Free Orchards Elementary School

Set in Cornelius, Oregon, Free Orchards Elementary School is a middle-of-the-pack K-5 school, run under Hillsboro SD 1J. It caters to 385 students across grades K through 6.

Hillsboro SD 1J runs 37 schools in total, collectively educating 18,465 students. Free Orchards Elementary School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Free Orchards Elementary School reports that Hispanic students make up the majority at 62%. Other groups include 24% White, 6% multiracial, 4% Black, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 19% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 16.5:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 71% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Washington County runs at roughly 57%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Free Orchards Elementary School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 35.0%; this one comes in at 14.0%, -21.1 points off the demographic line.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Washington County put median household income runs about $107,772, 48% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Free Orchards Elementary School is one of 136 public schools in Washington County (combined enrollment of about 79,469 students).

Nearest neighbor: Cornelius Elementary School, around 0.7 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Free Orchards Elementary School comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 22.4%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Free Orchards Elementary School has changed only slightly, going from 384 students in 2018 to 385 in 2025. The White share of enrollment decreased from 34% to 24% over that span.

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