URGENT UPDATE

It’s time! We need you!

The Feasibility Study we fought for is complete, and the Superintendent and her team will present findings to the board, who will instruct the Long Range Facilities Planning Committee to update their recommendation, which will then inform the contents of the 2025 Bond.

This may be the most pivotal meeting yet!

What can you do?

All the materials are posted in the Board Meeting agenda (Item 6.3). Check them out, provide testimony, and show up at this board meeting to support Lake Grove!

Lake OSwego School DIstrict Board:

Put Students First! Rebuild Lake Grove Elementary On-Site

A thriving, diverse, high-enrollment school and its centrally located sports fields could be closed and replaced by administrative buildings, City pet projects, or private development, with little to no vetting of the trade-offs to the community.

In June, public outcry forced the district to undertake a feasibility study to better inform their decision, but the story won’t end there. We need your support to save this historic institution that sits at the heart of the Lake Grove neighborhood.

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Communities Across Lake Oswego Agree

Since a handful of parents were informed of the plan in April, the community has rallied to support rebuilding Lake Grove where it is! It’s clear closing LGE would result in cascading changes across the district and the city. Join us in asking for more information, more engagement, and more accountability, prior to board and city decisions!

Who supports leaving Lake Grove (and all LOSD schools) in place?

Lake Oswego Businesses want to save LGE!

Duke’s Public House in First Addition, Dischinger Orthodontics, Deno’s, Corona’s, and Aji Tram in Lake Grove, and The Harvest Wine Bar in Westlake are just a few businesses that want Lake Grove Elementary to be rebuilt on-site.

Be sure to support our Supporters with your business!

Neighborhood Associations and Parent Groups want to save LGE!

Waluga Neighborhood Association, Lake Grove Neighborhood Association, and Lake Forest Neighborhood Association, plus LGE PTA, and LO Little League and Softball Leagues have expressed formal support for leaving LGE in place, where it’s been for nearly 100 years!

View all our growing list of Supporters

Families and Community Members want to save LGE!

Yes, even those without kids in LOSD are showing up to express their support for LGE remaining where it is! You can add your voice by signing the petition, submitting testimony to the School Board, showing up at an event, buying a t-shirt, or displaying a yard sign.

Read moving testimonies from LO residents

What’s At Stake

It’s not as simple as closing one school or relocating a few hundred students a few years down the line. Removing a school from a location that’s had one for more than half a century will reshape the character of the neighborhood in unanticipated ways and have cascading effects across all of Lake Oswego.
We’re asking for sufficient time to make honest assessments of the impacts to our kids, our community, and our future.

Our Walkable Lifestyle

Many families carefully selected this neighborhood for the school and walkable, bike-friendly mixed use business district (Lake Grove Village) the City set out as a plan over 20 years ago. We don’t want a second LO downtown and we don’t want a 30+ minute bus commute for our kids!

District-Wide Facilities

Proposed plans will reduce the number of sports facilities (LGE’s are the largest and has the only youth rated softball field). Plus, for the first time ever, the District would be closing a school with thriving, growing enrollment. Boundaries will be redrawn for everyone – AGAIN. This move affects ALL of us.

Our Neighborhood

Proposed changes will impact property values, real estate, traffic patterns, types of allowable development (the presence of a school ensures nearby businesses are family-friendly), and more. None of the proposals under current review by LOSD consider this non-monetary cost to residents.

What We’re Asking For

This isn’t an easy fight – both the District and the City (and individuals within each group) stand to benefit monetarily from the closure of our local school and displacement of hundreds of current and future students across all Lake Oswego elementary schools. It’s in their interest to keep this process quiet and fast. We’re asking for local community input to be heard and taken into account, and for the powers that be to set aside personal interests and do what’s right for their constituents and community.

Transparency

We need more information about what exactly the district envisions for Forest Hills, Lake Grove, Uplands, and Palisades properties, and disclosures around proposals being considered.

Authentic Input

We need a process that offers engagement, collaboration, and compromise, rather than division.

True Impact Studies

We need real feasibility studies by impartial third parties, input from subject matter experts, and honest accounting when it comes to projected income a lease of the LGE site would bring.

Our Community’s Voice is Powerful, Diverse, and Rooted in History

This coalition is diverse in demographic and lived experience, and stronger through that diversity – connected at the core by our deep-rooted connection to our community and heritage. Lake Grove Elementary has been a beating heart of this area for nearly 100 years.

We vow to use our influence to spur collective action in line with our shared values, even if it means standing up to elected and appointed leaders in voice, action, and vote. Join us in advocating for thoughtful decision-making.

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Why Join Us?

Closing schools impacts us ALL in Lake Oswego.
As confirmed in the LOSD Town Hall on Saturday, June 8, closing any schools will require redrawing school boundaries to balance enrollment. Also not in dispute: repurposing Lake Grove’s site for development will result in a loss of desperately needed field space, resulting in later practice times for families and threatening the existence of girls softball in Lake Oswego. Finally, closing schools leaves LOSD with limited land options and resources for future growth and school repairs, and replacing Lake Grove with a commercial development would undoubtedly change the character of the neighborhood. Whether you have kids in the district or not, school closures affect us all. If you agree, sign the petition.

Get the Facts in our FAQ

The Lake Grove community is diverse and has lots of reasons to keep the school where it is. Find out what’s been happening, and why we’re asking the District to leave our schools alone.

Read the FAQ

Join the Fight

We’re holding events to spread the word and bring community together, and highlighting meetings where we can make our voices heard. See what we have planned next.

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Save Lake Grove

Join us in advocating for the heartbeat of Lake Grove. Your voice counts in the decisions that shape our children’s futures. Act Now to let our LOSD School Board know that Lake Grove Elementary should NOT be closed or displaced permanently to Uplands.

Act Now!