The Athena-Weston School District is a small, rural school district in Eastern Oregon. The towns of Athena and Weston lie at the foothills of the Blue Mountains between Walla Walla, Washington and Pendleton, Oregon. Wheat and pea farming, as well as canneries provide many of the jobs in the area. Parents of the students work in agriculture or they commute to Pendleton or Walla Walla for various other employment opportunities. Many students work in jobs related to agriculture during the summer months and are not employed during the school year. The student population is stable with an ethnic population of 80% Caucasian, 9% Native American, 6% Hispanic, 1% Asian, and 1% African American. The percent of students receiving free or reduced lunches has increased from 30 to 42% over the last six years. Overall student population is remaining stable at around 600 students. The Athena-Weston staff includes 38 full-time teachers and two part-time teachers. Twenty-nine percent of the teachers have a master's degree. Years of teaching experience range from 1 to 30+ years. The three administrators all have master's degrees with a range of 25 to 104 additional quarter hours beyond their master's degree. Administrative experience ranges from one to 30 years.
Echo Schools strive for excellence in academic achievement through a quality education by providing a positive, safe, challenging environment with opportunities for all leading to high expectations, accountability and responsibility.
Helix School District # 1-R recognizes that education is a shared responsibility. Only when children, parents, schools, and communities work together will optimum learning opportunities exist. Therefore, our schools will use all available resources to develop each student's intellectual, physical, moral, emotional, and social growth so that he/she will become a contributing member of a rapidly changing world. In our democratic society the rights, privileges, dignity, integrity, and personal worth of the individual are highly cherished. We believe that each person, regardless of race, color, gender, creed, economic status, or ability is a resource of our nation and that is the function of the school to develop that resource as far as possible. Democracy implies privileges, rights and responsibilities. We believe students have inherent human rights balanced by the responsibility for living and working harmoniously in the school community. The school provides opportunities for working with others, sharing responsibilities, developing initiative, and assuming accountability for one's own decisions. By providing these opportunities, the school gives each child an introduction to the knowledge and understanding needed for good citizenship and enriched living. We believe all students can learn and we are committed to accommodating individual differences and learning styles. With this commitment in mind, Helix School District #1-R dedicates it's resources to the development and maintenance of balanced programs which focus sharply on the individual worth, dignity, and self-esteem of each student.
The Hermiston School District is the largest school district in Eastern Oregon, exceeding 5,200 students, and continues to experience steady growth. It serves students in grades kindergarten through 12 with a broad range of programs from basic skills to vocational opportunities to advanced placement classes. The District employs about 280 teachers, 16 administrators and 210 support staff, making it one of the largest employers in the city. Serving some 22,000 residents in Hermiston and the surrounding communities, around 34 percent of the total population is of Hispanic origin. The athletic program includes football, basketball, volleyball, baseball, track, tennis, wrestling, swimming, soccer, and softball. Activities available include color guard, dance team, marching band, pep band, debate, rally, vocal music, FFA, DECA, and FBLA.
Milton-Freewater is nestled along the base of the Blue Mountains in northeast Oregon 10 miles south of Walla Walla, Washington and 30 miles north of Pendleton, Oregon. Our community鈥檚 school facilities are located within the town proper and in the surrounding area. The Walla Walla River Valley provides Milton-Freewater鈥檚 approximate 10,000 residents with numerous cultural and recreational opportunities, including hunting, fishing, boating, and skiing, as well as the theater and symphony. Agriculture is the foundation of our local economy with a thriving fruit crop industry. Our staff, parents and community are friendly, caring and dedicated to providing a positive learning environment for all children. They are committed to moving our students into the 21st century with the necessary skills to succeed, while offering extensive support and extracurricular activities for all of our students.
The PSD has distinct advantages not always found in districts of a similar size. Students in Pendleton schools always score well on state achievement tests. Traditionally, those students who plan to attend college score well above state and national scores on the Scholastic Aptitude Test. The PSD is staffed with many dedicated long-term employees. The Pendleton schools have an outstanding music program with instruction in band, choir and orchestra at the middle and senior high schools. Pendleton sports programs have long-standing reputations for winning, attributed in large part to the tremendous community pride, spirit and tradition. Many sports start at the grade school level and continue through high school with a positive attitude and thus a winning program. The district also has many school-related clubs, organizations and extracurricular activities that give students the opportunity to be involved in their school and community. An aggressive DARE program, character education progam and gang awareness education is stressed at all levels.
The Stanfield School District is dedicated to creating a program that prepares students to excel in life. In order to do this, students must receive appropriate education in the basic skills of reading, writing, math and science. In addition, they must learn to think critically, understand the world and its people, be effective producers, wise consumers and have a positive role in society. The district believes that it must take an active role along with parents and community in fostering these attitudes.
Ukiah School is nestled in the foothills of the Blue Mountains of Eastern Oregon. The community of Ukiah, Oregon hosts our white school house as a prominent fixture, proudly capping the hill on the north side of town. The current school building was built in 1926, and has served in educating the youth of the Camas Valley for 84 years. Ukiah School is now well known for hosting students both domestic and foreign as part of the Boarding School in the Blues Program. More information on that program can be found in the links to the left. In Ukiah, grades K-12 are housed together in the white school house, reminiscent of the old fashioned one room school house. Classes from preschool to 5th grade are housed in the north wing, while the rest of the students share classrooms surrounding the open foyer of the school, contributing to the open and interactive relationships we are proud to promote. The unique environment in Ukiah allows for close interaction of students of various ages as well as school staff. While the main focus of schooling is academics, Ukiah also encourages participation in extra-curricular activities. Ukiah School fields teams for high school aged students as part of the 1-A High Desert League under the Oregon School Activities Association. Students participate in volleyball, soccer, basketball, skiing, snowboarding, and track and field. Not all activities are sports related. There is the Technology Student Association and the yearbook club. In addition, Ukiah students and community members come together to present plays and attend cultural experiences of interest thought the academic year. Ukiah School staff are highly motivated to encourage and assist in their students success. Academics are cultivated into life long passions for learning and growing. The low student teacher ratios allow for near one on one interaction, and the ability to ensure students of all ages and abilities can feel confident and successful.
Our purpose is to provide our students with a top quality public education so that they may become the successful, contributing citizens of the future. Our school district consists of 1360 students, 73 teachers, 64 classified, 6 administrators, 7 supervisory, and 3 confidential staff members. We have three schools: an elementary, a middle and a high school. Our location is at the confluence of the Umatilla and Columbia Rivers, and we are rich in history of Lewis and Clark as well as the Tribes of the Umatilla, Walla Walla, and Cayuse Indians. We are proud of our district: our staff is working hard, our students are learning and our community gives us wonderful support.
The InterMountain Education Service District is the result of a merger between the Umatilla-Morrow and Union-Baker ESDs, completed on May 31, 2011. The resulting IMESD has served the children of Eastern Oregon since 1863. The IMESD has approximately 235 employees who serve nearly 23,000 students in 19 school districts throughout a four-county service area -- Umatilla, Morrow, Union and Baker counties. The IMESD is legislatively mandated to provide four core areas of service to students and schools: Programs for children with special needs, technology support, administrative services, and school improvement services. However, while the IMESD provides excellence service in these four program areas, it also provides a multitude of other programs and services to school districts. In addition, the IMESD also has an entrepreneurial sector, InterMountain Initiatives, which provides similar services to school districts outside the component area, non-profit organizations, and other public agencies as a way of subsidizing services for school districts and relieving reliance upon the General Fund.
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