Enrollment
351
Elementary
DISTRICT 285 · STATE 321
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CORVALLIS SD 509J·NCES 410348000040
Bessie Coleman Elementary School
3838 NW Walnut Blvd, Corvallis, OR 97330 · (541) 757-5958 · Benton County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL351 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 91% of Oregon public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats 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
18.5:1
19 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.1:1 · STATE 16.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
58%
202 students
DISTRICT 58% · STATE 76%
Community
0
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 | 46 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 56 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 63 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 55 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 68 | 19% |
| Grade 5 | 63 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (46) is 27% smaller than its 5th grade class (63).
Student demographics
57%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 54% · 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
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OSAS 2024-25 . % ProficientEnglish Language Arts
67.3%
OR avg 43.0% . +5.7pp since 2023
Math
62.6%
OR avg 31.8% . +0.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the OSAS, Oregon's statewide test, about 67 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 63 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 6 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
OSAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 67.3% | 62.6% |
| 2023-24 | 61.6% | 62.3% |
% 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
60.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
40.2%
based on OR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+19.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 60% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 40% 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 20 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 Bessie Coleman Elementary School
Bessie Coleman Elementary School's state test result (60.0% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bessie Coleman Elementary School this school | 351 | 57.5% | 60.0% |
| Franklin School Corvallis | 310 | 57.4% | 69.5% |
| Cooper Mountain Elementary School Beaverton | 384 | 50.5% | 49.6% |
| West Tualatin View Elementary School Portland | 304 | 50.7% | 57.4% |
| Mary Woodward Elementary School Tigard | 417 | 57.6% | 51.8% |
| Sunnyside Elementary School Clackamas | 402 | 58.2% | 33.2% |
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 Bessie Coleman Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Oregon | In Benton County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 60.0% | #60 of 591 | #3 of 12 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 62.6% | #59 of 646 ▲ 1 | #3 of 13 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 67.3% | #69 of 646 ▲ 40 | #3 of 13 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 351 | #311 of 710 | #4 of 15 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.5:1 | #438 of 587 | #10 of 12 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 56.7% | #209 of 587 | #3 of 12 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 57.5% | #506 of 645 | #7 of 13 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -19.1% | #254 of 493 | #7 of 10 |
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
351
+78 (+29%) vs 2020
-21% since 1990-91, when it was 443
Student : Teacher
18.5:1
was 16.1:1
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 | 351 | 19 | 18.5:1 | 58% (202) |
| 2023-24 | 346 | 19.4 | 17.8:1 | 27% (94) |
| 2022-23 | 345 | 18 | 19.2:1 | 22% (75) |
| 2020-21 | 273 | 17 | 16.1:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 434 | 20.1 | 21.6:1 | 20% (85) |
| 2015-16 | 431 | 19 | 22.7:1 | 19% (80) |
| 2010-11 | 419 | 18 | 23.3:1 | 16% (67) |
| 2000-01 | 422 | 19 | 22.2:1 | 6% (27) |
| 1990-91 | 443 | 18 | 24.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Bessie Coleman Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 19% (434 to 351); teachers down 5% (20.1 to 19).
About Bessie Coleman Elementary School
Students in Corvallis, Oregon, attend Bessie Coleman Elementary School, a mid-sized elementary school. The school offers kindergarten through 5 and enrolls 351 students.
Corvallis SD 509J serves 5,916 students across 13 schools.
Federal enrollment data show Bessie Coleman Elementary School is 62% White. Next come 14% Asian, 13% multiracial, and 8% Hispanic. The county population is about 79% White. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 57%.
Bessie Coleman Elementary School has 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of about 18.5:1. Elementary schools in Oregon average 16.5:1, 2.0 fewer students per teacher than here. A common income measure, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, is 58% at Bessie Coleman Elementary School. The average for public schools in Benton County is similar, at 60%.
On the allk12 Grade, Bessie Coleman Elementary School lands at A, ahead of 91% of Oregon public elementary schools.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, Bessie Coleman Elementary School is in the top 10% of Oregon schools: 60.0% actual against 40.2% predicted.
In Benton County, where the school is located, median household income comes to about $77,702, about 54% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 8%. The county has 26 public schools and about 9,268 students.
Bessie Coleman Elementary School's nearest public school is Kathryn Jones Harrison Elementary School (about 0.8 miles). In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Bessie Coleman Elementary School. Bessie Coleman Elementary School places 2nd of 9 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
On the NCES locale scale, the school is City: Small.
Enrollment in 2024-25 stood at 351, compared with 273 in 2020-21. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio increased to 18.5:1, from 16.1:1.
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Benton County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
96,303
Census ACS
Median income
$77,702
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
54%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
26
9,268 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Corvallis SD 509J
- Corvallis High SchoolHigh · 1,273 students
- Crescent Valley High SchoolHigh · 875 students
- Linus Pauling Middle SchoolMiddle · 712 students
- Cheldelin Middle SchoolMiddle · 488 students
- Garfield Elementary SchoolElementary · 378 students
- Adams Elementary SchoolElementary · 342 students
Other schools in Corvallis
- Corvallis High SchoolHigh · 1,273 students
- Crescent Valley High SchoolHigh · 875 students
- Linus Pauling Middle SchoolMiddle · 712 students
- Cheldelin Middle SchoolMiddle · 488 students
- Garfield Elementary SchoolElementary · 378 students
- Adams Elementary SchoolElementary · 342 students
Nearby schools
- Kathryn Jones Harrison Elementary School0.8 mi · 225
- Linus Pauling Middle School1.5 mi · 712
- Garfield Elementary School1.5 mi · 378
- Franklin School1.6 mi · 310
- Corvallis High School1.7 mi · 1,273
- Letitia Carson Elementary School1.8 mi · 333
Frequently asked questions
About Bessie Coleman Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Bessie Coleman Elementary School?
Bessie Coleman Elementary School enrolls approximately 351 students in grades KG-05.
Is Bessie Coleman Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Bessie Coleman Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Bessie Coleman Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Bessie Coleman Elementary School is approximately 18.5:1 (19 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Bessie Coleman Elementary School?
Student demographics at Bessie Coleman Elementary School are roughly 62% White, 8% Hispanic, 1% Black, 14% Asian, 13% Two or more.
What district is Bessie Coleman Elementary School in?
Bessie Coleman Elementary School is part of Corvallis SD 509J.
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