Clatskanie Elementary School
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Test scores
OSAS 2024-25 . % ProficientWhat this means: On the OSAS, Oregon's statewide test, about 38 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 29 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 1 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 28% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 31% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Clatskanie Elementary School
Clatskanie Elementary School is one of the middle-of-the-pack K-5 schools in Clatskanie, Oregon, one of the schools within Clatskanie SD 6J, with 387 students on its rolls from grades K through 6. That puts it 21% above the typical public school in Oregon, which averages around 321 students.
Clatskanie Elementary School is one of 2 schools operated by Clatskanie SD 6J, a district that enrolls 694 students overall.
On the student-mix side, Clatskanie Elementary School shows that nearly all students (83%) are White. Beyond that, the school records 9% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Columbia County as a whole.
On the resource side, Clatskanie Elementary School shows 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.4:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 16.5:1 average. About 80% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Columbia County runs at roughly 62%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Clatskanie Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 31.5%, the actual is 27.6%, a residual of -3.9 points.
In the area at large, the surrounding county (Columbia County) logs that median household income runs about $87,458, about 20% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Clatskanie Elementary School is one of 23 public schools in Columbia County (combined enrollment of about 6,932 students).
Nearest neighbor: Clatskanie Middle/High School, around 0.2 miles off. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Clatskanie Elementary School at 6th of 7; the average score across the group is 39.3%.
Clatskanie Elementary School operates from a rural location.
Five-year trend. Clatskanie Elementary School's enrollment has rose 6% since 2018, when it stood at 364 (now 387). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 20.4:1 in 2018 to 17.4:1 today.
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