Gray Middle School

As a moderately sized 6-8 campus in Portland, Oregon, Gray Middle School enrolls 439 students from grades 6 through 8, one of the schools within Portland SD 1J.

Within Portland SD 1J, which oversees 86 schools and 41,894 students, Gray Middle School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Gray Middle School logs that the largest single group is White, at 72% of enrollment. The remainder looks like 10% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 4% Black, 3% Asian.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.5:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 19.3:1, putting Gray Middle School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 44% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Multnomah County (around 75%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

With demographic context factored in, Gray Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.7%, the actual is 60.8%, a residual of +15.1 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Multnomah County put the typical household earns roughly $88,766 per year, about 49% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, Multnomah County runs 169 public schools (combined enrollment of about 81,096 students), of which Gray Middle School is one.

The closest other public school is Rieke Elementary School, roughly 0.5 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Gray Middle School comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 58.1%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Gray Middle School's enrollment has ticked down 18% since 2018, when it stood at 535 (now 439). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 21.8:1 in 2018 to 18.5:1 today.

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