The Tigard-Tualatin School District (23J) is a

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serving part of the

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including all or portions of the cities of Tigard, Tualatin,

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, and King City, as well as most of the unincorporated communities of

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and Bull Mountain.

History

Tigard Elementary School District 23 was established in 1875, while the Tualatin district was started as the Bridgeport district (26J). These districts later merged, as did the Tigard high school district (2J) and the Tualatin high school district (26J). From its inception until 1992, the district operated only one "senior" high school, Tigard High, which covered grades 10-12. Fowler and Twality

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s covered grades 7-9. In 1992, a second high school, Tualatin High, was opened, and the district took the opportunity to switch to a

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system in which the two high schools would cover grades 9-12, the existing junior high schools changed to middle schools covering grades 6-8, and the

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s covered grades K-5. A third middle school, Hazelbrook, was also added in 1992. When Tualatin High opened, new school attendance boundaries were drawn; most students at Twality would attend Tualatin High and most students at Fowler would attend Tigard High. Students living in certain areas were given the option of attending either high school.

Service area

Its boundary includes most of the municipalities of Tigard and Tualatin, all of

and King City, the majority of the

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s of Bull Mountain and

, and small sections of

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and Rivergrove.

Demographics

In the 2009 school year, the district had 170 students classified as homeless by the

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, or 1.3% of students in the district.

Schools

High schools

Tigard High School Tigard High School is a public high school located in Tigard, Oregon, United States. It is one of two high schools in the Tigard-Tualatin School District and educated students in grades 9–12. History Tigard High School originally was in a diff ...

Tualatin High School Tualatin High School is a public high school located in Tualatin, Oregon, United States. Students in grades 9 through 12 attend the school, which is part of the Tigard-Tualatin School District. Opened in 1992, school teams are known as the Timberw ...

Middle schools

*Fowler Middle School *Hazelbrook Middle School *Twality Middle School

Elementary schools

*Deer Creek *Durham *Metzger *Alberta Rider *James Templeton *Charles F. Tigard *Tualatin *Mary Woodward *Byrom *Bridgeport

Alternative schools

*Tigard-Tualatin Online Academy *

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Partnerships

In the 1980s the district began its relationship with the

Portland Japanese School Portland Japanese School (PJS; ポートランド日本人学校 ''Pōtorando Nihonjin Gakkō'') is a Japanese weekend supplementary school located in the Portland metropolitan area.weekend Japanese educational program. The Japanese school used Twality Middle School until 1992, when Hazelbrook Middle School opened. The Japanese school is now held at Hazelbrook. Every summer the Japanese school sends some Tigard-Tualatin school employees to Japan so they can study

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.Florip, Eric.
Every weekend, Tualatin's Hazelbrook Middle School becomes Portland Japanese School, where it's all math and language

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References

External links

Tigard-Tualatin School District website
{{Tualatin, Oregon School districts in Oregon Tigard, Oregon Tualatin, Oregon Education in Washington County, Oregon 1875 establishments in Oregon