Blue Mountain School, a Free Democratic School in Cottage Grove, Oregon Blue Mountain School is an innovative environment designed to foster the education and development of free and responsible citizens. We're a publicly funded, non-profit learning community open to students age 5 to 19. BMS provides students with the right to grow naturally and learn in a non-coercive, democratic environment.
Every student has the right to participate in all aspects of governing the school community.
In the School Meeting, laws are approved and agreements made which are then placed into the Blue Mountain School Lawbook. Motions are considered to spend money on resources and projects deemed important by one or more students in the school. Each student and staff member in the School Meeting has one vote. Students, staff, and parents and guardians each have one vote in the Assembly decision-making process. Blue Mountain School is located seven miles east of Cottage Grove , Oregon, in a beautiful rural setting surrounded by a county park and BLM forest lands.