:Beaverton School District

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.{{cite web|url=https://www.beaverton.k12.or.us/about|title=About Us: Facts and History|access-date=2015-03-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150404125726/https://www.beaverton.k12.or.us/about|archive-date=2015-04-04|url-status=dead}} 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.{{cite web|url=https://www.beaverton.k12.or.us/schools/cedar-park/school/Documents/Cedar%20Park%20History.pdf|title=Cedar Park History|access-date=2015-09-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304120708/https://www.beaverton.k12.or.us/schools/cedar-park/school/Documents/Cedar%20Park%20History.pdf|archive-date=2016-03-04|url-status=dead}}

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.{{cite web|url=http://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1064&context=enrollmentforecasts&sei-redir=1&referer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Dbeaverton%2Bschool%2Bdistrict%2Bhistory%26client%3Dsafari%26rls%3Den%26prmd%3Divns%26ei%3D2Or0VajxEoq5ggSewJ-YCQ%26start%3D10%26sa%3DN#search=%22beaverton%20school%20district%20history%22|title= BSD Enrollment Forecast|publisher=Portland State University}}

From March 2020 - 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 {{cite web|url=https://www.beaverton.k12.or.us/departments/public-safety/emergency-preparedness/coronavirus/return-to-in-person-instruction|title=Return to in-person instruction|access-date=18 March 2021}}

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.{{cite web|url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/PL20/st41_or/schooldistrict_maps/c41067_washington/DC20SD_C41067.pdf|title=2020 CENSUS - SCHOOL DISTRICT REFERENCE MAP: Washington County, OR|publisher=U.S. Census Bureau|accessdate=2023-05-19}}

The district extends into Multnomah County, where it includes a small portion of Portland.{{cite web|url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/PL20/st41_or/schooldistrict_maps/c41051_multnomah/DC20SD_C41051.pdf|title=2020 CENSUS - SCHOOL DISTRICT REFERENCE MAP: Multnomah County, OR|publisher=U.S. Census Bureau|page=1 (PDF p. 2/3)|accessdate=2023-05-19}}

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*Enrollment numbers are for 2022-2023 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 2023-2024 school year. Aloha-Huber Park remains a K-8 for dual language immersion students.{{Cite web |title=Outraged Beaverton Parents Question District's 'Final' Decision To Close Middle Grade Program |url=https://www.opb.org/news/article/beaverton-middle-school-closure-announcement-raleigh-hills-springville/ |access-date=2024-10-24 |website=opb |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Segar |first=Sally |date=2022-04-20 |title=Next year is the last for two middle school sites in Beaverton |url=https://www.beavertonvalleytimes.com/news/next-year-is-the-last-for-two-middle-school-sites-in-beaverton/article_75022551-dfa6-5ee6-b61b-cf7a06b0cb92.html |access-date=2024-10-24 |website=BeavertonValleyTimes.com |language=en}}

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.

*Enrollment numbers are for 2022-2023 school year.

High schools in Beaverton are part of the 6A-2 Metro League for interscholastic athletics and activities.{{cite web|url=http://www.metroleague.org/contact.php|title=Metro League: Schools & Sites}} The newest, Mountainside High School, opened in September 2017 for freshmen and sophomores.{{cite news|last1=Nakamura|first1=Beth|last2=Hammond|first2=Betsy|title=Beaverton's new $185 million high school, Mountainside, opens|newspaper=The Oregonian|date=September 6, 2017|page=A8|orig-year=published online Sep. 5|url=http://www.oregonlive.com/education/index.ssf/2017/09/beavertons_new_185_million_hig.html|access-date=September 8, 2017}} As a result, the district began planning to alter its high school boundaries.{{cite web |url= http://koin.com/2015/12/02/beaverton-sd-boundary-changes-upsetting-parents/ |title= Beaverton SD boundary changes upsetting parents |author= Balick, Lisa |publisher= KOIN 6 News |date= December 2, 2015 |access-date= December 3, 2015}} The boundary changes were approved in June 2017 and went into effect at the beginning of the 2017–2018 school year.{{cite web|title=Boundary Information|publisher=Beaverton School District|date=2017|url=https://www.beaverton.k12.or.us/depts/facilities/boundary/Pages/default.aspx|access-date=September 8, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170908111312/https://www.beaverton.k12.or.us/depts/facilities/boundary/Pages/default.aspx|archive-date=September 8, 2017|url-status=dead}}

*Enrollment numbers are for 2022-2023 school year.

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

• A merger of the former schools Beaverton Health & Science School and School of Science and Technology. Principal: Diane Fitzpatrick.{{Cite web |title=Principal's Message - Beaverton Academy of Science and Engineering |url=https://base.beaverton.k12.or.us/about-us/principals-message |access-date=2024-01-12 |website=base.beaverton.k12.or.us |language=en-US}}

• Offers the International Baccalaureate program for 6th through 12th grade students. Principal: Andrew Gillford.

• Houses Community School, Merlo Station Night School, and School of Science and Technology. Principal: Rachel Sip.

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

• Programs at Meadow Park, Stoller, Tumwater, and Whitford middle schools for talented and gifted students.{{cite web |author=Owen, Wendy |date=25 September 2014 |title=Beaverton's Summa program for highly gifted students continues to grow |url=http://www.oregonlive.com/beaverton/index.ssf/2014/09/beavertons_summa_program_for_h.html |publisher=OregonLive}} 681 students were enrolled in Summa classes at five middle schools for the 2022–2023 school year.
• 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.{{cite web |author=Owen, Wendy |date=November 18, 2014 |title=Stoller/Springville crowding solutions top Beaverton School Board meeting |url=http://www.oregonlive.com/beaverton/index.ssf/2014/11/stollerspringville_crowding_so.html |access-date=December 3, 2015 |publisher=OregonLive}}{{cite web |author=Owen, Wendy |date=November 23, 2015 |title=School gives up computer labs to keep gifted students |url=http://www.oregonlive.com/beaverton/index.ssf/2015/11/school_gives_up_computer_labs.html |access-date=December 3, 2015 |publisher=OregonLive}}

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• Built in the early 1950s;"Cedar Hills Starts Work On New Grade School" (May 7, 1950). The Sunday Oregonian, Section 1, p. 9. closed in 1983.{{cite news |last=Thompson |first=Carla |date=May 17, 1983 |title=Two Beaverton grade schools to close in fall |newspaper=The Oregonian |page=MW1}} 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.{{cite news |last=Ostergren |first=Jack |date=November 18, 1986 |title=District 48 OKs sale of schools |newspaper=The Oregonian |page=B6 |edition=West Metro}}

• Closed in 1982 and leased to THPRD, who put it to use as the Garden Home Community Center starting later the same year.{{cite news |last=Graydon |first=Charlotte |date=May 6, 1983 |title=Leased schoolhouse teeming with activity |newspaper=The Oregonian |page=D1 |edition=West Metro}} The building was later sold to THPRD.

• Opened in 1938; closed in 1983. 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.{{Cite web |last=Bishop |first=Lauren |date=2024-02-19 |title=Demolition continues on Merle Davies Building ahead of new Beaverton High construction |url=https://www.beavertonvalleytimes.com/news/demolition-continues-on-merle-davies-building-ahead-of-new-beaverton-high-construction/article_077eb882-cf52-11ee-aab4-9f2ad515ec65.html |access-date=2025-03-01 |website=BeavertonValleyTimes.com |language=en}}

• Opened in 1948, and closed in 1980.{{cite book |last1=Varner |first1=Gerald H. |title=School Days: A History of Public Schools In and Around Beaverton, Oregon, 1856–2000 |date=2000 |publisher= |isbn=0-9642353-3-1 |pages=21–22, 30–33}} The building and property were purchased in 1979 by Electro Scientific Industries,{{cite news |last=Leeson |first=Jeanne |date=April 8, 1980 |title=Worthwhile experience: Children, industry share school rooms |newspaper=The Oregonian |page=W1 |edition=Washington County}} which used it until the mid-1990s. That building was since razed and replaced by a Home Depot.

• The building is now used as Arts & Communication Magnet Academy.{{cite web |date=August 27, 2018 |title=Once more with feeling |url=https://pamplinmedia.com/bvt/15-news/404490-302178-once-more-with-feeling}}

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."{{cite web|url=https://www.beaverton.k12.or.us/about-us/school-board|publisher=Beaverton School District|access-date=March 22, 2015|title=School Board}} 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.{{cite web|url=https://www.beaverton.k12.or.us/about-us/school-board/Pages/Board-Members.aspx|publisher=Beaverton School District|title=Board members|access-date=2015-03-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402104950/https://www.beaverton.k12.or.us/about-us/school-board/Pages/Board-Members.aspx|archive-date=2015-04-02|url-status=dead}}

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

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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.{{cite news |url=http://blog.oregonlive.com/education_impact/2009/09/homelessbydistrict.pdf |title=Count of homeless students in Oregon school districts, 2008–2009 |newspaper=The Oregonian |pages=6 |access-date=September 18, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120910202612/http://blog.oregonlive.com/education_impact/2009/09/homelessbydistrict.pdf |archive-date=September 10, 2012 }} By 2010, the number of homeless students had grown to 1,580, the highest of any school district in the state.{{cite news|url= http://pamplinmedia.com/component/content/article?id=1025 |title= High homeless numbers in Beaverton schools point to outreach |date= January 19, 2011| newspaper= Beaverton Valley Times| access-date= 2014-10-13| quote= 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.}}

The following are the district's teacher/student staffing ratios (K-5 numbers have been updated for the 2019–2020 school year):{{update after|2011|1|1}}

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

All information below is as of October 1, 2014.

• Ethnicity:
• 13% Asian
• 3% Black
• 24% Hispanic or Latino
• 1% Native American/Alaska Native
• 1% Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander
• 52% White
• 7% Other (includes students identifying with more than one of the categories above or students not identifying with any of the categories above)
• 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

{{cite web|url=https://www.beaverton.k12.or.us/about/quick-facts|title=Student and Teacher Profile|access-date=2015-03-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402111806/https://www.beaverton.k12.or.us/about/quick-facts|archive-date=2015-04-02|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=https://www.beaverton.k12.or.us/dist/Pages/District-Statistics.aspx|title=Beaverton School District Statistics|access-date=2015-09-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150906203708/https://www.beaverton.k12.or.us/dist/Pages/District-Statistics.aspx|archive-date=2015-09-06|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=https://www.beaverton.k12.or.us/dist/Research%20%20Reports/2014-2015%20Docs/Race%20and%20Ethnic%20Percentages_2015.pdf|title=Student Race and Ethnicity|access-date=2015-09-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150912105407/https://www.beaverton.k12.or.us/dist/Research%20%20Reports/2014-2015%20Docs/Race%20and%20Ethnic%20Percentages_2015.pdf|archive-date=2015-09-12|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=https://www.beaverton.k12.or.us/dist/Research%20%20Reports/2014-2015%20Docs/Gender%20by%20school_for%20web2015.pdf|title=Student Gender Profile|access-date=2015-09-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150912050744/https://www.beaverton.k12.or.us/dist/Research%20%20Reports/2014-2015%20Docs/Gender%20by%20school_for%20web2015.pdf|archive-date=2015-09-12|url-status=dead}}

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