Grant Community School

Grant Community School is a middle-of-the-pack K-5 school in Salem, Oregon, part of Salem-Keizer SD 24J. The school teaches 444 students in grades K through 5. By comparison, Oregon's public schools average about 321 students each, so Grant Community School sits 38% above that benchmark.

Salem-Keizer SD 24J runs 65 schools in total, collectively educating 37,776 students. Grant Community School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Grant Community School records that 65% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Beyond that, the school records 25% White, 4% Pacific Islander, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 29% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 16.5:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 89% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Grant Community School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 28.1%, the actual is 28.5%, a residual of +0.4 points.

Around the school, census data for Marion County shows median household earnings sit near $77,351, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Marion County runs 111 public schools (combined enrollment of about 53,799 students), of which Grant Community School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Parrish Middle School, around 0.4 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Grant Community School comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 35.2%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Grant Community School has climbed 3%, going from 433 students in 2018 to 444 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 40% to 25%.

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