These are Oregon's top 40 schools for 2021 (Rankings)

School, like everything else, has become a very different notion over the last six months, as "independent study" and "recess," at least the backyard variety thereof, have become full-on disciplines. Even so, students will ostensibly one day return to classrooms, which will give the state's top schools another chance to shine. With that, we tapped the expertise of Niche.com, the Pittsburgh researcher, to ascertain which institutions — among all of Oregon's public and private high schools, middle…