Editing Cedar Mill, Oregon (section)

===School history===
The first school district serving Cedar Mill, along with nearby [[Bethany, Oregon|Bethany]], the Union School District (District 6), was established in 1856. The first school, serving grades 1 through 8, was built on land donated by pioneer Samuel Walters. The one-room Union School building, built in 1884 and located on what is now N.W. 143rd Avenue adjacent to the Union Cemetery, was replaced by a new two-room building on the same site in 1901, and the school remained in operation until 1948.<ref name="pearsongw"/><ref name=Varner>{{cite book|last1=Varner|first1=Gerald H.|title=School Days: A History of Public Schools In and Around Beaverton, Oregon, 1856–2000|date=2000|publisher=<!--Gerald H. Varner-->|isbn=0-9642353-3-1|pages=21–22, 30–33}}</ref> District 6 was divided twice in the 1880s, with the eastern portion becoming the new Cedar Mill School District in 1883 and the northwestern portion becoming the Bethany School District in 1887 (serving the Bethany and [[Rockcreek, Oregon|Rock Creek]] areas, not Cedar Mill).  The Union and Bethany districts consolidated in 1948, renamed as Sunset Valley School District.  In 1960, the Cedar Mill and Sunset Valley Districts were absorbed by a greatly expanded Beaverton School District (District 48).<ref name=Varner/>

Another former school in the area was Sunset Valley Elementary School, which was built in 1948 to replace Union School and was located on Murray Road immediately north of [[Sunset Highway (Oregon)|Sunset Highway]]. In 1979, shortly before the school's closure in spring 1980, the building was acquired by [[Electro Scientific Industries]]<ref name=oreg-1980apr8>{{cite news|last=Leeson|first=Jeanne|title=Worthwhile experience: Children, industry share school rooms|newspaper=The Oregonian|date=April 8, 1980|edition=Washington County|page=W1}}</ref> (whose main campus was located nearby) and used as ESI's administrative headquarters until the mid-1990s, when it was razed and replaced by a [[The Home Depot|Home Depot]] store.<ref name=Varner/>