Promoting Diversity at OES
Oregon Episcopal School honors and respects a diversity of ideas, perspectives, experiences, and traditions, and it also seeks a diversity of peoples within our community. These are some of the ways diversity is honored at OES:
- The Diversity and Outreach Committee of our Board of Trustees looks for ways to develop and maintain a community in which racial, ethnic, religious, economic, and other diverse groups are welcomed.
- International perspectives are included in the curriculum.
- Students and faculty are actively recruited from a range of racial and ethnic backgrounds.
- Economic diversity is furthered through financial aid.
- The Boarding Program attracts students from around the globe.
- Through the AASK program, OES partners with Vose Elementary School, a local public school for which 62% of its families are of Hispanic background and 76% of whose families are at or below the Federal poverty line.
- Students from many religious backgrounds attend the school, where they find their family's religious traditions respected and honored.
- Exchange programs with schools in Mexico and France offer OES students direct experience of other countries and their people.
- Several OES students and faculty members attend the People of Color Conference, which is held annually in various locations in the United States. The conference is sponsored by the National Association of Independent Schools.
- Parents from each division serve on the Community Diversity Link, which meets every other week to discuss issues involving diversity and plan educational activities such as speakers and presentations for all Upper School students.
