Oak Creek Elementary is moving to Roost
Our new parent directory — private by design, and built to carry your family from kindergarten all the way through high school.
Getting in
Returning Oak Creek families
Your student is already in Roost. We brought last year's directory over, so sign in with the email address the school has on file, accept the terms, and confirm what you'd like shared. Most families are done in about a minute.
New and kindergarten families
If your family is new to Oak Creek this year, your student is starting kindergarten, or you weren't in the directory last year, you won't find your student yet. Enter your email at the same link and you'll be walked through a short request form — an Oak Creek directory admin will get you set up. You only do it once, and your account carries forward from there.
Classroom assignments
Roost won't show classroom assignments until the district roster arrives in October. Everything else works right now — you don't have to wait to get started.
Questions? Email the PTO at oakcreekelementarypto@gmail.com and we'll get you sorted.
The part you'll actually use
Look up the family behind the name your student keeps mentioning. Sort out a ride. Put together a birthday invite list without a chain of texts hunting for the right phone number.
This is the plain, boring thing a directory is for, and at elementary school it's most of what you'll use it for. Roost's version is searchable, current, and on your phone.
Your student's class has its own discussion once your student's teacher is set in Roost, just for the families in that class. Ask about the field trip, plan a playdate, find the lost jacket. Clubs, committees and shared circles get one too. School admins and the PTO can moderate, blocks carry over, and you can mute any discussion you don't want alerts from.
Circles — your own private groups
The soccer carpool. The room parents. The four families you actually plan weekends with.
You create the group, you choose who's in it, and nobody else at the school can see it or ask to join. A Circle isn't a school group with a sign-up sheet — it's your list, and it stays yours.
Fill the roles without the cold ask
Tell Roost what you're interested in and roughly when you're free. As families fill that in, each committee lead sees the parents most likely to say yes for their open roles, and can reach them in a tap — without ever seeing anyone's contact information.
For events, jobs like setup, the bake sale table, and cleanup become time slots parents claim themselves. The sign-up sheet, minus the spreadsheet.
Trusted Help — sitters and tutors from our own district
Babysitters, tutors, coaches, and mentors, from inside the school community — recommended by parents you know rather than found on the internet.
And it reaches beyond our building. Lake Oswego Middle School and Lake Oswego High School are both on Roost. Their students are the ones who actually babysit and tutor around here, and they can extend their listings to Oak Creek families — each one arriving with a badge showing which school the family is from, so it's clearly a real family in your district.
Roost doesn't vet listings. Every entry is either self-submitted or recommended by another parent. Treat each one like an introduction from a friend: meet, ask questions, trust your judgment.
See who families trust. Every listing shows how many families are interested and how many recommend it, and anyone can see those counts. Recommending someone is one tap, including a teen whose parent listed them.
Talk it over. Trusted Help has its own discussion for Oak Creek families, for asking each other who they use and what the going rate is. A vote in the room asks whether it should open up to families at the other Lake Oswego schools on Roost, and everyone can see the tally.
One account, every school, every year
Nothing resets in August. Your account carries from kindergarten to first grade to fifth — no re-registering, no re-entering the same phone number every fall.
And when your fifth grader starts at Lake Oswego Middle School, the same account follows them there. A sibling at another Lake Oswego school that's on Roost is the same login too: one family, one password.
Your information, your call
Your family is included in the directory by default. When you first sign in you'll accept the terms, and from there you control what's shared — email, phone, and address each have their own switch. You can be visible to everyone at Oak Creek, only to families in your student's grade, or not listed at all.
Privacy is enforced at the database, not just in the app. Roost doesn't sell data, doesn't run ads, and doesn't share your information outside your school community.
Questions
Is this replacing ParentSquare?
No. ParentSquare is still where the school and your student's teacher communicate with you — attendance, announcements from the office. Roost is the parent-to-parent and PTO-to-parent side: the directory, volunteering, and community. The two work side by side.
What happens to our old directory?
The board has moved to Roost for this year. Setting up your Roost account is how you'll be in the directory going forward.
Why can't I find my student?
If your family was in last year's directory, your student is already there — try the other email address your family uses with the school. If you're new to Oak Creek, your student is starting kindergarten, or you weren't listed last year, request access at the link above and an admin will add your family. Either way you only do it once. Classroom assignments fill in when the district roster arrives in October.
Am I automatically listed?
Yes — your family is included by default, the same as in past years. You choose what's shared once you sign in, and you can hide individual fields or opt out of being listed entirely.
I have kids at more than one school.
One Roost account covers your whole family. Each Lake Oswego school that uses Roost shows up under the same login.
Do I have to use the app?
No. Roost works in any browser at app.roost.directory. The app is just faster.
I signed in and it didn't recognize my email.
Try the other email address your family uses with the school. If you're still stuck, email the PTO at oakcreekelementarypto@gmail.com.
I have a question that isn't here.
Email the PTO at oakcreekelementarypto@gmail.com.