Superintendent Vince Swagerty has served students since 1985 as a teacher, principal, and superintendent.  He graduated from Thurston High School in Springfield, Oregon and then earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Oregon in 1985 and his master’s degree from Portland State University in 2000.  He returns to the North Bend School District having served as the North Bend Middle School principal from 2007-2009.  Most recently, he led the Mitchell School District in eastern Oregon for five years from 2018-2023.  His wife, Valerie, is a long-time school employee serving as an educational assistant for most of her career and then as an administrative assistant in Mitchell.  His daughter, Melissa, is a 2009 North Bend graduate who currently is an educational assistant in the Wilsonville High School special education department.  His son, Matthew, recently finished his Speech Pathology program at Idaho State University and completing his clinical fellowship to obtain his Speech Pathology CCC.

Please call the North Bend District office at (541) 756-2521 or email mbrix@nbend.k12.or.us to setup a meeting.

Superintendent Report

January 9, 2025

Performances

I hope you all were able to take advantage of the wonderful performances that took place right before the break.  I want to give a major shout out to Janet Lea, Amber Yester, Sarah Massey, Sharon Rogers, and Dee Donaldson.  Each of the performances were wonderful and they reflected the extensive time, energy, and training needed to do such a fine job.

Bitty Bulldogs 2.0

We were asked to open a second preschool classroom by DELC, the organization that supports preschool programs in our region.  We have agreed to do so and we will start our second classroom on March 10th if all of the pieces fall into place between now and then.  We are currently in the process of shifting classrooms so our new preschool class will be in close proximity to our current preschool class.  The ALS classroom, Title I classroom, and our Tier 3 classroom will all shift to make room for our new Bitty Bulldogs.

Athletics

We had several teams play over the break with mixed results but moving forward, we are focused on our league matchups.  In the next month we will host wrestling and swimming but our basketball teams will spend most of their time traveling in January.

Strategic Planning

We have worked out a series of future planning dates with Performance Fact that include February 3rd and March 7th for both the core team and instructional team.  There will be additional sessions with other groups and then we hope to have them be a part of our March work session and then we intend to bring the final plan to the Board to ratify in April.  We are excited to be in the homestretch.

Budget Committee

As of the writing of this we have not had any people apply for our budget committee positions.  I would like to encourage each of you to reach out to people in your respective networks to recruit them to apply.  We would love to have a full committee when we present the budget in May.

Navigating a successful course for every student, every day, every way
1913 MEADE STREET • NORTH BEND. OREGON 97459-3432
Phone: (541) 756-2521 • Fax: (541) 756-1313
Superintendent Vince Swagerty