Art Rutkin Elementary School

Art Rutkin Elementary School operates as a cozy K-5 school in Tigard, Oregon, one of the schools within Tigard-Tualatin SD 23J. Current enrollment sits at 131 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 59% below the typical public school in Oregon, which averages around 321 students.

Art Rutkin Elementary School is one of 19 schools operated by Tigard-Tualatin SD 23J, a district that enrolls 11,342 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Art Rutkin Elementary School logs that the most-represented group is White (50%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 21% Asian, 15% multiracial, 11% Hispanic, 4% Black. By comparison, Washington County as a whole is about 64% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Art Rutkin Elementary School has 9 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.8:1. The state averages around 16.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 58% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Art Rutkin Elementary School sits in the top 10% of Oregon schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 40.0%; actual is 68.3%, +28.3 points clear of the demographic baseline.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Washington County put median household earnings sit near $107,772, 48% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Washington County's 136 public schools (combined enrollment of about 79,469 students), Art Rutkin Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Mountainside High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Art Rutkin Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Art Rutkin Elementary School at 1st of 9; the average score across the group is 47.9%.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

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