Ainsworth Elementary School

Ainsworth Elementary School is a substantial elementary-level community in Portland, Oregon, part of Portland SD 1J. The school teaches 587 students in grades K through 5. That puts it 83% bigger than the typical public school in Oregon, which averages around 321 students.

Ainsworth Elementary School is one of 86 schools operated by Portland SD 1J, a district that enrolls 41,894 students overall.

On demographics, Ainsworth Elementary School lists that White students make up the majority at 56%. The remainder reads as 26% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 5% Asian, 2% Black. By comparison, Multnomah County as a whole is about 68% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 16.5:1 average. Roughly 42% of students at Ainsworth Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is below Multnomah County's rate of about 75%.

With demographic context factored in, Ainsworth Elementary School ranks in the top 10% of Oregon public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 46.2%; Ainsworth Elementary School posts 72.6%, +26.4 points above that line.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Multnomah County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $88,766 per year, 49% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Multnomah County runs 169 public schools (combined enrollment of about 81,096 students), of which Ainsworth Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Lincoln High School, roughly 0.8 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Ainsworth Elementary School comes 1st of 6 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 54.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Ainsworth Elementary School has fell 8%, going from 638 students in 2018 to 587 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment increased from 15% to 26% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 22.4:1 in 2018 to 18.7:1 in 2025.

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