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Enrollment
587
Elementary
DISTRICT 349 · STATE 321
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PORTLAND SD 1J·NCES 411004000866
Ainsworth Elementary School
2425 SW Vista Ave, Portland, OR 97201 · (503) 916-6288 · Multnomah County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL587 STUDENTS
A+
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Scored higher than 98% of Oregon public elementary schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Oregon public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
18.7:1
31 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.1:1 · STATE 16.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
42%
247 students
DISTRICT 59% · STATE 76%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 87 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 107 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 89 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 93 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 104 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 107 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (87) is 19% smaller than its 5th grade class (107).
Student demographics
60%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 65% · STATE 59% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
OSAS 2024-25 . % ProficientEnglish Language Arts
78.5%
OR avg 43.0% . -1.3pp since 2023
Math
76.4%
OR avg 31.8% . +4.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the OSAS, Oregon's statewide test, about 79 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 76 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Oregon schools, those numbers are about 43 and 32. Reading and writing scores are down about 1 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
OSAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 78.5% | 76.4% |
| 2023-24 | 79.8% | 72.3% |
% Proficient, all students and all tested grades.
Source: OSAS. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of OR schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
72.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
46.2%
based on OR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+26.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 73% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 46% typical for Oregon schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 26 points, placing it in Oregon's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Ainsworth Elementary School
Ainsworth Elementary School's state test result (72.6% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ainsworth Elementary School this school | 587 | 42.1% | 72.6% |
| Lowrie Primary School Wilsonville | 482 | 42.9% | 52.8% |
| Boeckman Creek Primary School Wilsonville | 488 | 44.1% | 45.9% |
| Boones Ferry Primary School Wilsonville | 427 | 44.0% | 37.8% |
| Sunnyside Environmental School Portland | 461 | 41.6% | 51.5% |
| Bridger Creative Science School Portland | 474 | 42.2% | 44.3% |
Matched among Oregon elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Ainsworth Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Oregon | In Multnomah County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 72.6% | #12 of 591 | #6 of 78 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 76.4% | #14 of 646 ▲ 10 | #9 of 109 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 78.5% | #18 of 646 ▼ 3 | #10 of 109 ▼ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 587 | #21 of 710 | #2 of 110 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.7:1 | #448 of 587 | #80 of 101 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 60.3% | #147 of 587 | #63 of 101 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 42.1% | #595 of 645 | #72 of 103 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -8.0% | #420 of 493 | #78 of 89 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
587
-11 (-2%) vs 2020
+24% since 1990-91, when it was 474
Student : Teacher
18.7:1
was 19.3:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 587 | 31.5 | 18.7:1 | 42% (247) |
| 2023-24 | 585 | 29.1 | 20.1:1 | 14% (83) |
| 2022-23 | 563 | 28.4 | 19.8:1 | 9% (52) |
| 2020-21 | 598 | 31 | 19.3:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 638 | 28.5 | 22.4:1 | 8% (50) |
| 2015-16 | 599 | 26 | 23.0:1 | 6% (33) |
| 2010-11 | 551 | 25 | 22.0:1 | 5% (30) |
| 2000-01 | 552 | 26 | 21.2:1 | 7% (36) |
| 1990-91 | 474 | 19 | 24.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Ainsworth Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 8% (638 to 587); teachers up 10% (28.5 to 31.5).
About Ainsworth Elementary School
Ainsworth Elementary School operates as a large elementary school in Portland, Oregon. The school offers kindergarten through 5 and enrolls 587 students. The school is 83% bigger than the average for elementary schools in Oregon.
The district, Portland SD 1J, has 41,894 students enrolled across 86 schools.
At Ainsworth Elementary School, 56% of students are White. It is also 26% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 5% Asian, and 2% Black. For comparison, the population of Multnomah County is roughly 68% White. The diversity index for Ainsworth Elementary School is 60%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
The school's 31.5 full-time-equivalent teachers translate to a student-to-teacher ratio of 18.7:1. Elementary schools in Oregon have an average ratio of 16.5:1. At Ainsworth Elementary School, 42% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. The rate at public schools in Multnomah County averages 75%, higher than here.
Ainsworth Elementary School earns an A+ on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 98% of Oregon public elementary schools.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, Ainsworth Elementary School is in the top 10% of Oregon schools: 72.6% actual against 46.2% predicted.
Census data for Multnomah County show the median household earns about $88,766 a year, 49% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Public schools in Multnomah County number 169, with about 81,096 students.
Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, Lincoln High School, is about 0.8 miles. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. On average proficiency, Ainsworth Elementary School is 1st of 6 nearby schools with test data.
NCES describes the area around Ainsworth Elementary School as City: Large, meaning inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment was essentially flat over 4 years: 598 in 2020-21, 587 in 2024-25.
Use the discussion section to ask about homework, tutoring, and testing dates at Ainsworth Elementary School. You can also rate the school on this page.
Multnomah County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
801,477
Census ACS
Median income
$88,766
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
49%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
169
81,096 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Portland SD 1J
- Grant High SchoolHigh · 2,149 students
- Franklin High SchoolHigh · 1,807 students
- Leodis V. McDaniel High SchoolHigh · 1,681 students
- Ida B. Wells-Barnett High SchoolHigh · 1,650 students
- Lincoln High SchoolHigh · 1,611 students
- Roosevelt High SchoolHigh · 1,450 students
Other schools in Portland
- David Douglas High SchoolHigh · 2,756 students
- Westview High SchoolHigh · 2,423 students
- Grant High SchoolHigh · 2,149 students
- Sunset High SchoolHigh · 1,812 students
- Franklin High SchoolHigh · 1,807 students
- Leodis V. McDaniel High SchoolHigh · 1,681 students
Other Ainsworth Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Ainsworth Elementary. Ainsworth Elementary School is the largest of the 2.
- AINSWORTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOLAINSWORTH, NE · 138 students
Nearby schools
- Lincoln High School0.8 mi · 1,611
- Emerson School1.1 mi · 130
- Metropolitan Learning Center1.2 mi · 319
- Chapman Elementary School1.6 mi · 353
- Bridlemile Elementary School1.7 mi · 418
- The Cottonwood School of Civics and Science1.8 mi · 198
Frequently asked questions
About Ainsworth Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Ainsworth Elementary School?
Ainsworth Elementary School enrolls approximately 587 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Ainsworth Elementary School serve?
Ainsworth Elementary School serves grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Ainsworth Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Ainsworth Elementary School is approximately 18.7:1 (31 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Ainsworth Elementary School?
At Ainsworth Elementary School, the student body is approximately 56% White, 26% Hispanic, 2% Black, 5% Asian, 10% Two or more.
What district is Ainsworth Elementary School in?
Ainsworth Elementary School is part of Portland SD 1J.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.