da Vinci Middle School

Set in Portland, Oregon, da Vinci Middle School is a medium-sized intermediate school, operated by Portland SD 1J. It works with 427 students across grades 6 through 8.

Portland SD 1J runs 86 schools in total, collectively educating 41,894 students. da Vinci Middle School is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, da Vinci Middle School lists that White students make up the majority at 59%. The remainder breaks down as 13% Hispanic, 12% multiracial, 7% Black. By comparison, Multnomah County as a whole is about 68% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, da Vinci Middle School has 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 19.1:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 42% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Multnomah County (around 75%), the school's rate is south of typical.

With demographic context factored in, da Vinci Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 46.4%, the actual is 45.4%, a residual of -1.0 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Multnomah County indicate the typical household earns roughly $88,766 per year, 49% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, Multnomah County runs 169 public schools (combined enrollment of about 81,096 students), of which da Vinci Middle School is one.

Le Monde French Immersion Public Charter School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts da Vinci Middle School at 6th of 7; the average score across the group is 53.4%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at da Vinci Middle School has decreased 7%, going from 457 students in 2018 to 427 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share edged down from 72% to 59%.

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