Types of Districts

Elementary/secondary school districts are made up of unified, component elementary, union high and unified elementary districts.

• Unified districts offer education programs for students in kindergarten through grade 12.
• Union high school districts offer programs for students in grades seven or nine through 12 who reside within the union high school district’s boundaries and have attended component elementary districts within the district’s boundaries.
• Component districts are financially responsible for providing an education program for students in kindergarten through grades six or eight. The territory of a component district is wholly within one union high school district.
• Elementary, or unified elementary, districts operate the same programs as component districts but are financially responsible for providing for their students’ high school education. The district does this through tuition arrangements with districts that have seventh or ninth through 12th-grade programs.

There is one union high school district (Crane Union High School). The eight component elementary school districts are: Crane, Diamond, Double O, Drewsey, Frenchglen, Pine Creek, Suntex and South Harney. The 11 unified elementary districts include: Adel, Annex, Arock, Ashwood, Black Butte, Brothers, Juntura, McDermitt, Pinehurst, Plush and Troy.

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