Fir Grove Elementary School

Fir Grove Elementary School operates as a medium-sized primary school in Beaverton, Oregon, overseen by Beaverton SD 48J. Current enrollment sits at 337 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

Beaverton SD 48J comprises 56 schools with combined enrollment of 37,479 students; Fir Grove Elementary School is among them.

Looking at the student body, Fir Grove Elementary School shows that 48% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder breaks down as 32% Hispanic, 11% multiracial, 7% Asian, 2% Black. By comparison, Washington County as a whole is about 64% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Fir Grove Elementary School reports 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.5:1 average. Roughly 75% of students at Fir Grove Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Washington County (around 57%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Fir Grove Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.5%, the actual is 44.0%, a residual of +10.4 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Washington County) logs that median household earnings sit near $107,772, roughly 48% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Washington County runs 136 public schools (combined enrollment of about 79,469 students), of which Fir Grove Elementary School is one.

Highland Park Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Fir Grove Elementary School. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Fir Grove Elementary School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 42.5%.

Fir Grove Elementary School operates from a city-core location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 25%: 447 students in 2018 compared to 337 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment increased from 27% to 32% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 16.2:1 in 2018 to 13.8:1 in 2025.

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