City View Charter School is a public charter school in Hillsboro, Oregon, United States. Opened in 2004, the school is authorized by the Hillsboro School District and offers kindergarten through eighth grades. Curriculum is based on the hands-on project based instruction model Expeditionary Learning developed by Outward Bound. City View is the first charter school in Hillsboro and has an approximate enrollment of 149 students. The school is located on Bentley Street in the Brookwood neighborhood where it rents space from the Alliance Bible Church.HistoryTonie and Kristopher Gomez presented a plan to the Hillsboro School District in March 2003 to establish a charter school using programs created by Outward Bound. The couple hoped the project-based teaching would help their autistic son, and hoped the planned school would open in fall 2004 with 100 students. The plan called for the school to eventually serve grades one through eight, starting with one through five the first year. Sixth grade would be added in year two, and the two remaining grades the following year. Class sizes were to be limited to 20 students per class according to the charter school application. The original plan also called for the school to be located at the old Witch Hazel Elementary building, but the decision to demolish the building to make way for a new intersection prevented the site from being considered.School backers planned to secure federal funds and raise other money from private sources to go along with the state funding. The State of Oregon funds charter schools at 80% of the per-pupil rate provided to traditional schools. In June 2003, the Hillsboro school board conditionally approved City View Charter School's application, and the next month the school was approved for $350,000 in federal grants. The first $50,000 was approved for disbursement to help start the conditionally approved school, with the remaining amounts becoming available once the school opened. The school was the first charter school approved in Hillsboro. The condition set by the Hillsboro School Board was that the school and the district agree on a contract by February 2004.
