Eyre Elementary School

Eyre Elementary School operates as a heavily attended elementary campus in Salem, Oregon, overseen by Salem-Keizer SD 24J. Current enrollment sits at 538 students spanning grades K through 5. By comparison, Oregon's public schools average about 321 students each, so Eyre Elementary School sits 68% larger than that benchmark.

Across the 65 schools in Salem-Keizer SD 24J (37,776 students total), Eyre Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Eyre Elementary School shows that 69% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder consists of 20% White, 7% Pacific Islander, 2% multiracial. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 29%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.9:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.5:1, putting Eyre Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 89% of students at Eyre Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Eyre Elementary School is in the bottom 10% of Oregon public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 28.0%; Eyre Elementary School posts 10.8%, -17.2 points below that line.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Marion County indicate median household income runs about $77,351, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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 Eyre Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Houck Middle School, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Eyre Elementary School. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Eyre Elementary School ranks 7th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 13.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 3%: 553 students in 2018 compared to 538 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 19.6:1 in 2018 to 20.9:1 today.

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