Barnes Elementary School

Located at 13730 SW Walker Rd, in Beaverton, Oregon, Barnes Elementary School is a moderately sized primary school that works with 451 students (grades pre-K through 5), run under Beaverton SD 48J. Compared to the state average of about 321 students per school, that is 40% above typical.

Beaverton SD 48J comprises 56 schools with combined enrollment of 37,479 students; Barnes Elementary School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Barnes Elementary School records that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (80%). The remainder breaks down as 13% White, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Washington County as a whole is about 19% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school lists 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.5:1 average. Around 54% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Barnes Elementary School is in the bottom 10% of Oregon public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 41.6%; Barnes Elementary School posts 17.2%, -24.4 points below that line.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Washington County indicate the typical household earns roughly $107,772 per year, 48% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Barnes Elementary School is one of 136 public schools in Washington County (combined enrollment of about 79,469 students).

Nearest neighbor: Meadow Park Middle School, around 0.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Barnes Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Barnes Elementary School at 8th of 8; the average score across the group is 36.7%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Barnes Elementary School has contracted 27%, going from 619 students in 2018 to 451 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked up from 52% to 80% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 16.3:1 in 2018 to 14.0:1 today.

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