Type Public Principal Brian Sica Number of students About 700 (2015–16) Phone +1 503-356-3630 Founded 2007 | Opened 2007 Grades 6-12 Website Official site District Beaverton School District | |
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Address 18640 Walker Road, Beaverton, OR 97006, USA Similar School of Science & Technolo, Beaverton School District, Raymond Arthur Brown Mi, Mountain View Middle Sc, J W Poynter Middle Sc | ||
The Beaverton Health & Science School is a public school in the U.S. state of Oregon. Part of the Beaverton School District (BSD), the school offer grades 6 through 12. Opened in 2007, the school is housed in the Capital Center at 185th Avenue and Walker Road in Hillsboro, Oregon. Since the beginning of 2016, the school has been directly adjacent to another BSD option school, the School of Science & Technology, with the relocation of that school to the Capital Center at the end of 2015.
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History
The school district started the school in September 2007 with 120 students in ninth grade as an option program, with plans to add students each year until it included grades six through twelve. In January 2008, the district purchased the Capital Center from Portland Community College and the Oregon University System for $15 million to serve as the home for the Health & Science School. Plans called for an additional $6 million to be spent remodeling the center for use by the school. The Capital Center was previously a campus of Tektronix that was sold in 1995 to a consortium of local public education entities with plans that included using part of it for a regional high school.
In 2008, the school was one of six district schools that failed to provide enough class time to meet a state mandate. Three students were arrested on accusations of arson for a fire in a bathroom at the school in April 2011. Also in 2011, the school was rated as needing improvement by the state after it failed to hold some state mandated tests. The school was identified as one of several schools that would take students with the closure of Terra Nova High School in 2012. Female students participated in the Hermanas Conference sponsored by Intel Corporation in February 2013.
Academics
Health & Science School is an option school in which students opt out of their neighborhood school and are entered into a lottery for one of the limited spots at the school. As of 2013 it had an achievement index rating from the state of 56 and a rating of below average. Enrollment for the 2012 to 2013 school year was 687 students.