East Gresham Elementary School

East Gresham Elementary School operates as a big elementary-level community in Gresham, Oregon, run under Gresham-Barlow SD 10J. Current enrollment sits at 571 students spanning grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 78% bigger than the state mean of about 321.

Within Gresham-Barlow SD 10J, which oversees 20 schools and 11,345 students, East Gresham Elementary School is one campus in the system.

On demographics, East Gresham Elementary School logs that the most-represented group is White (41%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest looks like 40% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 4% Black, 3% Asian. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 68%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.0:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.5:1, putting East Gresham Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. Around 83% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Multnomah County (around 75%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, East Gresham Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 30.4%, the actual is 25.4%, a residual of -5.0 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Multnomah County put the typical household earns roughly $88,766 per year, roughly 49% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Multnomah County's 169 public schools (combined enrollment of about 81,096 students), East Gresham Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Dexter McCarty Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), East Gresham Elementary School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 28.9%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 48%: 387 students in 2018 compared to 571 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 46% to 40% across the same window.

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