Enrollment
228
Elementary
DISTRICT 371 · STATE 321
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NORTH CLACKAMAS SD 12·NCES 410883001658
Cascade Heights Public Charter School
11326 SE 47th Ave, Milwaukie, OR 97222 · (503) 653-3996 · Clackamas County
GRADES KG–08ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBCHARTERTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL228 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 51% of Oregon public elementary schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Oregon public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
15.8:1
14 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.9:1 · STATE 16.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
58%
133 students
DISTRICT 58% · STATE 76%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 26 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 26 | 11% |
| Grade 2 | 26 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 25 | 11% |
| Grade 4 | 25 | 11% |
| Grade 5 | 27 | 12% |
| Grade 6 | 26 | 11% |
| Grade 7 | 26 | 11% |
| Grade 8 | 21 | 9% |
This year's kindergarten class (26) is 24% larger than its 8th grade class (21).
Student demographics
48%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 65% · STATE 59% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
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OSAS 2024-25 . % ProficientEnglish Language Arts
35.2%
OR avg 43.0% . -1.8pp since 2023
Math
48.6%
OR avg 31.8% . +3.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the OSAS, Oregon's statewide test, about 35 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 49 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Oregon schools, those numbers are about 43 and 32. Reading and writing scores are down about 2 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
OSAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 35.2% | 48.6% |
| 2023-24 | 37.0% | 45.3% |
% Proficient, all students and all tested grades.
Source: OSAS. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
37.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
39.9%
based on OR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-2.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 38% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 40% typical for Oregon schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Oregon's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Cascade Heights Public Charter School
Cascade Heights Public Charter School's state test result (37.9% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cascade Heights Public Charter School this school | 228 | 58.3% | 37.9% |
| Kathryn Jones Harrison Elementary School Corvallis | 225 | 56.9% | 50.1% |
| Charlemagne French Immersion Elementary School Eugene | 304 | 63.8% | 76.1% |
| Camas Ridge Community Elementary Eugene | 258 | 64.7% | 42.5% |
| Oregon Trail Academy Boring | 248 | 60.5% | 63.1% |
| Terra Linda Elementary School Portland | 268 | 51.1% | 56.6% |
Matched among Oregon elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Cascade Heights Public Charter School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Oregon | In Clackamas County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 37.9% | #245 of 591 | #33 of 63 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 48.6% | #143 of 646 ▲ 37 | #21 of 66 ▲ 9 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 35.2% | #426 of 646 ▼ 40 | #58 of 66 ▼ 8 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 228 | #543 of 710 | #58 of 67 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.8:1 | #188 of 587 | #16 of 62 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 47.8% | #331 of 587 | #31 of 62 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 58.3% | #491 of 645 | #31 of 64 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +3.2% | #66 of 88 | #13 of 18 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
228
-1 (0%) vs 2020
+3% since 2010-11, when it was 222
Student : Teacher
15.8:1
was 17.6:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 228 | 14.4 | 15.8:1 | 58% (133) |
| 2023-24 | 226 | 13.4 | 16.9:1 | 27% (62) |
| 2022-23 | 224 | 13.4 | 16.7:1 | 13% (29) |
| 2020-21 | 229 | 13 | 17.6:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 221 | 12.3 | 17.9:1 | 11% (25) |
| 2015-16 | 219 | 12 | 18.3:1 | 14% (30) |
| 2010-11 | 222 | 7 | 31.7:1 | 0% (0) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Cascade Heights Public Charter School.
Since 2017-18: students up 3% (221 to 228); teachers up 17% (12.3 to 14.4).
About Cascade Heights Public Charter School
Cascade Heights Public Charter School is listed by the National Center for Education Statistics as an elementary school in Milwaukie, Oregon. The school's 228 students are in kindergarten through 8. Statewide, elementary schools in Oregon average about 321 students each.
North Clackamas SD 12 enrolls 16,837 students, and its 31 schools include Cascade Heights Public Charter School.
White students make up a majority at Cascade Heights Public Charter School, at 71%. The remaining students are 10% multiracial, 9% Asian, 6% Hispanic, and 4% Black. Pick two students at random and there is a 48% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Cascade Heights Public Charter School operates with 14.4 full-time-equivalent teachers, a ratio of about 15.8:1. For comparison, elementary schools in Oregon average 16.5:1. Cascade Heights Public Charter School reports 58% of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals. That rate is above the 50% average among public schools in Clackamas County.
The allk12 Grade for Cascade Heights Public Charter School is B-. Compared with Oregon public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 51% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
Test results at Cascade Heights Public Charter School are 2.0 points below what its free or reduced-price lunch share predicts (37.9% actual, 39.9% predicted).
Within Clackamas County, the median household income is $103,517, about 41% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 5%. In all, Clackamas County has 118 public schools and roughly 57,601 students.
Nearby, Sojourner School is about 0.7 miles away. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. Local comparison: Cascade Heights Public Charter School ranks 2nd of 8 nearby schools, at 37.9% versus a 30.0% average.
Cascade Heights Public Charter School falls in the Suburb: Large locale category, used for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more. Cascade Heights Public Charter School holds a charter, making it a public charter school.
Over 4 years, enrollment stayed close to where it was, going from 229 to 228. From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio fell from 17.6:1 to 15.8:1.
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Clackamas County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
423,975
Census ACS
Median income
$103,517
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
41%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
118
57,601 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in North Clackamas SD 12
- Adrienne C. Nelson High SchoolHigh · 1,536 students
- Clackamas High SchoolHigh · 1,280 students
- Happy Valley Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,158 students
- Putnam High SchoolHigh · 1,060 students
- Rock Creek Middle SchoolMiddle · 889 students
- Milwaukie High SchoolHigh · 874 students
Other schools in Milwaukie
- Putnam High SchoolHigh · 1,060 students
- Milwaukie High SchoolHigh · 874 students
- Alder Creek Middle SchoolMiddle · 810 students
- Rowe Middle SchoolMiddle · 747 students
- Whitcomb Elementary SchoolElementary · 415 students
- Milwaukie El Puente Elementary SchoolElementary · 408 students
Nearby schools
- Sojourner School0.7 mi · 159
- Linwood Elementary School0.7 mi · 259
- Rowe Middle School0.8 mi · 747
- Lewelling Elementary School0.8 mi · 282
- Milwaukie El Puente Elementary School1.0 mi · 408
- Milwaukie High School1.1 mi · 874
Frequently asked questions
About Cascade Heights Public Charter SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Cascade Heights Public Charter School?
Cascade Heights Public Charter School enrolls approximately 228 students in grades KG-08.
What age range does Cascade Heights Public Charter School serve?
Cascade Heights Public Charter School serves students from grade KG through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at Cascade Heights Public Charter School?
Approximately 15.8:1 students per teacher at Cascade Heights Public Charter School.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Cascade Heights Public Charter School?
At Cascade Heights Public Charter School, the student body is approximately 71% White, 6% Hispanic, 4% Black, 9% Asian, 10% Two or more.
Is Cascade Heights Public Charter School public or private?
Cascade Heights Public Charter School is a public K-12 school operated as a charter, overseen by North Clackamas SD 12.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.