Boise-Eliot Elementary School

Boise-Eliot Elementary School operates as a middle-of-the-pack K-5 school in Portland, Oregon, one of the schools within Portland SD 1J. Current enrollment sits at 313 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

Boise-Eliot Elementary School is one of 86 schools operated by Portland SD 1J, a district that educates 41,894 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Boise-Eliot Elementary School reports that the largest single group is Black at 45%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder comes out to 22% White, 18% Hispanic, 13% multiracial. By comparison, Multnomah County as a whole is about 6% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school reports having 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.2:1. The state averages around 16.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 107% of students at Boise-Eliot Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Multnomah County (around 75%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Multnomah County) logs that median household earnings sit near $88,766, about 49% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Boise-Eliot Elementary School is one of 169 public schools in Multnomah County (combined enrollment of about 81,096 students).

Nearest neighbor: Kairos PDX, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Boise-Eliot Elementary School.

Boise-Eliot Elementary School operates from an urban location.

Over the past 7-year window. Boise-Eliot Elementary School's enrollment has decreased 35% since 2018, when it stood at 483 (now 313). Black enrollment moved from 56% to 45% across the same window.

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