Centennial School District (Oregon)


Centennial School District is a school district in the U.S. state of Oregon. It serves the cities of Gresham and southeast Portland, with an enrollment of approximately 6,700 students.

Demographics

In the 2009 school year, the district had 109 students classified as homeless by the Department of Education, or 1.6% of students in the district.

Elementary schools

On August 9, 2017, the Centennial School District Board voted in favor of renaming three of its elementary schools, Lynch Meadows, Lynch View, and Lynch Wood. The reason given behind the move was that the name "Lynch," the surname of a family that donated land for the schools over a hundred years earlier, reminded people of the act of lynching and racial connotations related to it. The board decided to change Lynch View's name to Patrick Lynch Elementary while Lynch Meadows and Lynch Wood would drop "Lynch" from their names pending a decision for new permanent names.