Boones Ferry Primary School

Boones Ferry Primary School operates as an average-sized elementary school in Wilsonville, Oregon, part of West Linn-Wilsonville SD 3J. Current enrollment sits at 427 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 33% larger than the typical public school in Oregon, which averages around 321 students.

West Linn-Wilsonville SD 3J comprises 17 schools with combined enrollment of 8,842 students; Boones Ferry Primary School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Boones Ferry Primary School logs that 59% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 24% Hispanic, 11% multiracial, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 79% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.5:1 average. Roughly 44% of students at Boones Ferry Primary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Boones Ferry Primary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 45.5%; this one delivers 37.8%.

In the surrounding community, Clackamas County reports that median household earnings sit near $103,517, about 41% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, Clackamas County runs 118 public schools (combined enrollment of about 57,601 students), of which Boones Ferry Primary School is one.

Inza R Wood Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Boones Ferry Primary School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 43.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Over the past 7-year window. Boones Ferry Primary School's enrollment has edged down 24% since 2018, when it stood at 560 (now 427). Over the same period, the White share decreased from 67% to 59%.

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