To reduce overcrowding caused by an impending school closure plan next year, the Lake Oswego School Board could reopen a building that was closed just last year or add portable classrooms to two of its elementary schools.

Lake Oswego Real Estate School Public Hearing

Close to 70 community members gathered at Lakeridge High School as the board heard several recommendations on how to best address overcrowding issues next year as they close additional elementary schools this week. The board will hold a public hearing on the issue April 23, followed by a vote two days later.

The district last April voted to implement a cost-saving plan that closed Palisades Elementary School before this school year, and is slated to shut down Bryant and Uplands elementary schools next year. But after administrators revealed growth in the River Grove Elementary area could lead to portable classrooms next year, a number of parents pushed to create a committee that eventually came out against that idea.

Palisades To Reopen?

A committee presented its recommendations on Monday, pushing for the reopening of Palisades Elementary. A secondary plan includes adjusting the north-south boundary line — which roughly follows Oswego Lake — to redistribute students, including pulling south side students to the north side’s Lake Grove Elementary.

The debate over how to address the River Grove classroom problem is the latest point of contention regarding the school closure plan, which has drawn controversy since it was first proposed last year.

Lake Oswego School Boundaries

Attend the public hearing mentioned above if you have questions or concerns regarding the latest change to Lake Oswego school boundaries.

ALL ABOUT…..Lake Oswego Real Estate. © Copyright 2008-2012. Betty Jung. All Rights Reserved. Use of this article, photos and images without permission is a violation of federal copyright laws.

Lake Oswego Homes For Sale West Linn Homes For Sale Tigard Homes For Sale Search All Homes For Sale Portland Homes For Sale What is your home worth? Free List of Foreclosed Homes For Sale

Betty Jung RE/MAX equity group 503-804-9685 betty@bettyjung.com

Yesterday, OregonLive posted information about the new Lake Oswego school boundaries.

Lake Oswego Real Estate New Lake Oswego School Boundaries

Here is a repost from OregonLive.com

The Lake Oswego School District has new elementary school boundary lines on the north side.

Board members earlier this week approved the plan, which will send current Uplands Elementary students to either Oak Creek Elementary and Forest Hills Elementary after the building closes at the end of this year. Students in the special education ACCESS program currently housed at Uplands will be moved to Lake Grove Elementary.

The new boundaries are necessary as the school prepares to close Uplands and Bryant elementary schools next year as part of a cost-cutting plan that will also send sixth graders to the middle school level next year. The plan,which was approved last April, closed Palisades Elementary School this year.

A committee unanimously approved the recommendation for the north side boundaries, which will send about 90 students to Forest Hills and over 150 to Oak Creek Elementary. A report from the committee said the move better aligns the attendance area for the Uplands and Mountain Park neighborhoods, lowers class-size ratios at Lake Grove, and provides more room for Spanish immersion classes at Lake Grove, a more centrally-located school.

The report said the downsides include a lack of familiar faces for the ACCESS students, who will see few of their current schoolmates at Lake Grove next year. It will also create a “unique” walking zone for some Oak Creek students who will need to travel across the Lake Grove Elementary boundaries, where students will be picked up by bus, the report said.

The board is still waiting on a south side boundary committee, which is mulling over its own recommendations. The conversation on the south side will likely be slightly more controversial, as a number of parents have expressed concern over the possibility of adding portable classrooms at River Grove Elementary while closing schools.

Lake Oswego School Boundary Meeting

That committee recently met this week, and will have another 6 p.m. meeting on Tuesday, March 20, in the Lakeridge High School Library.

Lake Oswego Real Estate For Sale

Looking for a Lake Oswego home, click here to view all the Lake Oswego houses for sale, then give me a call at 503-804-9685 and I’d be happy to show you any Lake Oswego property.

LAKE OSWEGO REAL ESTATE BUYER’S AGENT

Looking for a home in another area? I’d love to be your buyer’s agent, please give me a call at 503-804-9685. You can start your search here by address, area, neighborhood, MLS#, etc. for your new home.

ALL ABOUT…..Lake Oswego Real Estate. © Copyright 2008-2012. Betty Jung. All Rights Reserved. Use of this article, photos and images without permission is a violation of federal copyright laws.

The Lake Oswego School Board voted to offer 28 “open enrollment” spots for out-of-district ninth-graders at Lakeridge High School next year, but only to those living within a designated boundary that doesn’t stray more than five miles from the school.

Lake Oswego Real Estate Open Enrollment Comes To Lakeridge High School

Under a new open enrollment law, the district will also grandfather in 155 current transfer or tuition students, and offer 20 open enrollment slots to high schoolers who live within a small area included in the city of Lake Oswego, but not within the district. The board also voted to continue its one-to-one inter-district transfer policy with nearby Riverdale.

Districts across the state are choosing whether to offer “open enrollment,” which would allow out-of-district students to more freely transfer into their borders. Within Clackamas County, five additional districts — Canby, Colton, Gladstone, Oregon City and West Linn-Wilsonville — have decided to offer spots under the new provision.

Lakeridge High School Open Enrollment

The geographic boundary for the Lakeridge “open enrollment” spots extends only into the West Linn-Wilsonville School District, which recently offered 255 of its own transfer spots under open enrollment. Within the boundary, the furthest point away from Lakeridge High School is a little over four miles.

The decision to open up spots at Lakeridge was brought up partly to address equity concerns regarding the populations between Lake Oswego and Lakeridge high schools, but board chair John Wendland said it would also help address the risk of losing students to nearby districts.

High School Open Enrollment

Any incoming ninth-graders who live within Lake Oswego’s “open enrollment” boundary can apply to 28 spots. If more than 28 apply, the spots will be determined by a lottery, with priority given to those who have siblings already enrolled in Lake Oswego’s high school or those with a sibling who was already accepted in the lottery.

Source: OregonLive

Making Plans To Move To Lake Oswego Before The Next School Year?

If you’re planning on moving prior to the start of the next school year, you might want to check on the school boundaries.  If you have any questions, give me a call at 503-804-9685.

In the meantime, you can start your search for a new Lake Oswego home here.  There are currently 268 homes for sale in Lake Oswego, so if you want to get started, now might be a good time so that you will be settled before the start of the new school term.

WANT LAKE OSWEGO NEIGHBORHOOD INFORMATION?

If you want to know what your home would sell for in this current Lake Oswego real estate market, give me a call at 503-804-9685.  Or, if you want additional information about Lake Oswego neighborhoods send me an email at bettyjung.rebroker (at) gmail.com and I can send you the information.

ALL ABOUT…..Lake Oswego Real Estate. © Copyright 2008-2012. Betty Jung. All Rights Reserved. Use of this article, photos and images without permission is a violation of federal copyright laws.

The Business Journal recently gave Lake Oswego something to brag about.  Our Lake Oswego small town leads Oregon in total brainpower, based on a formula devised by the Business Journals’ On Numbers blog.

Lake Oswego Ranks As Having Brainpower

On Numbers rated local brainpower by using raw 2009 data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s five-year American Community Survey. Each place’s score was based on its percentage of adults (25 or older) at each level of a five-rung educational ladder:

• Dropped out before high school graduation
• Stopped at high school diploma
• Stopped at associate degree or attended college but stopped without any degree
• Stopped at bachelor’s degree
• Earned graduate degree and, or professional degree

The point value of a specific rung was determined by the relative earning power of people at that level, based on Census Bureau research.

High Number Of Lake Oswego Residents Are Well-Educated

Nearly 67 percent of Lake Oswego residents 25 and older have earned a diploma, while the comparable national figure is just 27.5 percent. More than 28 percent of Lake Oswego residents have earned post-graduate degrees of some sort.

Lake Oswego Has High Brainpower Index

The Business Journal system gives Lake Oswego a brainpower index of 25.883, putting it 341st out of 14,214 places nationwide.

ALL ABOUT…..Lake Oswego Real Estate. © Copyright 2008-2011. Betty Jung. All Rights Reserved. Use of this article, photos and images without permission is a violation of federal copyright laws.