentage of students qualifying for special education services: 12.1%
  • Percentage of Talented and Gifted students: 13.5%
  • Percentage of ESL students: 13.3%
  • Percentage of male students: 51%
  • Percentage of female students: 49%
  • High school dropout rate: 2.7% as of 2013–14, lower than Oregon's average of 3.9%
  • Graduation rate: 79.7%, higher than Oregon's average of 72%
  • Number of staff:
    • Teachers: 2,330
    • Classified employees: 1,710
    • School administration: 92
    • District administration: 30
    • Total number: 4,162
  • Teachers with a master's degree or higher: 87%
  • Average years teaching experience: 14.6
  • Salary range: $39,100 - $80,253

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See also

References

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