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How has Ardenwald Elementary School changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
396
Elementary
DISTRICT 371 · STATE 321
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NORTH CLACKAMAS SD 12·NCES 410883000070
Ardenwald Elementary School
8950 SE 36th St, Milwaukie, OR 97222 · (503) 353-5320 · Clackamas County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL396 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 49% of Oregon public elementary schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+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
16.3:1
24 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.9:1 · STATE 16.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
58%
231 students
DISTRICT 58% · 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 | 62 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 67 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 64 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 67 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 72 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 64 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (62) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (64).
Student demographics
54%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
47.8%
OR avg 43.0% . +8.9pp since 2023
Math
35.9%
OR avg 31.8% . +2.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the OSAS, Oregon's statewide test, about 48 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 36 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Oregon schools, those numbers are about 43 and 32. Reading and writing scores are up about 9 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
OSAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 47.8% | 35.9% |
| 2023-24 | 38.9% | 33.3% |
% Proficient, all students and all tested grades.
Source: OSAS. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
37.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
39.9%
based on OR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-2.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 37% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 40% typical for Oregon schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Oregon's top nor bottom 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 Ardenwald Elementary School
Ardenwald Elementary School's state test result (37.2% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ardenwald Elementary School this school | 396 | 58.3% | 37.2% |
| Sunset School Coos Bay | 380 | 56.3% | 14.5% |
| Verne A Duncan Elementary School Happy Valley | 400 | 58.0% | 39.0% |
| Gaffney Lane Elementary School Oregon City | 419 | 54.4% | 31.1% |
| Letitia Carson Elementary School Corvallis | 333 | 57.4% | 40.1% |
| Bilquist Elementary School Milwaukie | 373 | 58.4% | 22.1% |
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 Ardenwald Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Oregon | In Clackamas County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 37.2% | #257 of 591 | #35 of 63 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 35.9% | #291 of 646 ▲ 24 | #40 of 66 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 47.8% | #241 of 646 ▲ 109 | #35 of 66 ▲ 10 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 396 | #214 of 710 | #30 of 67 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.3:1 | #233 of 587 | #22 of 62 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 53.8% | #257 of 587 | #25 of 62 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 58.3% | #490 of 645 | #30 of 64 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -8.5% | #411 of 493 | #34 of 43 |
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
396
+6 (+2%) vs 2020
+26% since 1990-91, when it was 314
Student : Teacher
16.3:1
was 17.0:1
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 | 396 | 24.3 | 16.3:1 | 58% (231) |
| 2023-24 | 402 | 22.9 | 17.5:1 | 70% (283) |
| 2022-23 | 407 | 21 | 19.3:1 | 70% (283) |
| 2020-21 | 390 | 23 | 17.0:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 433 | 22.8 | 19.0:1 | 46% (201) |
| 2015-16 | 486 | 23 | 21.1:1 | 54% (262) |
| 2010-11 | 454 | 22 | 20.6:1 | 58% (264) |
| 2000-01 | 299 | 15 | 19.9:1 | 38% (114) |
| 1990-91 | 314 | 16 | 19.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Ardenwald Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 9% (433 to 396); teachers up 6% (22.8 to 24.3).
About Ardenwald Elementary School
Ardenwald Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school for students in Milwaukie, Oregon. It offers kindergarten through 5 and has 396 students enrolled. It has 23% more students than the average for elementary schools in Oregon (about 321).
Ardenwald Elementary School belongs to North Clackamas SD 12, a district of 31 schools and 16,837 students.
More than half of the students at Ardenwald Elementary School are White (64%). The remaining shares are 19% Hispanic and 12% multiracial. Census estimates put the White share of Clackamas County's population at about 79%. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Ardenwald Elementary School scores 54%.
Ardenwald Elementary School has 24.3 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff and a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.3:1. The 16.5:1 average for elementary schools in Oregon is close to this figure. At Ardenwald Elementary School, 58% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. The gap from the 50% average for public schools in Clackamas County is 8 points.
On the allk12 Grade, Ardenwald Elementary School lands at B-, ahead of 49% of Oregon public elementary schools.
After adjusting for student poverty, Ardenwald Elementary School lands between the top and bottom 10% of Oregon schools. Its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 37.2%; the prediction is 39.9%.
Clackamas County is the school's county. There, median household income comes to about $103,517, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 41%, and roughly 5% of residents are in poverty. There are 118 public schools in the county, enrolling about 57,601, Ardenwald Elementary School among them.
Duniway Elementary School sits about 0.8 miles from Ardenwald Elementary School. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Among the 8 closest schools with test data, this one included, Ardenwald Elementary School ranks 5th on average proficiency.
For locale, NCES codes Ardenwald Elementary School as Suburb: Large.
The school's size has been steady, with 390 students in 2020-21 and 396 in 2024-25.
Use the discussion section to ask about homework, tutoring, and testing dates at Ardenwald Elementary School. You can also rate the school on this page.
Clackamas County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
423,975
Census ACS
Median income
$103,517
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
41%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
118
57,601 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in North Clackamas SD 12
- Adrienne C. Nelson High SchoolHigh · 1,536 students
- Clackamas High SchoolHigh · 1,280 students
- Happy Valley Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,158 students
- Putnam High SchoolHigh · 1,060 students
- Rock Creek Middle SchoolMiddle · 889 students
- Milwaukie High SchoolHigh · 874 students
Other schools in Milwaukie
- Putnam High SchoolHigh · 1,060 students
- Milwaukie High SchoolHigh · 874 students
- Alder Creek Middle SchoolMiddle · 810 students
- Rowe Middle SchoolMiddle · 747 students
- Whitcomb Elementary SchoolElementary · 415 students
- Milwaukie El Puente Elementary SchoolElementary · 408 students
Nearby schools
- Duniway Elementary School0.8 mi · 387
- Lewelling Elementary School0.9 mi · 282
- Lewis Elementary School1.1 mi · 267
- Milwaukie El Puente Elementary School1.2 mi · 408
- Sellwood Middle School1.3 mi · 575
- Cascade Heights Public Charter School1.3 mi · 228
Frequently asked questions
About Ardenwald Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Ardenwald Elementary School?
Ardenwald Elementary School enrolls approximately 396 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Ardenwald Elementary School serve?
Ardenwald Elementary School serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Ardenwald Elementary School?
Approximately 16.3:1 students per teacher at Ardenwald Elementary School.
What is the student diversity at Ardenwald Elementary School?
Student demographics at Ardenwald Elementary School are roughly 64% White, 19% Hispanic, 2% Black, 2% Asian, 12% Two or more.
Who oversees Ardenwald Elementary School?
Ardenwald Elementary School is overseen by North Clackamas SD 12 in Clackamas County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.