Hall Elementary School

Set in Gresham, Oregon, Hall Elementary School is a mid-tier primary school, run under Gresham-Barlow SD 10J. It teaches 346 students across grades K through 5.

Gresham-Barlow SD 10J comprises 20 schools with combined enrollment of 11,345 students; Hall Elementary School is among them.

Demographically, Hall Elementary School logs that the largest single group is Hispanic at 42%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder reads as 34% White, 8% Black, 6% multiracial, 6% Pacific Islander. By comparison, Multnomah County as a whole is about 14% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.5:1 average. Roughly 82% of students at Hall Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Hall Elementary School is in the bottom 10% of Oregon public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 30.8%; Hall Elementary School posts 11.2%, -19.7 points below that line.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Multnomah County) records that the typical household earns roughly $88,766 per year, 49% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Hall Elementary School is one of 169 public schools in Multnomah County (combined enrollment of about 81,096 students).

Nearest neighbor: Walt Morey Middle School, around 0.6 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Hall Elementary School at 7th of 7; the average score across the group is 30.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Hall Elementary School has edged down 19%, going from 428 students in 2018 to 346 in 2025. The White share of enrollment declined from 41% to 34% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 19.8:1 in 2018 to 14.8:1 in 2025.

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