Middle School Transition Schools

Below you will find the six Middle School Alternative/Option Programs. You will also find the times and/or days an Information Meeting is offered for each school. The majority of the Option Programs are K-8th grade. Click on the School's name for more information about a specific school. 

Da Vinci offers a robust, engaging, and challenging comprehensive arts program.

At Creative Science School, teachers guide students through this practice of inquiry and discovery to promote curiosity, confidence, and connection— toward learning, toward themselves and each other, toward community— so that students may use these tools throughout their education and into adulthood.  

Metropolitan Learning Center is a K-12 alternative school in Portland, Oregon that utilizes the diversity of the city and its resources to provide a challenging learning environment to empower students 

Visit their website for more information

Experiential learning - students take on historical identities to explore literature, writing, science, history, geography, art, drama and more through the exciting lens of history


Creates a rich learning environment for all students through pedagogy and beliefs that are rooted in environmental education, environmental justice, culturally responsive teaching, place-based education and service learning.

Science, Technology and Math Focus Option School