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What's the most underrated thing about Deep Creek - Damascus K-8 School that outsiders don't know?
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Enrollment
477
Elementary
DISTRICT 414 · STATE 321
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·GRESHAM-BARLOW SD 10J·NCES 410600000098
Deep Creek - Damascus K-8 School
15600 SE 232nd Dr, Damascus, OR 97089 · (503) 658-3171 · Clackamas County
GRADES KG–08ELEMENTARY41-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL477 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 76% of Oregon public elementary schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
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
19.2:1
25 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 20.6:1 · STATE 16.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
82%
393 students
DISTRICT 83% · STATE 76%
Community
1
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 | 41 | 9% |
| Grade 1 | 40 | 8% |
| Grade 2 | 49 | 10% |
| Grade 3 | 60 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 55 | 12% |
| Grade 5 | 59 | 12% |
| Grade 6 | 65 | 14% |
| Grade 7 | 55 | 12% |
| Grade 8 | 53 | 11% |
This year's kindergarten class (41) is 23% smaller than its 8th grade class (53).
Student demographics
41%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 66% · 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
Test scores
OSAS 2024-25 . % ProficientEnglish Language Arts
50.2%
OR avg 43.0% . -4.6pp since 2023
Math
45.0%
OR avg 31.8% . -0.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the OSAS, Oregon's statewide test, about 50 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 45 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 5 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
OSAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 50.2% | 45.0% |
| 2023-24 | 54.8% | 45.7% |
% 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
44.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
30.6%
based on OR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+14.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 45% 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%.
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 Deep Creek - Damascus K-8 School
Deep Creek - Damascus K-8 School's state test result (44.8% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deep Creek - Damascus K-8 School this school | 477 | 82.4% | 44.8% |
| Siuslaw Elementary School Florence | 519 | 84.2% | 31.6% |
| Richardson Elementary School Central Point | 500 | 78.8% | 23.9% |
| Hillcrest Elementary School North Bend | 449 | 81.5% | 57.1% |
| Central Point Elementary School Central Point | 427 | 80.1% | 25.3% |
| Faulconer-Chapman School Sheridan | 515 | 83.1% | 16.0% |
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 Deep Creek - Damascus K-8 School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Oregon | In Clackamas County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 44.8% | #166 of 591 | #23 of 63 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 45.0% | #173 of 646 ▲ 4 | #25 of 66 ▲ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 50.2% | #211 of 646 ▼ 47 | #31 of 66 ▼ 7 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 477 | #90 of 710 | #12 of 67 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 19.2:1 | #487 of 587 | #47 of 62 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 41.1% | #431 of 587 | #51 of 62 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 82.4% | #250 of 645 | #2 of 64 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +12.0% | #26 of 88 | #6 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
477
+34 (+8%) vs 2020
+30% since 2000-01, when it was 366
Student : Teacher
19.2:1
was 20.1:1
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 | 477 | 24.8 | 19.2:1 | 82% (393) |
| 2023-24 | 463 | 26.5 | 17.5:1 | 36% (168) |
| 2022-23 | 450 | 25 | 18.0:1 | 26% (119) |
| 2020-21 | 443 | 22 | 20.1:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 426 | 19.5 | 21.8:1 | 20% (84) |
| 2015-16 | 153 | 8 | 19.1:1 | 35% (53) |
| 2010-11 | 295 | 16 | 18.4:1 | 24% (70) |
| 2000-01 | 366 | 19 | 19.3:1 | 16% (57) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Deep Creek - Damascus K-8 School.
Since 2017-18: students up 12% (426 to 477); teachers up 27% (19.5 to 24.8).
About Deep Creek - Damascus K-8 School
Deep Creek - Damascus K-8 School is a mid-sized elementary school in Damascus, Oregon. The school has 477 students in 2024-25 across kindergarten through 8. By comparison, elementary schools in Oregon enroll about 321 students on average.
Deep Creek - Damascus K-8 School reports to Gresham-Barlow SD 10J, which has 20 schools and 11,345 students.
White students are 75% of those enrolled at Deep Creek - Damascus K-8 School. Beyond that, enrollment is 15% Hispanic and 8% multiracial. That is in line with Clackamas County, where about 79% of residents are White. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 41, compared with 70 nationally.
Deep Creek - Damascus K-8 School reports a ratio of 19.2 students per teacher, from 24.8 full-time-equivalent teachers. Across elementary schools in Oregon, the average ratio is 16.5:1. Lunch program data show 82% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price meals. The gap from the 50% average for public schools in Clackamas County is 32 points.
On the allk12 Grade, Deep Creek - Damascus K-8 School lands at A-, ahead of 76% of Oregon public elementary schools.
Compared with Oregon schools that have similar shares of low-income students, Deep Creek - Damascus K-8 School's results are 14.2 points above predicted: 44.8% against 30.6%.
The school is in Clackamas County, where the median household earns about $103,517 a year, about 41% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 5% of residents are in poverty. Across Clackamas County, 118 public schools serve about 57,601 students.
Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, Boring Middle School, is about 2.7 miles. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. On average proficiency, Deep Creek - Damascus K-8 School is 2nd of 8 nearby schools with test data.
Deep Creek - Damascus K-8 School has an NCES locale of Rural: Fringe.
In 2024-25, the school enrolled 477, up from 443 in 2020-21.
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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 Gresham-Barlow SD 10J
- Gresham High SchoolHigh · 1,685 students
- Sam Barlow High SchoolHigh · 1,635 students
- Metro East Web AcademyCombined · 759 students
- Gordon Russell Middle SchoolMiddle · 633 students
- Clear Creek Middle SchoolMiddle · 584 students
- North Gresham Elementary SchoolElementary · 584 students
Other schools in Damascus
- Beatrice Morrow Cannady ElementaryElementary · 506 students
Nearby schools
- Boring Middle School2.7 mi · 427
- Naas Elementary School2.7 mi · 290
- Beatrice Morrow Cannady Elementary3.0 mi · 506
- Verne A Duncan Elementary School3.1 mi · 400
- Adrienne C. Nelson High School3.5 mi · 1,536
- Springwater Environmental Sciences School3.6 mi · 203
Frequently asked questions
About Deep Creek - Damascus K-8 SchoolHow many students attend Deep Creek - Damascus K-8 School?
Deep Creek - Damascus K-8 School enrolls approximately 477 students in grades KG-08.
What grades does Deep Creek - Damascus K-8 School serve?
Deep Creek - Damascus K-8 School serves grades KG-08.
How many students per teacher at Deep Creek - Damascus K-8 School?
Approximately 19.2:1 students per teacher at Deep Creek - Damascus K-8 School.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Deep Creek - Damascus K-8 School?
At Deep Creek - Damascus K-8 School, the student body is approximately 75% White, 15% Hispanic, 0% Black, 1% Asian, 8% Two or more.
What district is Deep Creek - Damascus K-8 School in?
Deep Creek - Damascus K-8 School is part of Gresham-Barlow SD 10J.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.