Butler Creek Elementary School

As a substantial elementary-level community in Gresham, Oregon, Butler Creek Elementary School caters to 509 students from grades K through 5, one of the schools within Centennial SD 28J. By comparison, Oregon's public schools average about 321 students each, so Butler Creek Elementary School sits 59% larger than that benchmark.

Butler Creek Elementary School is one of 9 schools operated by Centennial SD 28J, a district that works with 5,304 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Butler Creek Elementary School records that the most-represented group is White (44%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest comes out to 20% Hispanic, 16% Asian, 11% multiracial, 7% Black. The wider county runs roughly 68% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.3:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.5:1, putting Butler Creek Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. Around 97% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Multnomah County (around 75%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Butler Creek Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 24.8%, the actual is 35.5%, a residual of +10.7 points.

In the surrounding community, Multnomah County reports that median household income runs about $88,766, roughly 49% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Multnomah County runs 169 public schools (combined enrollment of about 81,096 students), of which Butler Creek Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Pleasant Valley Elementary School, roughly 1.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Butler Creek Elementary School comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 23.1%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 8%: 556 students in 2018 compared to 509 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share declined from 57% to 44%.

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