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Portland Area Public School Web Sites:

Many schools have their own Web sites.  Within such sites, there's often information about individual schools, including service boundaries, after-school activities, class sizes, program strengths, mission statements and even examples of student work.

Beaverton School District Beaverton
Canby School District Canby
Centennial School District Gresham
David Douglas School District Portland
Gresham-Barlow School District Gresham
Hillsboro School District 1J  Hillsboro
Lake Oswego School District Lake Oswego
North Clackamas Schools  Milwaukie
Oregon City School District Oregon City
Oregon Trail School District Sandy
Parkrose School District Parkrose
Portland Public Schools Portland
Reynolds School District Troutdale
Riverdale School District Portland
Sherwood School District Sherwood
Tigard-Tualatin School District Tigard
West-Linn-Wilsonville West Linn and Wilsonville



School Area Maps and Boundaries:

Beaverton School District Beaverton
Gresham-Barlow School District Gresham
Hillsboro School District 1J Hillsboro
North Clackamas Schools  Milwaukie
Portland Public Schools Portland
Reynolds School District Troutdale



Private Schools:

Arbor School of Arts and Sciences Non-profit elementary school in Tualatin. 

Archbishop Howard

The Catlin Gabel School.  It enrolls preschool, elementary, middle and high school students. They have a strong extra curricular activities program ranging from theatre to athletics.  Over 60% of the students are on interscholastic sports teams according to biology/chemistry teacher Paul Dickinson.

Crossroads Christian School 

La Salle College Preparatory

Montessori Schools  Sixteen Montessori schools are in the area.

Mt. Hood Academy

Northwest Academy  Serves grades 6 through 12 and located in northwest Portland.

Oregon Episcopal School (OES) offers a preK-12 program with a strong academic as well as extra curricular activities. The boarding program at OES serves students in Grades 9-12. Boarders comprise nearly one-quarter of the Upper School student body, and about one-half of our boarders are international students.

Pacific Northwest Academy  PNA is a K-5 school that is located in Wilsonville, and serves families that live in the south and southwest suburban communities.

Portland Family Freeschool  For children ages 3-7 - located in NE Portland.

Portland Friends School  Located at 7426 SW 53rd Avenue, Portland, Oregon. 97219-1331 Phone: (503) 245-8164

Portland Jewish Academy  PJA is a community Jewish day school that serves children from preschool through eighth grade. The Portland Jewish Academy was accepted as an International Baccalaureate World School candidate in 2008.

Portland Lutheran School

Touchstone Elementary>  Lake Oswego - part of Noble Learning Community.

Tucker-Maxon Oral School  Tucker-Maxon is a school for both deaf and hearing children talking, learning, and achieving excellence together.  Hearing children benefit from their low student-teacher ratios (8:1) and an environment where individual attention is the norm.

Veritas School  Located in Newberg, Veritas offers a K-12 classical and Christ-centered education. Students study Latin starting in 3rd grade, Logic in 8th grade, and Rhetoric in high school.

Woodmont School for Dyslexics - 8660 SE Foster Road, Portland, OR 97226.  Telephone: (503) 771-0002

Catholic High Schools:

Jesuit High School is a Catholic, college-preparatory school in the Jesuit tradition.  Jesuit became coeducational in the fall of 1993 and has now grown to a student body of more than 1,000 young men and women.  Jesuit High School has a strong sports program and the Crusaders are a frequent State Tournament entry.

Central Catholic is located on the eastside and the school educates students that come from diverse economic, cultural, religious, racial and ethnic backgrounds. 

St. Mary Academy  Located in downtown Portland, St. Mary's Academy provides a college preparatory curriculum and a complementary and enriching co-curricular program to a diverse group of young women. This creates an environment for each young woman to develop academically, spiritually, aesthetically, athletically, and socially.  Of the Class of 2003, 100 percent were accepted to four-year colleges or universities to continue their education. Of the 125 accomplished young women comprising this most recent class, five are National Merit Scholarship finalists, one is a National Achievement Scholarship finalist, six are National Merit Commended Students, one is a National Hispanic Recognition Program Scholar, 43 are Presidential Award winners and 38 are Scholar Athletes.

Other Private Schools:

Ecce Veritas  This small, coed private school (grades 7-12) in inner Northeast Portland gives students a classical education in the Catholic tradition. Ecce Veritas - which means "behold the truth" in Latin - doesn't technically call itself a Catholic school because it's not directly funded by the archdiocese, but by private donors. The annual tuition in 2008 was $2,500 with the promise that no student will be turned away based on financial need. Ecce Veritas, along with Portland's Grant High School, is the only Portland public school with a Latin program.

Mt. Hood Academy  Mt. Hood Academy is a fully accredited private high school for students pursuing a rigorous academic program while developing their skills as alpine ski racers. The students, from throughout the Western United States, live, study and train at the Academy from early November to April while on leave from their regular high schools.

Waldorf Schools 

To learn more about Waldorf Education, visit the Web site of Bob and Nancy.  Waldorf Education now has four schools in the Portland area: Cedarwood School (Pre-K/K-5) in Southwest Portland, Portland Waldorf (Pre-K/K-12) in Milwaukie (SE Portland area), Shining Star School (infant to age 14) a co-op family school in NE Portland, and Swallowtail School (Pre-K/K-8) in Hillsboro.>

This Web site, Department of Catholic Schools - Archdiocese of Portland, will link you to a list of all the catholic schools in Oregon.  There are over 20 catholic elementary schools in the Portland area plus five high schools.

Language Schools:

The French American International School is comprised of the French American School, a French immersion program for grades preschool through 5th, and the Gilkey International Middle School. The Gilkey International Middle School offers a French immersion program and well as an "international" program, where classes are taught in English and students are required to study one of the following three languages: French, German, or Spanish. 

Another French school located at John's Landings is the Portland French School - L'Ecole Française de Portland, founded in 1989, is recognized by the Ministry of Education of the Republic of France.  L'Ecole Française offers classes for  preschool through the fifth grade.

German-American School also offers classes through the fifth grade. Two schools offering Saturday classes are the Springleaf Chinese School and the Portland Japanese School at Park Plaza West, #600 10700 SW Beaverton-Hillsdale Hwy. Portland, OR 97005.  Telephone: (503) 644-9579.

Private Language Schools:

Chiquitos School  The Chiquitos School is located in the Cedar Hills area of Portland. They are a Spanish Immersion school for students up to the third grade.

French American International School - French language elementary and middle school.

The Gilkey Middle School - French language middle school.

The International School of Portland - Spanish, Chinese and Japanese elementary school. They also have language immersion summer camps in those languages.

Portland French School - French language elementary school.

German-American School - German language elementary school.



Enrichment and  Tutoring: 

Saturday Academy's (SA) innovative programs are open to all students in grades 4 through 12.  SA offers enrichment programs in locations through out the Portland metro area.

SA emphasizes math, science, engineering, technology, and healthcare because these disciplines are integral to the future children will live and work in.

Mathnasium is a learning center where kids go after school to boost their math skills.  The program is for kids in grades 2 through 12. Students attend once or twice a week, for about an hour.  Like a gym or health club, members pay a low monthly fee and can drop-in anytime.  Mathnasium's goal is to significantly increase your child's math skills, understanding of math concepts, and overall school performance, while building confidence and forging a positive attitude toward the subject.

Home Schooling in Oregon:

Between 12,000 and 13,000 students are home-schooled in Oregon , according to the Oregon Department of Education.  The Web has proved to be a powerful tool for home-schooling parents, giving them access to math, science, and other lesson plans and offering their children a world of research opportunities.  Most of all, it has brought home-schoolers together as never before, creating an electronic bulleting board to list home-school events, ask questions and exchange ideas.>

Most home-schoolers in Oregon use the discussion group calledORSig and Portlanders use the >Greater Portland Homeschoolers site as well asOHEN (Oregon Home Education Network).