Greenwood Elementary School

Greenwood Elementary School is a modestly sized elementary school in La Grande, Oregon, run under La Grande SD 1. The school serves 234 students in grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 27% below the state mean of about 321.

Within La Grande SD 1, which oversees 5 schools and 2,014 students, Greenwood Elementary School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Greenwood Elementary School lists that White students make up the majority at 78%; the rest comes out to 11% multiracial, 6% Pacific Islander, 4% Hispanic. By comparison, Union County as a whole is about 88% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Greenwood Elementary School reports 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.5:1 average. An estimated 65% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Greenwood Elementary School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 37.5%; actual is 20.3%, a gap of -17.3 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Union County) shows that median household earnings sit near $65,661, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Union County runs 13 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,646 students), of which Greenwood Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: La Grande Middle School, around 1.0 miles off. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Greenwood Elementary School ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 40.8%.

The school occupies a town-based site.

Five-year trend. Greenwood Elementary School's enrollment has edged down 24% since 2018, when it stood at 309 (now 234). The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 19.6:1 in 2018 to 12.9:1 today.

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