Enrollment
225
Elementary
DISTRICT 214 · STATE 321
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·THREE RIVERS/JOSEPHINE COUNTY SD·NCES 410690000467
Fruitdale Elementary School
1560 Bill Baker Way, Grants Pass, OR 97527 · (541) 476-2276 · Josephine County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL225 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 88% of Oregon public elementary schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Oregon public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
15.0:1
15 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 18.0:1 · STATE 16.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
225 students
DISTRICT 101% · STATE 76%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 25 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 42 | 19% |
| Grade 2 | 30 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 48 | 21% |
| Grade 4 | 37 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 43 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (25) is 42% smaller than its 5th grade class (43).
Student demographics
44%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 37% · STATE 59% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
OSAS 2024-25 . % ProficientEnglish Language Arts
59.4%
OR avg 43.0% . +1.8pp since 2023
Math
57.8%
OR avg 31.8% . +9.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the OSAS, Oregon's statewide test, about 59 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 58 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Oregon schools, those numbers are about 43 and 32. Reading and writing scores are up about 2 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 9 points.
OSAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 59.4% | 57.8% |
| 2023-24 | 57.6% | 48.5% |
% Proficient, all students and all tested grades.
Source: OSAS. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of OR schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
51.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
23.8%
based on OR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+28.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 52% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 24% typical for Oregon schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 28 points, placing it in Oregon's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Fruitdale Elementary School
Fruitdale Elementary School's state test result (51.8% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fruitdale Elementary School this school | 225 | 100.0% | 51.8% |
| Ft Vannoy Elementary School Grants Pass | 239 | 100.0% | 22.0% |
| Patrick Elementary School Gold Hill | 255 | 97.6% | 26.6% |
| Madrona Elementary School Grants Pass | 281 | 98.9% | 23.8% |
| Joseph Conger Elementary School Klamath Falls | 269 | 100.0% | 29.3% |
| Bonanza Elementary School Bonanza | 206 | 92.7% | 29.8% |
Matched among Oregon elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Fruitdale Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Oregon | In Josephine County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 51.8% | #111 of 591 | #1 of 12 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 57.8% | #82 of 646 ▲ 72 | #1 of 12 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 59.4% | #128 of 646 ▲ 6 | #1 of 12 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 225 | #554 of 710 | #11 of 14 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.0:1 | #126 of 587 | #1 of 12 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 43.9% | #388 of 587 | #4 of 12 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 100% | #77 of 645 | #3 of 12 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -38.9% | #23 of 493 | #1 of 11 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
225
-75 (-25%) vs 2020
-16% since 1990-91, when it was 268
Student : Teacher
15.0:1
was 16.7:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 225 | 15 | 15.0:1 | 100% (225) |
| 2023-24 | 258 | 14 | 18.4:1 | 76% (195) |
| 2022-23 | 268 | 18 | 14.9:1 | 58% (156) |
| 2020-21 | 300 | 18 | 16.7:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 368 | 17.9 | 20.6:1 | 70% (257) |
| 2015-16 | 336 | 17 | 19.8:1 | 70% (235) |
| 2010-11 | 318 | 13 | 24.5:1 | 72% (229) |
| 2000-01 | 274 | 14 | 19.6:1 | 70% (191) |
| 1990-91 | 268 | 12 | 22.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Fruitdale Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 39% (368 to 225); teachers down 16% (17.9 to 15).
About Fruitdale Elementary School
Families in Grants Pass, Oregon, are served by Fruitdale Elementary School, a small elementary school. The school offers kindergarten through 5 and enrolls 225 students. On average, elementary schools in Oregon enroll around 321, and this school is 30% below that mark.
Three Rivers/Josephine County SD is made up of 17 schools with 4,440 students in all.
Federal enrollment data show Fruitdale Elementary School is 72% White. The next largest groups are 18% Hispanic and 6% multiracial. The school's White share is 13 points below the 86% share among Josephine County residents. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 44%.
Classroom staffing at Fruitdale Elementary School totals 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 15.0:1. The average for elementary schools in Oregon is 16.5:1, so this school has fewer students per teacher. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at Fruitdale Elementary School is about 100%. On average, public schools in Josephine County report 84%.
Fruitdale Elementary School earns an A on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 88% of Oregon public elementary schools.
In Oregon, Fruitdale Elementary School is one of the top 10% of schools on BeatsExpectations, with an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 51.8% compared with a predicted 23.8%.
The school is in Josephine County, where median household income comes to about $60,098, roughly 20% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Josephine County's 28 public schools enroll about 9,944 students and include Fruitdale Elementary School.
A public school about 0.8 miles away, Riverside Elementary School, is the closest to Fruitdale Elementary School. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. In a group of 6 nearby schools with scores, Fruitdale Elementary School ranks 1st on average proficiency.
By NCES locale, the school is City: Small, or inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
Enrollment fell by 25% across 4 years, from 300 in 2020-21 to 225 in 2024-25. The student-to-teacher ratio dropped from 16.7:1 in 2020-21 to 15.0:1 in 2024-25.
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Josephine County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
88,179
Census ACS
Median income
$60,098
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
20%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
28
9,944 students
Quick facts
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Other schools in Three Rivers/Josephine County SD
- Hidden Valley High SchoolHigh · 522 students
- North Valley High SchoolHigh · 424 students
- Fleming Middle SchoolMiddle · 381 students
- Evergreen Elementary SchoolElementary · 378 students
- Lorna Byrne Middle SchoolMiddle · 349 students
- Manzanita Elementary SchoolElementary · 342 students
Other schools in Grants Pass
- Grants Pass High SchoolHigh · 1,658 students
- North Middle SchoolMiddle · 673 students
- South Middle SchoolMiddle · 610 students
- Hidden Valley High SchoolHigh · 522 students
- Redwood Elementary SchoolElementary · 443 students
- North Valley High SchoolHigh · 424 students
Nearby schools
- Riverside Elementary School0.8 mi · 351
- New Bridge High School0.9 mi · 34
- GPFLEX School1.0 mi · 181
- Gladiola High School1.0 mi · 158
- South Middle School1.2 mi · 610
- Grants Pass High School1.7 mi · 1,658
Frequently asked questions
About Fruitdale Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Fruitdale Elementary School?
Fruitdale Elementary School enrolls approximately 225 students in grades KG-05.
Is Fruitdale Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Fruitdale Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
How many teachers does Fruitdale Elementary School have?
Fruitdale Elementary School employs 15 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.0:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Fruitdale Elementary School?
At Fruitdale Elementary School, the student body is approximately 72% White, 18% Hispanic, 1% Black, 2% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Is Fruitdale Elementary School public or private?
Fruitdale Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Three Rivers/Josephine County SD.
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