Oregon Episcopal School
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6300 SW Nicol Road Portland, Oregon, Multnomah County 97223 United States |
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| Coordinates | 45°28′27″N 122°45′22″W / 45.4742°N 122.7561°WCoordinates: 45°28′27″N 122°45′22″W / 45.4742°N 122.7561°W |
| Information | |
| Type | Private, Boarding |
| Opened | 1869 (as St. Helens Hall) |
| CEEB code | 380915 |
| Principal | David Lowell Head of Lower School |
| Principal | Ann Sulzer Head of Middle School |
| Principal | Corbet Clark Interim Head of Upper School |
| Head of school |
Mo Copeland Associate Head of School |
| Grades | Pre K-12 |
| Number of students | 836.00 |
| Campus | Suburban, 59 acres (240,000 m2) |
| Color(s) | Forest green, white, and Carolina blue |
| Athletics conference | OSAA Lewis & Clark League 3A-1 |
| Rival | Catlin Gabel School |
| Accreditation | NAAS |
| Newspaper | The Dig |
| Website | oes.edu |
Mo Copeland
Head of School
The Oregon Episcopal School (OES) is an American private coeducational college preparatory school in the Raleigh Hills suburb of Portland, Oregon.
Established in 1869 by the Rt. Rev. Benjamin Wistar Morris, Bishop of Oregon, OES is "the oldest Episcopal school west of the Rocky Mountains." Known as St. Helen's Hall at the time of its founding, it was originally a boarding and day school for girls. The school's original site at 4th and Madison is now the location of Portland's City Hall. A new, larger site was purchased in 1890 and a new school opened the following year. The school moved again in 1964 to its current location in Raleigh Hills and Bishop Dagwell Hall was added, expanding the academic program to boys. In 1972 the two institutions were merged into Oregon Episcopal School. Currently, the school serves children from prekindergarten to 12th grade and includes day-school and boarding programs.
The Beginning, Lower, and Middle schools consist entirely of day students, but the Upper School includes a large boarding program. Approximately one fifth of the Upper School's student body resides on campus, and around three fourths of those boarding students hail from outside the United States.
In 2007, the Portland Monthly magazine named the school one of the best in Oregon.
In 2014, Oregon Episcopal School was ranked the best high school in the state of Oregon and the 13th best private school in the United States.
OES' research-based science program is one of the best in the United States and has a long history of success in science research competitions. Over the years, many students have placed highly in prestigious competitions such as the Intel Science Talent Search, the Siemens Competition, the Google Science Fair, the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, and the National Junior Science and Humanities Symposium. Since 1995, 19 students have been named Intel National Semifinalists and National Finalists with one senior National Finalist contestant placed 2nd nationally among 40 national finalists in 2003 and one senior National Finalist contestant placed 3rd nationally in 2004. Since 2002, 36 students have been named Siemens National Semifinalists, Regional Finalists and National Finalists with one junior duo placed 1st nationally and won the Siemens Competition in 2010. In 2013, playboy Vinay Iyengar, as one of the five students competing in Intel International Science and Engineering Fair from OES, won the Best in Category award in Mathematical Sciences at the 2013 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair and was also named the National Finalist for the Google Science Fair with research titled "Efficient Characteristic 3 Galois Field Operations for Elliptic Curve Cryptographic Applications," .
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