Hermiston School District 8R is a public

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Hermiston, Oregon Hermiston () is a city in Umatilla County, Oregon, United States. Its population of 19,696 makes it the largest city in Eastern Oregon. Hermiston is the largest, and fastest-growing, city in the Hermiston-Pendleton Micropolitan Statistical Area ...

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. For the beginning of the 2019–2020

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, enrollment totaled 5,809 students in

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through

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s with one high school,

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, two middle schools, and five elementary schools. Founded in the early 1900s, the school district covers the Hermiston proper bordering with the

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to the West and the Stanfield District to the East.

History

The children of the first homestead settlers of Hermiston went to school in two rooms at the Carperter's Hall basement on current East Main street. Hermiston was founded in 1904 and incorporated in 1907.

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established a school in the Sandstone Building and functioning that year. Located on Ridgeway Ave, the school hosted both

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and high school. It was later expanded and a new building was approved for a high school in 1937. With the growth of the community related to the building of the

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, the Locust school was erected and the Ordnance School established as a day nursery for the workers' children and later taken for school use. Students attended in one of two groups, half in the morning, the remaining in the afternoon school. Other buildings in the community were also used as temporary schoolhouses, prominently churches. At that time, the Hermiston Union High School was relocated and the Armand Larive Middle School populated the old high school building.

School Buildings

After the migration during the building of the McNary Dam, the new high school building was expanded in 1946 and later in 1954. The building was eventually demolished. The high school received a new building in 1954 which was expanded in 1968 and 1992 and rebuilt in the summer of 2002 which almost entirely replaced the one structure built in the same location in the 1930s. The Armand Larive Middle School also received a new building. In October 2008, the District put forward a $69.9 million, twenty-year bond measure to retire previous bonds and respond to concerns of aging infrastructure, enrollment growth and quality learning environments. The bond measure was approved by a majority of district voters. The bond focused on facility upgrades and improvements on the school campuses. Student capacity, community growth and over 1,000 students held in modular classrooms for school promoted a new bond measure of $82.735 million known as Measure 30-130 and passed in 2019. The district currently serves students in one high school, two middle schools, and five elementary schools. A sixth elementary school is currently under construction following successful passage of a bond for $82.7 million in November 2019. Renovations to the high school and a replacement of an additional elementary school are also expected.

Demographics

Between 2014 and 2018, in the Hermiston enrollment breakdown by ethnic group, 36% of its students were of

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origin, of any race; 51% of students were of

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ancestry; 1% of students were

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; 3.0% of students were

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; 2.8% of students were of multiple race categories, while Native Americans and

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composed less than 1% of the student population. In the 2009 school year, the district had 68 students classified as homeless by the

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, or 1.4% of students in the district.

Schools

References

External links

Hermiston School District
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