Editing Salem, Oregon (section)

==Education==

===Elementary and secondary===
[[File:WillametteUniversityStream.jpg|thumb|The [[Mark O. Hatfield Library|Mark Hatfield Library]] and stream on the campus of Willamette University]]

Salem's public elementary and secondary schools are part of the [[Salem-Keizer School District]], which includes almost all of the city limits.<ref name=MarionCountySchoolMap>{{cite web|url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/PL20/st41_or/schooldistrict_maps/c41047_marion/DC20SD_C41047.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220720204934/https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/PL20/st41_or/schooldistrict_maps/c41047_marion/DC20SD_C41047.pdf |archive-date=2022-07-20 |url-status=live|title=2020 CENSUS - SCHOOL DISTRICT REFERENCE MAP: Marion County, OR|publisher=[[U.S. Census Bureau]]|access-date=2022-07-20}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/PL20/st41_or/schooldistrict_maps/c41053_polk/DC20SD_C41053.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220720205556/https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/PL20/st41_or/schooldistrict_maps/c41053_polk/DC20SD_C41053.pdf |archive-date=2022-07-20 |url-status=live|title=2020 CENSUS - SCHOOL DISTRICT REFERENCE MAP: Polk County, OR|publisher=[[U.S. Census Bureau]]|access-date=2022-07-20}}</ref> The Salem-Keizer district has approximately 39,000 students and is the second largest public school district in the state.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.salkeiz.k12.or.us/ |title=Salem-Keizer Public Schools |access-date=December 2, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071014003938/http://salkeiz.k12.or.us/ |archive-date=October 14, 2007 |url-status=live }}</ref> A small section of Salem in Marion County is assigned to [[Cascade School District 5]].<ref name=MarionCountySchoolMap/>

The city also has many private elementary and secondary schools such as [[Blanchet Catholic School]] and [[Salem Academy Christian]]. One school, Willamette Academy, is part of an outreach program run by Willamette University that is designed to expose under-represented students to the rewards of an academic life at an early age (7th–12th grade).<ref>[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3839/is_200310/ai_n9329676/pg_4 Affirmative Action and Democratic Vistas: After the Supreme Court Michigan Cases] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140628062314/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3839/is_200310/ai_n9329676/pg_4 |date=June 28, 2014 }}</ref>

Salem is also home to several public [[boarding school]]s, the [[Chemawa Indian School]] (a [[Bureau of Indian Education]] (BIE)-affiliated Native American high school), and the [[Oregon School for the Deaf]]. [[Oregon School for the Blind]] was formerly in the city and closed in 2009.<ref name="close">{{cite news|url=http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2009/06/final_legislative_vote_is_deci.html|title=Vote closes Oregon School for the Blind|last=Hammond|first=Betsy|date=June 10, 2009|work=[[The Oregonian]]|access-date=10 March 2010}}</ref>
<!--* Will add schools with wiki articles to the main article) Abiqua School - private secular - elementary and middle school
* [[Winema School]] (formerly Chemeketa Alternative High) - public State - high school
* Early College High SchoolCatholic – middle and high school
* Concordia Lutheran School – private Lutheran Missouri Synod – elementary and middle school
* Cornerstone Christian School – private nondenominational – preschool and elementary
* Grace Academy – private nondenominational – elementary, middle, and high school
* The Heritage School – private secular – elementary and middle "alternative" school
* H.I.S. Academy – private nondenominational – elementary through high school
* Queen of Peace Catholic School – private Roman Catholic – elementary
* Riviera Christian School – private Baptist – preschool and elementary
* Salem Academy Christian Schools – private nondenominational – preschool to high school, multiple locations
* Sonshine School – private Baptist – preschool and elementary
* St. Joseph School – private Roman Catholic – elementary
* St. Vincent de Paul Catholic School – private Roman Catholic – preschool and elementary
* Western Mennonite School – private Mennonite – middle and high school
* Willamette Academy – private nonsectarian but historically United Methodist – high school supplementary
*Livingstone Adventist Academy – private Seventh-Day Adventist- Elementary, Middle and Highschool-->

===Colleges and universities===
Post secondary schools include [[Chemeketa Community College]], [[Corban University]], [[Tokyo International University|Tokyo International University of America]], and [[Willamette University]], the oldest university in the American west.<ref name="wu">Gatke, Robert Moulton. 1943. ''Chronicles of Willamette, the pioneer university of the West''. Portland, Or: Binfords & Mort.</ref> [[Portland State University]], [[Eastern Oregon University]], [[Western Oregon University]] and [[Oregon State University]] provide classes and a handful of undergraduate degrees at Chemeketa Community College.

All of Marion County and all of Polk County are within the Chemeketa community college district.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.clatsopcc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/02-2-OR-CC-color-map.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201001051322/https://www.clatsopcc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/02-2-OR-CC-color-map.pdf |archive-date=2020-10-01 |url-status=live|title=Oregon Community Colleges and Community College Districts|publisher=[[Oregon Department of Community Colleges & Workforce Development]]|access-date=2022-07-17}}</ref>