This is a list of public school districts in Oregon, a U.S. state. The Oregon Department of Education has authority over public schools. Oregon has 188 public school districts. History In previous eras, the state had around 2,000 school districts. This figure was down to 365 in 1969. Types of districts Oregon's elementary and secondary school districts include unified, component elementary, union high and unified elementary districts. Unified districts serve students from kindergarten to twelfth grade, union high school districts serve students in seventh or ninth grades through twelfth grade who reside within the district's boundaries and have attended component elementary districts within the district's boundaries. Component elementary districts are financially responsible for educating students from kindergarten through the sixth or eighth grades. A component district is wholly within a single union high school district. Elementary, or unified elementary, districts operate the same programs as component districts but are also financially responsible for providing for their students' high school education. These districts do this through tuition arrangements with districts that have seventh or ninth through twelfth-grade programs. There is one union high school district, Harney County Union High School District, that operates a single school: Crane Union High School. The eight component elementary school districts are Crane, Diamond, Double O, Drewsey, Frenchglen, Pine Creek, Suntex and South Harney. The unified elementary districts include Adel, Annex, Arock, Ashwood, Black Butte, Juntura, McDermitt, Pinehurst, Plush and Troy. A Adel School District Adrian School District Alsea School District Amity School District Annex School District, Ontario Arlington School District Arock School District Ashland School District Ashwood School District Astoria School District Athena-Weston School District B Baker School District, Baker City Bandon School District Banks School District Beaverton School District Bend-La Pine School District Bethel School District, Eugene Blachly School District Black Butte School District, Camp Sherman Brookings-Harbor School District Burnt River School District, Unity Butte Falls School District C Camas Valley School District Canby School District Cascade School District, Turner Centennial School District, Portland Central School District, Independence Central Curry School District, Gold Beach Central Linn School District, Brownsville Central Point School District (formerly Jackson County School District) Clatskanie School District Colton School District Condon School District Coos Bay School District Coquille School District Corbett School District Corvallis School District Cove School District Creswell School District Crook County School District, Prineville Crow-Applegate-Lorane School District Culver School District D Dallas School District David Douglas School