Alder Elementary School

Alder Elementary School is a medium-sized elementary school in Portland, Oregon, run under Reynolds SD 7. The school teaches 340 students in grades K through 5.

Reynolds SD 7 comprises 20 schools with combined enrollment of 9,631 students; Alder Elementary School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Alder Elementary School lists that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 57% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school reports 12% Black, 11% White, 11% Asian, 4% multiracial. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 14%.

On the resource side, Alder Elementary School lists 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.5:1 average. Roughly 99% of students at Alder Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Multnomah County's rate of about 75%.

After controlling for student poverty, Alder Elementary School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 24.2%; this one comes in at 7.1%, -17.1 points off the demographic line.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Multnomah County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $88,766 per year, about 49% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Multnomah County's 169 public schools (combined enrollment of about 81,096 students), Alder Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Patrick Lynch Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Alder Elementary School at 8th of 8; the average score across the group is 15.0%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Alder Elementary School's enrollment has contracted 32% since 2018, when it stood at 502 (now 340). The White share of enrollment fell from 17% to 11% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 17.4:1 in 2018 to 12.9:1 today.

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