Cloverdale Elementary School

Cloverdale Elementary School operates as a modestly sized primary school in Turner, Oregon, one of the schools within Cascade SD 5. Current enrollment sits at 208 students spanning grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 35% smaller than the state mean of about 321.

Cascade SD 5 comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 2,731 students; Cloverdale Elementary School is among them.

Looking at the student body, Cloverdale Elementary School records that 85% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder consists of 11% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Marion County as a whole is about 66% White, so the school skews visibly more White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.5:1 average. Roughly 63% of students at Cloverdale Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Marion County (around 83%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Cloverdale Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 37.9%, the actual is 49.7%, a residual of +11.8 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Marion County put the typical household earns roughly $77,351 per year, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, Marion County runs 111 public schools (combined enrollment of about 53,799 students), of which Cloverdale Elementary School is one.

Turner Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.3 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 7 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Cloverdale Elementary School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 33.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Cloverdale Elementary School's enrollment has rose 40% since 2018, when it stood at 149 (now 208). Class-load math has tightened: from 19.6:1 in 2018 to 15.4:1 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, the feed for Cloverdale Elementary School typically covers science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.