Bush Elementary School

Bush Elementary School is a K-5 school of small scale in Salem, Oregon, overseen by Salem-Keizer SD 24J, enrolling 255 students in grades K through 5. By comparison, Oregon's public schools average about 321 students each, so Bush Elementary School sits 21% below that benchmark.

Salem-Keizer SD 24J runs 65 schools in total, collectively educating 37,776 students. Bush Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Bush Elementary School records that Hispanic students make up the majority at 58%; the rest looks like 27% White, 7% multiracial, 6% Pacific Islander. By comparison, Marion County as a whole is about 29% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Bush Elementary School logs 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.1:1. The state averages around 16.5:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 89% of students at Bush Elementary School qualify 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, Bush Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 28.0%, the actual is 16.9%, a residual of -11.2 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Marion County) reports that median household earnings sit near $77,351, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Marion County runs 111 public schools (combined enrollment of about 53,799 students), of which Bush Elementary School is one.

Richmond Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Bush Elementary School. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Bush Elementary School ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 27.7%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Over the past 7-year window. Bush Elementary School's enrollment has contracted 22% since 2018, when it stood at 328 (now 255). The White share of enrollment declined from 34% to 27% over that span.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the feed for Bush Elementary School typically covers open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.