Evergreen Elementary School

Evergreen Elementary School is a reasonably sized elementary campus in Cave Junction, Oregon, overseen by Three Rivers/Josephine County SD. The school teaches 378 students in grades K through 4.

Three Rivers/Josephine County SD runs 17 schools in total, collectively educating 4,440 students. Evergreen Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Evergreen Elementary School logs that White students make up the majority at 70%. Beyond that, the school records 16% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 3% Native American. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 86%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.9:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.5:1, putting Evergreen Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 101% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Josephine County runs at roughly 84%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Evergreen Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 23.4%, the actual is 28.7%, a residual of +5.4 points.

Across the wider county, Josephine County reports that median household income runs about $60,098, about 20% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Josephine County's 28 public schools (combined enrollment of about 9,944 students), Evergreen Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Kalmiopsis Community Arts High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Evergreen Elementary School comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 28.4%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Five-year trend. Evergreen Elementary School's enrollment has shrank 4% since 2018, when it stood at 393 (now 378). The White share of enrollment edged down from 78% to 70% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 23.1:1 in 2018 to 18.9:1 today.

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