Butternut Creek Elementary School

Set in Aloha, Oregon, Butternut Creek Elementary School is a moderately sized elementary-level community, overseen by Hillsboro SD 1J. It serves 332 students across grades K through 6.

Butternut Creek Elementary School is one of 37 schools operated by Hillsboro SD 1J, a district that works with 18,465 students overall.

On demographics, Butternut Creek Elementary School shows that 43% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school logs 37% Hispanic, 11% multiracial, 6% Asian. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 64%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 16.5:1 average. Roughly 67% of students at Butternut Creek Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Washington County (around 57%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Butternut Creek Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 36.5%; this one delivers 26.9%.

In the broader community, Washington County reports that the typical household earns roughly $107,772 per year, about 48% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Butternut Creek Elementary School is one of 136 public schools in Washington County (combined enrollment of about 79,469 students).

Kinnaman Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Butternut Creek Elementary School comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 35.2%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Butternut Creek Elementary School has fell 18%, going from 405 students in 2018 to 332 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 53% to 43% across the same window.

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