Oregon Schools Seismic Status Reports

CREW Factsheets: Preparing Schools for Earthquakes

• Schools in Oregon
• Why Earthquake Safety is Critical
• Schools and the Tsunami Hazard

School Seismic Status Reports

*Why weren't some school districts included in the 2007 DOGAMI evaluation?
According to the full seismic report, section 2.1: Qualifying Buildings: K-12 Public Schools and Education Service Districts (ESD): "In the absence of a data set containing capacity information, DOGAMI used the Oregon Department of Education’s 2005-06 schools enrollment database to determine the qualifying schools sites. Initially, we selected an enrollment of 200 as the cutoff; we then increased the number of schools assessed by employing two additional rules:

• at least 90% of each county’s enrolled students must be included
• 100% of public schools potentially at risk of tsunami inundation must be included

All 1,030 schools in the state with an enrollment of 154 or higher, along with 71 schools with enrollments ranging from 8 to 153, were included. The process resulted in the inclusion of nearly 97% of all enrolled K-12 students. 171 school districts had at least one school included; 39 school districts had no schools included. Only one Education Service District (ESD) school was included. Three schools administered by the Department of Education were included." See the full seismic report for more information.