Floyd Light Middle School

Located at 10800 SE Washington St, in Portland, Oregon, Floyd Light Middle School is a reasonably sized junior high that teaches 684 students (grades 6 through 8), operated by David Douglas SD 40. By comparison, Oregon's public schools average about 494 students each, so Floyd Light Middle School sits 38% bigger than that benchmark.

Across the 14 schools in David Douglas SD 40 (8,716 students total), Floyd Light Middle School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Floyd Light Middle School records that the largest single group is Hispanic at 30%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 29% White, 14% Asian, 14% Black, 9% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 14% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.4:1. The state averages about 19.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 101% of students at Floyd Light Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Multnomah County runs at roughly 75%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Floyd Light Middle School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 23.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 29.1%.

Across the wider county, 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 the poverty rate sits near 7%. Floyd Light Middle School is one of 169 public schools in Multnomah County (combined enrollment of about 81,096 students).

Nearest neighbor: Ventura Park Elementary School, around 0.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Floyd Light Middle School comes 2nd of 5 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 28.1%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 19%: 849 students in 2018 compared to 684 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 38% to 29%.

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