Oregon GEAR UP

Oregon GEAR UP has served over 40,000 students in 109 schools in 48 communities since 2002.

Oregon received its first six-year GEAR UP grant in 2002, working with 16 clusters (consisting of a high school and one or more feeder middle schools) around the state. A second federal grant began in 2008 with a focus on supporting 12 new rural communities. An additional group of 10 clusters, concentrated in Curry, Coos, and Douglas counties, joined in 2011, with support from The Ford Family Foundation. A third federal GEAR UP grant began in 2014, serving 21 communities until 2021. In 2016, we started the Affiliate program in order to serve additional communities.

Click on the name of a community to learn about the schools involved. To see former GEAR UP sites, click on the icon in the upper left-hand corner of the map.